Logan Primus

This post is going to be quite nebulous as any test I know to carry out has done nothing to shed any light on my issue. I will list the games I am having the issue in along with the issues I've been having; League of Legends - Random FPS Drops to around the 20s, Microstutters and full on Black Screening for about 4 seconds with sounds still playing but I can't interact in any way with the KB&M. Ghost Recon Wildlands - Literally regardless of settings Low all the way to Ultra I get probably 4 to 9 FPS at all times, not getting any better or worse with prolonged running and all graphical elements take 5 minutes to slowly pop in. Skyrim Special Edition with Realistic ENB and around 50, mostly texture, mods runs at about 30 FPS (or lower) - I removed the ENB and created a bashed patch and also lowered in game settings and still get the same 20-40 FPS. All 3D games (except minecraft and Skyrim) - random geometry stretching (such as a part of the ground will be stretched into the sky), random GUI elements not showing correctly I overall feel like my FPS performance is awful for a relative good PC based on the games I'm trying to play, it's not that the FPS is low it's the rapid changes in FPS that get to me the most because it's noticable and can last for 30 seconds to a minute each time it starts. Herein lies the problem, I have NO idea what is causing it (I'm not even sure it's a GPU issue, but it seems the most obvious) and I have no idea how to *know* if it my GPU and not another thing causing weird issues like Paging Issues maybe??? I ran a long HDD scan on all my drives (I run most of my games off of my 1TB HDD except for LoL) and my drives are all super healthy according to the test results, I ran the memory scan that windows has built in and got nothing back. That leaves GPU or CPU, but this is where my knowledge on Troubleshooting ends and my question begins; Is there any way I can know for a fact what is causing these issues without wasting a bunch of money I don't have replacing parts? Here are my PC Specs; Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Intel Core i7 6700 (bought "as-new" from eBay) 16GB vengence LPX DDR4 ((I Think 2666Mhz) (bought new)) Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5

Alright, It appears as of now to be fixed. I have Minecraft, Unreal Engine and YouTube all active at the same time and I've attempted to recreated a stutter and.... nothing ? It's seems as of now to be fixed. I did several things in one go because I had to do it in BIOS and didn't want to have to keep going back in and out; - Enabled XMP - Enabled HPET - Disabled LEDs on my motherboard (Don't know why this would be relevant in any way, but doesn't hurt to list it) Inside of Windows, all I did was; - Switch High Definition Audio Driver to Realtek Audio Driver - Disable Adaptive power management in Nvidia Control Panel - Disable CPU Throttling

Hi, thanks for the fast response. Was expecting to be waiting for days to get an answer to this text wall. I've ran LatencyMon in the background for about 10 minutes and It's pretty clear that the culprit is my DirectX Graphics Kernel Driver, there is nothing even close in the DPC Latency column, except my WiFi which when I disabled my DIrectXGraphics Kernel led the Latency Column at nearly 200ms. There were some that were at 80-90, but my WiFi was at 96 when active so is that a regular occurance or should I record those too? I'll report back here once I've done more research for posterity, it was really hard to find any info on this without knowing exactly what I needed to look for.

Hello, I am going to try to explain my problem as clear and concise as possible although looking around on google it's really hard to describe. First off, my GPU is an GTX960 (ASUS Turbo OC 4GB is the exact model) this might be relevant. Around 9 months ago, when Nvidia released the 411.63 Game Ready Drivers I ran into an issue where any monitor plugged into my GPU (Through DVI and HDMI, I assume Display Port too although didn't test this as I don't own a display port cable) would cause microstutters in the audio and visuals on screen whenever ANY activity started, ended and in some cases even randomly during activities. This could be as simple as literally clicking the start button, or typing the toolbars search bar and when I was testing I noticed that clicking cortana caused this to happen 100% of the time (I doubt this is indicative of the issue, but this was a way I could recreate it), I rolled my drivers back to the last drivers I was on which I believe was 382.53 (Although it could've been a few months earlier) and since it's been so long I can't remember if this is what has fixed the issue but I did fix the issue back then (somehow?!) I tried everything 9 months ago; - Fresh Windows Install - New Monitors - New Audio Drivers - Rollback on Game Ready Drivers (with and without DDU) Stupidly, about 3 days ago I decided to give it another shot thinking "Maybe 411.63 was just a bad update for my GPU" and the issue is not only back, but it's *much* worse. I rolled my drivers back to 382.53 and it has not fixed it, I currently have drivers from 2016 installed and the stuttering is still there whenever I do anything. (This leads me to believe rolling back my drivers last time wasn't the fix, but if it wasn't then I don't know what it was?) I'm a (training) games developer and have noticed the problem is especially egregious when working inside of MAYA and Unreal Engine, although when I'm actually playing games I can go anywhere from 5-10 minutes without a stutter happening, and when they do my FPS doesn't dip on the FPS counter. I run dual monitors, one plugged into Intel Integrated Graphics and the other in my GPU, the one plugged into my motherboard does not cause these stutters, I have used it for over 4 hours straight with my second monitor turned on but not doing anything and the audio and visual stutters do not happen. But the stutter does affect both monitors when I'm using the second monitor, for example if I have Youtube playing audio and video on the monitor using Intel Integrated it will stutter while activities are running on the the monitor on the GPU. Usiing precision XOC it appears my GPU is jumping to max GPU and Memory Clock when these stutters happen for the entire time the stutter happens then immediate jumps back to where it was, usually idle or near idle since it's small activities causing it to happen mainly. (I believe this actually comes before the stutter by a split second, as I probably wouldn't be able to see it if it was happening during) I can't give physical examples of the audio and visual stuttering, I simply don't have the tools required to record them, but I would describe them as; anywhere from 0.25 to 1 second of audio and visual lag, during the visual lag all inputs I make still happen so my PC is still fully responsive to all inputs. I really can't live with just one monitor, it completely destroys my productivity and as such I would love if anyone could help me in any way possible.

I currently have no mouse pad (using paper :<) I have a cheap ass USB mouse. Cheap ass packard bell keyboard and no headset. I would very much enjoy this because my current peripheral setup hurts my soul.

I currently have a EVGA GeForce GT 640 Graphics Card so please help me out on this one dudes ;-; I do a lot of stuff that would be nicer with a tasty Graphics card.