Why do some games micro freeze.

Tell us your specs, what game, have you googled, do others have this problem, have your updated drivers, have you tried turning audio off and/or lowering settings?

As I think was said, it could be complex to pinpoint to answer but generally it will be do to with loading resources, the relationship between gpu, cpu and system memory can be complex. Allocating and deallocating memory blocks, the memory manager(os) has to constantly search through all memory to find a suitable block of memory if not it resorts to virtual memory(paging) where the hd is used instead of system memory, this is slower and could result in the symptoms described, but it could be a line or two of badly implemented code, some overly complex shader trying to run on the gpu, or some overly large audio file trying to be fetched by the gpu from memory. Generally it's probably some bad coding doing it.
 
jsmoke said:
Tell us your specs, what game, have you googled, do others have this problem, have your updated drivers, have you tried turning audio off and/or lowering settings?

As I think was said, it could be complex to pinpoint to answer but generally it will be do to with loading resources, the relationship between gpu, cpu and system memory can be complex. Allocating and deallocating memory blocks, the memory manager(os) has to constantly search through all memory to find a suitable block of memory if not it resorts to virtual memory(paging) where the hd is used instead of system memory, this is slower and could result in the symptoms described, but it could be a line or two of badly implemented code, some overly complex shader trying to run on the gpu, or some overly large audio file trying to be fetched by the gpu from memory. Generally it's probably some bad coding doing it.
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CPU: i7 2600 @ 3.40GHZ - GPU: MSi 680 Power Edition - RAM: 8GB Samsung Green - HARDRIVE: 2TB -

Most games i google have a problem but the fixes dont elimate it, others i google the problem and dont find similar symptoms
 
There's 3 settings that seem to work best for different people depending on their hardware.

Off in BIOS, Off in Windows.
On in BIOS, Off in Windows.
On in BIOS, On in Windows.

You should be able to find the setting in your BIOS for High Precision Event Timer.

It's enabled by default in Windows I think but to enable it in windows use this command in an elevated command prompt:

bcdedit /set useplatformclock true

to disable it use:

bcdedit /deletevalue useplatformclock
 
Ayahuasca said:
There's 3 settings that seem to work best for different people depending on their hardware.

Off in BIOS, Off in Windows.
On in BIOS, Off in Windows.
On in BIOS, On in Windows.

You should be able to find the setting in your BIOS for High Precision Event Timer.

It's enabled by default in Windows I think but to enable it in windows use this command in an elevated command prompt:

bcdedit /set useplatformclock true

to disable it use:

bcdedit /deletevalue useplatformclock
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Is there any benefit or drawback to disabling or enabling this, just so i can understand what i'm getting my hands into?

I think this problem has already existed since i made the rig years and years ago, ive just never fully noticed it til now
 
Well the benefits can be fixing microstutter, the drawbacks are it might make it worse but then you just revert to the previous setting.

I'm using Off/Off at the moment.
 
Ayahuasca said:
There's 3 settings that seem to work best for different people depending on their hardware.

Off in BIOS, Off in Windows.
On in BIOS, Off in Windows.
On in BIOS, On in Windows.

You should be able to find the setting in your BIOS for High Precision Event Timer.

It's enabled by default in Windows I think but to enable it in windows use this command in an elevated command prompt:

bcdedit /set useplatformclock true

to disable it use:

bcdedit /deletevalue useplatformclock
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when trying to command prompt disable it was saying it was an error, someone said that means its already off.

I'll play a game of Dota or something and send the results back.
 
mxoagentjohnson said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn6dF65osCk&list=UURutJ8I80dfgbhnTS0ZclIg

Heres a video, showing how it happens more so the higher my fps is most of the time.
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Not sure what I'm looking at there to be honest bud. Trying to show framerate probs is never easy on YouTube, too many variables going on (what framerate did you film at, and youtube playback framerate discrepancies, **** quality video, etc).

Is it constant tiny judders as you pan around the game field that I'm supposed to be seeing? Or something else?
 
Unlocked, the framerate is beyond 120, so why it stutters and micro freezes when hitting 119 is what the problem is, if i lock it lower though it doesnt happen.

It's starting to become a pain, as what was the point of getting a 120hz monitor when i can spew out 200fps on some games and then get problems achivieving that framerate without uneven frames, then locking it only to get micro freezes.

It still micro freezes at unlocked framerates.
 
Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but have you tried wiping your graphics drivers totally clean with something like DDU and then reinstalling the latest driver?
 
arc@css said:
Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but have you tried wiping your graphics drivers totally clean with something like DDU and then reinstalling the latest driver?
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I'll give it a shot, but i've never done a graphics card wipe before, so i'm a bit worried.

When i reinstalled windows the problem persisted so i dont think its that unfortunatly :(

Also never apologize for helping out a fellow overclocker :) every suggestion is one i appreciate.

It's not game breaking, i can imagine some games have more problems than others, but it sure as hell is extremely frustrating :/
 
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I sympathize about the stuttering; I think that would drive most gamers to distraction.

Don't worry about wiping your video card drivers. :)
 
It isnt like a rampant horrible stuttering, some games have it when i turn around quickly like Borderlands 2, others like Sleeping Dogs (which is definately more graphically intensive and better looking) runs like absoloute butter :)

I'm just confused why everything in my rig is working how it should yet i get some games momentarily pause when something ever bloody happens o_O

I get some games do it cause they're auto loading or auto saving, like F3AR, but like, how do people play Skyrim or Fallout 3 without noticing it every time you enter a new grid, id be driven insane by it.
 
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