Major FPS Drops and Stuttering in Games

[DukesNet]

Had my new gaming PC for a few months and I've noticed a lot of stuttering in my games from Assassins Creed Odyssey to GTA V to Kingdom Come: Deliverance and I've tried most things in the book (full system reinstall, make sure the ram chips are in dual channel mode, driver uninstall and reinstall) to no avail and wondered if anyone here would have any insight to why this was happening. I do have my games installed on a 8TB HDD and my major games installed on a 512GB NVME SSD and there's no difference between that besides the load times so any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X

GPU: Gigabyte RTX 2080

RAM: 2x 8GB 2100mhz DDR4

HDD: 1x 512GB ADATA NVME SSD, 1x 8TB Segate Barracuda 5400RPM 1x 4TB Segate Barracuda 7200RPM   

[Sauron]

Have you made sure that nothing is overheating?

[DukesNet]

9 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Have you made sure that nothing is overheating?

Yep, nothing is overheating, I've had Afterburner running and the CPU has never gone over 50 degrees C seeing as I'm using water cooling and the GPU has never gone over 55 degrees c, it has gone up to 60c on same games but only on the rare occasion 

[Sauron]

1 minute ago, DukesNet said:

Yep, nothing is overheating, I've had Afterburner running and the CPU has never gone over 50 degrees C seeing as I'm using water cooling and the GPU has never gone over 55 degrees c, it has gone up to 60c on same games but only on the rare occasion 

Does the CPU or the GPU show a high load while playing?

[Mr.Mago]

20 minutes ago, DukesNet said:

Had my new gaming PC for a few months and I've noticed a lot of stuttering in my games from Assassins Creed Odyssey to GTA V to Kingdom Come: Deliverance and I've tried most things in the book (full system reinstall, make sure the ram chips are in dual channel mode, driver uninstall and reinstall) to no avail and wondered if anyone here would have any insight to why this was happening. I do have my games installed on a 8TB HDD and my major games installed on a 512GB NVME SSD and there's no difference between that besides the load times so any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X

GPU: Gigabyte RTX 2080

RAM: 2x 8GB 2100mhz DDR4

HDD: 1x 512GB ADATA NVME SSD, 1x 8TB Segate Barracuda 5400RPM 1x 4TB Segate Barracuda 7200RPM   

I mean 2100mhz is pretty damn slow for ryzen and even for intel. That could be the problem

[DukesNet]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

Does the CPU or the GPU show a high load while playing?

GPU can sit anywhere between 57%-80% load when I have everything maxed on the game and CPU wise, no, it sits between 25%-63% load

[Sauron]

Just now, DukesNet said:

CPU wise, no, it sits between 25%-63% load

Is any individual core maxed out? Has the stuttering always been present or just recently?

[DukesNet]

3 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Is any individual core maxed out? Has the stuttering always been present or just recently?

Let me get back to you on if an individual core has been maxed out as I'm away from the house at the moment and it's been present since day one, it never used to bother me until it started playing funny in Bioshock Infinite

[Sauron]

1 minute ago, DukesNet said:

Let me get back to you on if an individual core has been maxed out as I'm away from the house at the moment and it's been present since day one, it never used to bother me until it started playing funny in Bioshock Infinite

if it's been there since day one it might be a problem with your ram. Also 2100MHz is a bit low, it can cause poor performance.

[DukesNet]

5 minutes ago, Sauron said:

if it's been there since day one it might be a problem with your ram. Also 2100MHz is a bit low, it can cause poor performance.

I figured as much, I'm kicking myself for skimping on the RAM, I'm getting 3200MHz RAM come around pay day next week, will that fix one issue if its not the CPU bottlenecking?

[Sauron]

Just now, DukesNet said:

I figured as much, I'm kicking myself for skimping on the RAM, I'm getting 3200MHz RAM come around pay day next week, will that fix one issue if its not the CPU bottlenecking?

Hard to say without testing, you could try overclocking your current ram to see if that makes any difference.

[DukesNet]

Just now, Sauron said:

Hard to say without testing, you could try overclocking your current ram to see if that makes any difference.

How would I go about that? This is the RAM I have in it currently:

https://www.pccasegear.com/products/32848/corsair-vengeance-lpx-cmk16gx4m2a2133c13-16gb-2x8gb-ddr4-black

 

(Prices are in AUD)

[Sauron]

1 minute ago, DukesNet said:

How would I go about that? This is the RAM I have in it currently:

https://www.pccasegear.com/products/32848/corsair-vengeance-lpx-cmk16gx4m2a2133c13-16gb-2x8gb-ddr4-black

 

(Prices are in AUD)

here's a guide https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-memory-tweaking-overclocking-guide/

[Gohardgrandpa]

 I had 2666mhz in mine with a 1800x and I thought it was bad, I ran it at 3000mhz and it made a difference. 

Try to overclock it first, see what happens. You plan on replacing it anyways 

[DukesNet]

So, it’s been a while but I have some results!

 

So I overclocked the RAM from 2133mhz to 3000mhz, installed a second SSD (512GB EVO), got rid of NVIDIA GeForce Experience, tweaked some settings in NVIDIA Control Panel, disabled some Windows Services and started using Intelligent Standby List Cleaner.

 

WELL SWEET LORDY BABY JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH!

 

The amount of games that I can run on either a solid 30 or 60fps has tripled in an instant! Guess it was me been stupid with how I was changing settings!

 

I have ordered in 32GB 3200mhz memory to accommodate for Final Fantasy XV been a memory hog at 12GB (without the 4K Texture Pack) and plan to overclock it to 3466mhz (which is the max the mobo supports)

 

Thanks again for all your help! It was highly appreciated!