Stuttering in game. (The Division)

soundesciple · 13 Mar 2017 at 12:28

Hi guys. In playing the division at the moment and getting a lot of lag/stuttering it runs fine untill the action hots up then it practically freezes for about 3-4 seconds.
It always happens when there is a lot of people together all fighting in one place.
Could this be ii need more memory?
Specs are......
sandy b 2600k
Asrock z68 extream gen 4 mobo
EVGA ftw GTX1080 not overclocked.
2x 4gb G-Skill ddr31600 memory
Samsung 500gb ssd drive.

Device manager reports 6.0 gig used when playing game.
V-synk on 60fps.
Any advice would be great.

wedrum · 13 Mar 2017 at 12:31

Turn vsync off and try that

soundesciple · 13 Mar 2017 at 12:46

Thank for the reply. I tried that and its the same.

wedrum · 13 Mar 2017 at 12:47

Have you recently changed to the 1080?

I had stuttering coming from a nvidia card to a amd card.

A fresh install of windows fixed it for me.

Rroff · 13 Mar 2017 at 12:48

I've seen people mention in other threads that the game doesn't like overlays much if you have any in use - especially with the DX12 renderer.

soundesciple · 13 Mar 2017 at 14:22

wedrum said:
Have you recently changed to the 1080?

I had stuttering coming from a nvidia card to a amd card.

A fresh install of windows fixed it for me.

Ive had the card from release date with no problems. All other games look fine. ie the witcher/ black opps 2 / metro 2033.

soundesciple · 13 Mar 2017 at 14:26

I have ordered another 8gb of ram. If its still the same i with do a fresh install of windows 10 pro. I usually do a fresh install every year or so to clean out the junk.

Silent_Scone · 16 Mar 2017 at 07:05

If using DX12, don't. It's broken in 1.6 for some NV cards.

prjwebb · 16 Mar 2017 at 13:46

What is your CPU usage in game? My 6600K gets up to 100% usage at times and I get some stuttering.

ScoTTyBEEE · 17 Mar 2017 at 23:00

Yeah I've seen 100% on my [email protected] in the division. No stuttering mind.

soundesciple · 18 Mar 2017 at 08:53

So i couldn't wait for tha ram to arrive so i did a re-install of windows and that looks like its sorted the problem no stuttering now.
Checked my cpu usage and the highest i saw was 90%
so @ wedrum it looks like i was in the same boat as you as i came from a amd 6970 to a Nvidia 1080. Even though i used the driver cleaner before installing the new card.
Thanks all for the help.

wedrum · 18 Mar 2017 at 09:24

good stuff.

yeh sometimes its best just to wipe and start again.
some bit of old drivers must get stuck and interfere with the new card.

the extra 8gb ram will help too when it arrives.

soundesciple · 18 Mar 2017 at 10:19

haha cool. just got in from getting the car MOT'd and the ram has arrived, just popped it in and all is good to go.

opethdisciple · 18 Mar 2017 at 16:28

Sounds like CPU bottleneck to me.

soundesciple · 18 Mar 2017 at 22:25

Everything running fine now aftrer the windows refresh and the new ram added, I also ran The Division benchmark after installing the new ram and it reported highest cpu usage was 75% and average fps was 105 with v-sync off so as long as theres no more stuttering im happy with that.

prjwebb · 19 Mar 2017 at 19:05

yeah my cpu usage is fine in the benchmark but if i watch it in actual gameplay it often hits 100%

Smffy · 21 Mar 2017 at 10:48

Having had similar problems, disabling and deleting the Nvida shader cache sorted it out. It lives in temp files so potentially why a fresh install sorts it out.

soundesciple · 21 Mar 2017 at 13:22

Smffy said:
Having had similar problems, disabling and deleting the Nvida shader cache sorted it out. It lives in temp files so potentially why a fresh install sorts it out.

Good to know, i will try that if i get the stuttering again. Thanks.

prjwebb · 21 Mar 2017 at 17:21

Getting rid of AI Suite III today has improved things for me quite a bit.