Stuttering after GPU upgrade

[smitje08]

I just upgraded my GPU from an AMD R9 390 to an Nvidia RTX 2060. Now I have stuttering on all of my games where there was none before. I performed a DDU in safe mode before swapping the cards. I've tried reinstalling the newest drivers and updating my bios to the latest firmware. I don't see any overheating issues. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

 

Specs:

i5 6600k oc at 4.4

asus z170-a

16gb ddr4 2133

windows 10 64bit

[crosstiger]

Does it also stutter while performing a benchmark like Unigine ?

[Mira Yurizaki]

Are the average frame rates better? What are the minimums? If the minimums are close to what you had in the R9 390 and the average you're getting now is much greater, then you'll start to see stuttering.

 

But otherwise, you could check for hitches by monitoring the CPU and GPU usage in say MSI Afterburner or GPU-z. (I believe the latest one has CPU usage monitoring). GPU-z is also helpful to figure out when hitches happen, why the GPU's performance dropped.

[smitje08]

I used 3DMark and I didn't notice any stuttering when running Timespy. My minimums and averages are much higher than the R9 390. I don't understand why higher averages would cause stuttering. I'll check out afterburner and gpu-z. Thanks for your help.

[d3adc3II]

5 hours ago, smitje08 said:

I used 3DMark and I didn't notice any stuttering when running Timespy. My minimums and averages are much higher than the R9 390. I don't understand why higher averages would cause stuttering. I'll check out afterburner and gpu-z. Thanks for your help.

Framerate is not the correct method to monitor for stuttering.

 

What you need is enable log for frametime from Afterburner ( remember to change to graph view). Run in and play the game, take a look at the graph, it tells you alot about the stuttering.

[smitje08]

So a bit more information. I get massive stuttering in Metro 2033, but none in Wolfenstein. After using the monitoring in afterburner, I found frametimes in Metro were all over the place, going as low as 9ms all the way to 100ms. Wolfenstein was a consistent 18-19ms frametimes. I'm trying to correlate this to other metrics in afterburner but I don't really know what I'm looking for. GPU usage is overall higher in Metro. Memory usage is higher in Wolfenstein. Core clocks are about the same. 

[jones177]

On 1/29/2019 at 11:20 PM, smitje08 said:

I just upgraded my GPU from an AMD R9 390 to an Nvidia RTX 2060. Now I have stuttering on all of my games where there was none before. I performed a DDU in safe mode before swapping the cards. I've tried reinstalling the newest drivers and updating my bios to the latest firmware. I don't see any overheating issues. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

 

Specs:

i5 6600k oc at 4.4

asus z170-a

16gb ddr4 2133

windows 10 64bit

I had that with the first 6 months of ownership of a GTX 1080.

I promised myself that I would not be an early adopter again. Then I did the same thing with RTX. 

 

It is safe to say that Nvidia tests with the same software we do. If Timespy is running ok it is most likely a driver/hardware issue. The hardware not being your video card.

 

When I have gotten stuttering I put the card in another computer and usually it will works perfectly. I have found that the culprit most of the time is the motherboard. Upgrading the motherboard bios is the first thing I do. Buying a new motherboard is the last thing I do. 

 

There are some other things that can cause stuttering. 

One is i/o. This happened to me when I tried to use a 7200rpm HD. My high end CPUs and GPUs needed data a lot quicker than it could provide in open world games.  Since this is an open world thing all you have to do is play a non open world game to test. 

Another is the CPU not being able to meet the needs of the GPU.  This is easy to test because all you have to do is drop the resolution and texture quality. If it stops stuttering you know it is time to upgrade.

  

My RTX card is under performing in games but its 3DMark scores are fantastic. It is slowly getting better and I expect it will be up to speed by the next driver update. 

 

 

[smitje08]

8 hours ago, jones177 said:

I had that with the first 6 months of ownership of a GTX 1080.

I promised myself that I would not be an early adopter again. Then I did the same thing with RTX. 

 

It is safe to say that Nvidia tests with the same software we do. If Timespy is running ok it is most likely a driver/hardware issue. The hardware not being your video card.

 

When I have gotten stuttering I put the card in another computer and usually it will works perfectly. I have found that the culprit most of the time is the motherboard. Upgrading the motherboard bios is the first thing I do. Buying a new motherboard is the last thing I do. 

 

There are some other things that can cause stuttering. 

One is i/o. This happened to me when I tried to use a 7200rpm HD. My high end CPUs and GPUs needed data a lot quicker than it could provide in open world games.  Since this is an open world thing all you have to do is play a non open world game to test. 

Another is the CPU not being able to meet the needs of the GPU.  This is easy to test because all you have to do is drop the resolution and texture quality. If it stops stuttering you know it is time to upgrade.

  

My RTX card is under performing in games but its 3DMark scores are fantastic. It is slowly getting better and I expect it will be up to speed by the next driver update. 

 

 

I have my motherboard updated to the latest BIOS. It is version 3802 released in 4/27/18. I did this after I installed the new card.

 

I did test with Metro 2033 on low settings and I was still getting stuttering. So I don't think it's a CPU issue. I could try moving this particular game to my SSD to see if I still have issues. 

 

I do agree that it is likely a driver issue that could be fixed with future updates. I will probably keep testing for a bit. I'm not really dying to play  Metro 2033 anyway, but it's good for testing since it seems to have the worst stuttering. 

 

Thanks for your help.

[jones177]

I installed Metro 2033 to test the RTX 2080 ti.  I had to use Directx 10 to get a smooth experience.

The game also has scripting issues when run on Directx 11.

 

I currently have the game install on my 1080 ti SLI rig. It does run better on Pascal but not by much.

 

 

[smitje08]

On 2/2/2019 at 10:49 AM, jones177 said:

I installed Metro 2033 to test the RTX 2080 ti.  I had to use Directx 10 to get a smooth experience.

The game also has scripting issues when run on Directx 11.

 

I currently have the game install on my 1080 ti SLI rig. It does run better on Pascal but not by much.

 

 

Thanks for sharing your experiencing. After playing some other games, I found I do get good performance. Dark souls 3, Deus Ex: Mankind divided, Anthem Demo (surprisingly). If I find stuttering, I think I need to take it with a grain of salt.