Terrible minecraft performance, stuttering

[henro1232]

Hey,

Recently I've decided to pick minecraft up again and the performance I get is truly terrible. First of all, I'm running a 2560x1440 monitor @144hz, with gsync enabled, settings shown in screenshot. However, in game, I am getting fps of 40-120 while just walking around. Even when my fps is 100-120, it feels stuttery like I have a lower framerate (gsync is still on, and in other games e.g. sottr it feels smooth with a highly fluctuating fps). 

I am not using optifine because in 1.14.4 (the latest version of optifine) I get short fps dips when crossing chunk borders which is incredibly irritating. I have tried absolutely everything and I don't know what to do at this point.

I've attached a video of the issue, although it isn't quite as apparent as the video is only 60fps and my monitor is 144hz and also it's not so great quality wise. 

 

I just feel like with my hardware I should be getting way higher fps in a game like minecraft, and other people with similar hardware seem to easily be able to pull 250-300fps.

 

I hope you can help,

thanks,

Henry

 

https://www.filehosting.org/file/details/842215/2020-01-13%2021-25-49.mp4 (video as its over 20mb)

[SpookyCitrus]

If you have G-Sync enabled turn off VSync in the control panel.

[henro1232]

Will try this now. Thanks for the quick reply 

[henro1232]

4 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

If you have G-Sync enabled turn off VSync in the control panel.

Yeah good for the future so thanks a lot but didn't help with the bad performance. Also (maybe unrelated maybe not) sometimes when I do something seemingly random, like minimize chrome or open spotify, my monitor or the fps dips down to 60fps, then sometimes goes away sometimes doesn't. This occurs in the minecraft launcher, and although the fps will be over 60 sometimes I feel like i'm only ever getting 60. very weird. I'll check with my monitor's in built fps counter. Still doesn't explain the bad performance in general. Surely I should be getting more fps than that in minecraft with an i5 8600k and an rtx 2070

[Stu_Bear]

What kind of hard drive do you have ?  What's going on in task manager ?  What else is running ?

[SpookyCitrus]

39 minutes ago, techaddict_12 said:

Yeah good for the future so thanks a lot but didn't help with the bad performance. Also (maybe unrelated maybe not) sometimes when I do something seemingly random, like minimize chrome or open spotify, my monitor or the fps dips down to 60fps, then sometimes goes away sometimes doesn't. This occurs in the minecraft launcher, and although the fps will be over 60 sometimes I feel like i'm only ever getting 60. very weird. I'll check with my monitor's in built fps counter. Still doesn't explain the bad performance in general. Surely I should be getting more fps than that in minecraft with an i5 8600k and an rtx 2070

Do you have G-sync set to all windows or only full screen applications? There are two options, if you have G-Sync on the option that is for all windows then it will match your FPS on what ever window you have as primary, so if you're in chrome or an application that only gets 30fps then G-Sync will set your refresh rate to thirty, so have it on the option that is only for fullscreen applications if it's not already. Minecraft can be finicky even on high end systems if you have it on max settings with mass chunks and things like that even a 9900k 2080ti system will have drops so if you're on absolute max or close lower the chunks and render distance a bit and see if it improves.

[MadAnt250]

3 hours ago, techaddict_12 said:

Surely I should be getting more fps than that in minecraft with an i5 8600k and an rtx 2070

Maybe it could be the chunk render distance.

[henro1232]

18 hours ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Do you have G-sync set to all windows or only full screen applications? There are two options, if you have G-Sync on the option that is for all windows then it will match your FPS on what ever window you have as primary, so if you're in chrome or an application that only gets 30fps then G-Sync will set your refresh rate to thirty, so have it on the option that is only for fullscreen applications if it's not already. Minecraft can be finicky even on high end systems if you have it on max settings with mass chunks and things like that even a 9900k 2080ti system will have drops so if you're on absolute max or close lower the chunks and render distance a bit and see if it improves.

Right. I think I've found the issue, but I don't know what's causing it. (oh and my G-Sync was set to fullscreen applications only). When in minecraft, in fullscreen, my fps is capped at 60. This is why it is stuttery at higher framerates. Any ideas why this is happening? It is not capped when in windowed mode, but when in fullscreen I just get capped at 60fps.

[henro1232]

And my maximum framerate in the minecraft settings is unlimited, and the resolution set to current.

[SpookyCitrus]

17 minutes ago, techaddict_12 said:

Right. I think I've found the issue, but I don't know what's causing it. (oh and my G-Sync was set to fullscreen applications only). When in minecraft, in fullscreen, my fps is capped at 60. This is why it is stuttery at higher framerates. Any ideas why this is happening? It is not capped when in windowed mode, but when in fullscreen I just get capped at 60fps.

Is your refresh rate in windows display settings not set to 144hz? Right click on desktop, select display settings, advanced display settings, display adapter properties for your monitor, monitor tab. If it's set to 60hz in that then that's your issue, even if you set it to 144hz in nvidia control panel it can sometimes not go through in Windows. 

[henro1232]

Yes definitely. 144hz works everywhere else, in every other game and while just in windows etc. And when minecraft is not in fullscreen. Very odd.

6 hours ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Is your refresh rate in windows display settings not set to 144hz? Right click on desktop, select display settings, advanced display settings, display adapter properties for your monitor, monitor tab. If it's set to 60hz in that then that's your issue, even if you set it to 144hz in nvidia control panel it can sometimes not go through in Windows. 

 

[MadAnt250]

1 hour ago, techaddict_12 said:

144hz works everywhere else, in every other game and while just in windows etc. And when minecraft is not in fullscreen. Very odd.

Chunk render distance?

[henro1232]

Okay the problem seems to have fixed itself on its own. Thanks for everyone's help, much appreciated