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Severe Stutters

chrismox

chrismox

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I have had a 7900 GTO for a while which has performed flawlessly until the last few days.

For some reason, I've started getting stutters in almost every game now. The games run fine for a second or so and then briefly chug, run fine, chug and so on.

I have tried updating drivers, v-sync is disabled in the control panel and that's about all I can think of.

Any ideas?
 
I had something similare recently where the vents on my GPU cooler had become blocked by sackloads of messy cables. Tidied it up and cleaned up the rig in general and it stopped happening. So for me it was a heat issue/ throttling.
 
Strange, just tried running 3DMark and everything seemed fine. Temperature never rose above 60 and no stutters.

TDU is the worst of the culprits and I'm aware that others have had issues with stuttering in this game but it was running fine a while back...
 
Olly said:
anti virus scans and updates, same with spyware software, windows updates ?
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lol its funny isnt it. if theres a problem always do them. however tbh, i dont think i have had a problem where something like that has fixed it. heh
 
what i meant was, are any of these running at the time of playing the game ?

In other words, has norton started a full scan, has windows decided to download updates, whilst the game is being played.

Long shot I know, but its happened to me.
 
Right, I've defragged, disabled anti-virus etc. and it made no difference, until...

I had enabled the temperature warning in the Nvidia control panel and it came up with a warning with a few second of playing TDU (the control panel is set at 110 degrees).

So, I installed RivaTuner to monitor the temps and now, suddenly, I get no stutters. The temperature seems to peak at 100 degrees - seem a little high?

I'm only using a Reserator for cooling, maybe it needs some maintenance but has caused me no problems in the past.
 
chrismox said:
Right, I've defragged, disabled anti-virus etc. and it made no difference, until...

I had enabled the temperature warning in the Nvidia control panel and it came up with a warning with a few second of playing TDU (the control panel is set at 110 degrees).

So, I installed RivaTuner to monitor the temps and now, suddenly, I get no stutters. The temperature seems to peak at 100 degrees - seem a little high?

I'm only using a Reserator for cooling, maybe it needs some maintenance but has caused me no problems in the past.
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So it's one-nil to me! Thought it sounded just like my heat related issue. Just got one of those little blower things and plugged it in beneath my 8800 and temps dropped another 10C.

Must be something you can do on the cooling side of things? Mine started throttling at 90C so aim somewhere below that for max load (just as a guide).
 
BlastRadius said:
So it's one-nil to me! Thought it sounded just like my heat related issue. Just got one of those little blower things and plugged it in beneath my 8800 and temps dropped another 10C.

Must be something you can do on the cooling side of things? Mine started throttling at 90C so aim somewhere below that for max load (just as a guide).
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Yep, you win round 1. Which little blower thingy is that then? Is it an exhaust fan to take the air out of the case?
 
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