Frametime Spikes causing a brief stutter on High End Gaming Laptop

CalebWorthy · May 30, 2023

Hello, making this thread to find some people smarter than me that can solve this issue for me.

Here's the barebones issue.

Frametime Spikes.

I'm not new to computers so I'll try to explain this as intelligently as possible.

I also dealt with this issue on a Gaming Desktop I build so I'm not new to this issue.

This is a brand new gaming laptop

SPECS: G733PZ Asus Rog Strix SCAR17 LAPTOP

OS: WIN11

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX with Radeon Graphics, 2501 Mhz, 16 Core(s), 32 Logical Processor(s)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU GDDR6 @ 12GB (192 bits)

RAM: Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 32.0 GB

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kgSdVlPjeBoNqJKoUjBFy8N5IjbJLXjK/view?usp=share_link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EXRD3Pt-QWzhrtD9FDSYlIjG2rWr_hbT/view?usp=share_link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18jKCa8XQAZI0-TSQi6BJeFY1QvdzIDMg/view?usp=share_link

Here are some examples. Note, the stuttering is not huge, it can be quite minute at times, while at other quite noticeable. I can run anymore tests if needed.

What seems to be happening is I'm getting a spike in Frametime which is then causing a stutter but there's not a huge drop in FPS, which is what's a little confusing, I have tried all I know, I don't know what else it could be. Are there any suggestions for this?

Things I've tried:

Resetting Laptop and launching the game off a clean wipe.

Messing with all Nvidia Control Panel settings.

Capping framerate with Nvidia and RTSS.

Messing with in game settings, disabling and enabling DLSS, VSYNC, GSYNC Etc.

Adjusting fan speeds to keep components cooler.

Unplugging anything USB.

Running through multiple benchmarks to make sure temps of components are good.

Updating BIOS.

Clean Driver Install.

Older Version of Driver installed using DDU.

Different settings in ArmoryCrate, Performance/Turbo.

In the picture that is attached, I have RDR2 Capped at 70 FPS using RTSS, so that keeps the frames stable, yet I still get these frametime spikes which will cause these small stutters.

Any suggestions welcome.

This is a 3k Laptop so I feel like it shouldn't be doing this.