Video Stutter

[Demonic Spector]

Since June last year I have had this stutter appear in games. What it is is my game will be running fine. 60FPS with VSYNC or above that without VSYNC on, then randomly it will drop down 3 or more FPS (says the FPS counter in the corner) for what feels like a quarter second and then jump back up and it feels like a stutter. Some games don't do it for a bit but when they do start (one game took 30 hours in to start) nothing stops it and it's consistent happening every 5 to 10 minutes and it is annoying. I have tried stupidly replacing tons of my PC's hardware, Restarting and shutting down my PC, Reinstalling windows, using windows factory reset, fully wiping any and all Graphics drivers and reinstalling, Nvidia driver rollbacks, I know its not my Internet somehow because when my buddy comes over he connects his ethernet cable to my switch (unless it is and I am dumb enough to think this invalidates it, but his PC is now comprised of those old parts that I gave him after I realized they weren't at fault), reseating my CPU and pretty much rebuilding my PC with the parts from when this started and the new ones. I have spent almost a year trying to figure this out but never came to this forum and decided to give it a shot. However it does decrease in frequency when I remove any items from any other PCIe slot, but I don't think this is the main issue because for the first 18 months of this PCs life it had a Vive Wireless card in it and no issue till last year in June. I have since swapped it out with a Elgato 4k60 pro internal game capture card in December 2020 and it still continues but it still could be I guess. Please if I am an absolute dunce let me know, but I can't figure it out.

 

Edit: I forgot my specs

Original

CPU: i7 8700k

MOBO: EVGA Classified K Z370

GPU: 2080 TI FE not RMA

RAM: 64GB GSkill Trident Z 3466MHz (4x16) (yes overkill by a lot I know)

Storage: 500GB M.2 Samsung 970 Evo (boot), 1TB Mushkin Reactor SSD, 250GB Seagate SSD 

 

Now
CPU: i9 10900k
MOBO: EVGA Z470 FTW

GPU: 2080 TI FE ( I RMAed my card)

RAM: 32GB Corsair Dominator 3200MHz (4x8)

Storage: Samsung 870 EVO 1TB (boot), Samsung 870 EVO 2TB, Samsung 860 EVO 4TB, 250GB Seagate SSD

 

[fuzz0r]

Which motherboards are you using?

There are a couple things you can try.

Update your motherboards BIOS - see if that helps. Just make sure not to interrupt the process because then you will brick your motherboard. UNLESS it has dual-bios. Again which is why it's important to know what motherboard you have.

 

Another thing you could try is to see if XMP is enabled. I always enable XMP on my intel rigs as I've had problems just like that with my intel setups without it.

Although I've been told that, at least in the past, enabling XMP voids warranty on Intel parts.

 

So yeah, it's kind of like pick your poison, but you now have some options.

[Demonic Spector]

XMP Is enabled, wasn't always but I did use it on both sets of RAM eventually and I updated the post to say my motherboards.