DOOM Eternal stutter with a CPU swap

polski8bit · November 18, 2020

Hello and as the title says. I've been playing DOOM Eternal since launch and back then, I had a Pentium G4560 as my CPU, paired with a GTX 1060 6GB from Zotac, together with 8GB of 2133Mhz of RAM. I had no issues playing on the High settings, duh, later on with a few patches it went actually up from locked 60 (no matter the settings and v-sync) to even a 100.
However, I recently swapped my CPU to a Ryzen 3 3100. The rest of my hardware is the same (except for the motherboard of course). And that's where I ran into a terrible stutter in Eternal - it does hit over a 100FPS even with the same settings (High), however it just stutter every 2 or 3 seconds, making the game basically unplayable. Other games work very well, such as Far Cry 5, that is sitting well over 60FPS on High with no stutter. DOOM 2016 also does not stutter, basically any other game I own that is not a complete optimization mess is working fine. All my games are on an HDD.
So what may be causing this? I thought maybe RAM and while I do intend to swap it at some point, it also wouldn't make much sense, since it was working well until the motherboard and CPU swap, together with other games working well afterwards. I tried turning off any Overlays, tweaked some settings in Nvidia Control Panel and it didn't help.

Zando_ · November 18, 2020

Have you installed AMD's chipset drivers? Usually Ryzen CPUs/mobos need those to behave properly. Assuming that's a single 8GB DIMM it'll hurt performance for your chip, but it shouldn't cause stutters like that AFAIK.

polski8bit · November 18, 2020

27 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Have you installed AMD's chipset drivers? Usually Ryzen CPUs/mobos need those to behave properly. Assuming that's a single 8GB DIMM it'll hurt performance for your chip, but it shouldn't cause stutters like that AFAIK.

Considering the fact that it works properly in other games, I don't think that's the case. Thanks for the reply tho.

I actually found the solution on Steam forums that is really dumb. If anyone else will have that sort of problem, in my case turning off "Present From Compute" option in Video settings fixed the issue.