Asus Strix RTX 2080 Ti OC random huge fps drops and stutters? what!?

[Ektelion]

I am usually playing with capped fps at 110~120 on my 3440x1440p 120hz monitor but at some occasions for no apparent reason it drops to 60-70 making stutters on the screen.
I thought this was problem from the game itself but i tested in few different ones and the problem is still there.
I have a theory it might be driver related but after playing the first day with no stutters or anything like that makes me think there's something else.

System specs

Windows 10 64bit
I7 8700K
RTX 2080 Ti Asus strix Oc
2X8 G.skill Trident Z RGB ram 3200 mhz 16Cas
RMX 850 Gold PSU Corsair
H150i Pro RGB 360 Radiator Corsair Cooler
9x fans in the entire systems 3 being exhaust
Alienware 34 Gsync Ips 3440x1440p monitor 120 Hz
1TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD
500GB Samsung 970 EVO m.2 
1TB Western Digital memory ( saving purposes only )

The highest temp my card ever reached was 65, usually running idle at 40.
The only thing i noticed and found a little odd in the diagram was the memory Clock droping and increasing rapidly from numbers to 800 and 12000, might be the issue i don't know, all i am ever hoping is this to not be a hardware related issue because i waited damn 3 months for this RTX to arrive and i was playing with onboard graphgics for so long, after getting it in my hands, now this?

[Majestic]

Are you using Vsync?

[Ektelion]

1 minute ago, Majestic said:

Are you using Vsync?

No only Gsync

[Majestic]

Just now, Ektelion said:

No only Gsync

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/894384-stutters-framedrops-lag-how-to-provide-detailed-information-with-your-bottleneck-question-as-well-as-a-few-solutions/

 

You can skip the first half of the post. I'd like to see the issue in real-time with some afterburner plots. Follow the guide from "collecting the information" please, and dump the .hml file in a post and tag me. You can also skip the DXDIAG part, since you already listed your system. 

[jones177]

Hi

 

If the drop is CPU related your 2080 ti will not save you.

Also if it is a CPU drop G-sync won't save you either.

 

CPU usage can be deceptive. You must see what individual cores are doing and know how many cores a game uses to determine how much usage will drop your frame rate.

 

It is early days for the GTX 2080 ti. I am not expecting overall good performance until about March of next year.  On some of the games I play the performance is not much different than the 1080 ti it replaced.   

 

On synthetic benches my card is doing fine. My ingames benches tell me that the card is all over the place.

 

If you can collect good evidence of your issue submit it to the Geforce driver forum. 

 

Also If you can mention a game you are having issues with maybe someone can test it for you.   

 

[Ektelion]

Apparently I did some search in the Nvidia forums and there are many people who have the same problem. 

 

It looks like it's driver related issue, thank God. 

 

I have tested destiny 2, world of WARcraft, PUBG, Battlefield V, Black ops 4, the problem is everywhere, I usually play capped at 120 fps (that's the maximum my monitor can go)

in this resolution, it's an overkill, but the drops to 60 from 120 all of a sudden are are technically not possible considering the power of this Gpu 

[Majestic]

42 minutes ago, Ektelion said:

Apparently I did some search in the Nvidia forums and there are many people who have the same problem. 

 

It looks like it's driver related issue, thank God. 

 

I have tested destiny 2, world of WARcraft, PUBG, Battlefield V, Black ops 4, the problem is everywhere, I usually play capped at 120 fps (that's the maximum my monitor can go)

in this resolution, it's an overkill, but the drops to 60 from 120 all of a sudden are are technically not possible considering the power of this Gpu 

It might not be. But unless you post me that data, I can't help you.

 

People tend to forget that 80% of the market is Nvidia, so any issue that crops up is likely to have the majority of people having Nvidia cards. So it easily gets conflated as a driver issue.

[Ektelion]

1 hour ago, Majestic said:

It might not be. But unless you post me that data, I can't help you.

 

People tend to forget that 80% of the market is Nvidia, so any issue that crops up is likely to have the majority of people having Nvidia cards. So it easily gets conflated as a driver issue.

I am at work now, I will try and do it later when I go home, thanks for the help 

[SSJGodemis]

You have a 8700k. So your CPU is more than powerful enough. Its either a driver issue or a G-Sync issue. Turn off G-Sync and see if the issue continues to persist. 

[xg32]

5 hours ago, Ektelion said:

I am at work now, I will try and do it later when I go home, thanks for the help 

the 20 series is known to have gsync/multi monitor, so turn off ur second monitor if you have one, if the problem persists, turn off gsync and use vsync.

 

The problem is monitor specific with the drivers.

[Ektelion]

On 12/9/2018 at 7:52 PM, Majestic said:

It might not be. But unless you post me that data, I can't help you.

 

People tend to forget that 80% of the market is Nvidia, so any issue that crops up is likely to have the majority of people having Nvidia cards. So it easily gets conflated as a driver issue.

 you can see the stutter at 1:47 

[Majestic]

6 hours ago, Ektelion said:

 you can see the stutter at 1:47 

Please follow the guideline, I think I was very specific about that. 

[Ektelion]

7 minutes ago, Majestic said:

Please follow the guideline, I think I was very specific about that. 

ah you need the graph? trying out to see how it works to copy it to you, will check the guide again

[Majestic]

1 minute ago, Ektelion said:

ah you need the graph? trying out to see how it works to copy it to you, will check the guide again

it creates an .hml file, you can just post it here. Read carefully what dataPID's I require.

[Ektelion]

4 hours ago, Majestic said:

it creates an .hml file, you can just post it here. Read carefully what dataPID's I require.

 

 

HardwareMonitoring.hml

[Majestic]

I see the stutters in the hardware.hml but not clear indication that your hardware is causing this issue. I see no drops in CPU clocks. No cores hit 100%, no throttling of any kind. No memory usage increases that would indicate a high amount of assets being loaded in.

 

Seeing as it's also not in multiplayer you can rule out latency spikes/packetloss as well. So i'm thinking it's just engine specific, or some background utility like a antivirus causing a high i/o spike that you can'd detect on these plots. 

 

Also note that the very monitoring you use for measuring performance can cause this. Are you always running afterburner?

[Ektelion]

4 hours ago, Majestic said:

I see the stutters in the hardware.hml but not clear indication that your hardware is causing this issue. I see no drops in CPU clocks. No cores hit 100%, no throttling of any kind. No memory usage increases that would indicate a high amount of assets being loaded in.

 

Seeing as it's also not in multiplayer you can rule out latency spikes/packetloss as well. So i'm thinking it's just engine specific, or some background utility like a antivirus causing a high i/o spike that you can'd detect on these plots. 

 

Also note that the very monitoring you use for measuring performance can cause this. Are you always running afterburner?

Nope, almost never, I downloaded it when you asked me to do it, I never even knew it existed in the first place.

 

I saw in nvidia forums there is a big thread going out about this, more people have stutter problems but I am no expert after all to tell. 

 

If you check hardware Canucks video here at 11:43 

 he also has a stutter for a brief second, could this really be a driver issue? 

[Majestic]

1 minute ago, Ektelion said:

Nope, almost never, I downloaded it when you asked me to do it, I never even knew it existed in the first place.

 

I saw in nvidia forums there is a big thread going out about this, more people have stutter problems but I am no expert after all to tell. 

 

If you check hardware Canucks video here at 11:43 

 he also has a stutter for a brief second, could this really be a driver issue? 

No i think it just runs like a turd on all machines. Just EA not giving a fuck.