Games stuttering.

[cacra]

Hi,

 

I just built a new PC and despite Fraps telling me I have  ~80fps in most of my games, the all seem to stutter - I also get an annoying screeching sound occasionally. 

 

My monitor runs at 60hz, I do not see any reasoning behind the stuttering. 

 

Would limiting my GPU to 60fps change anything?

[EarthboundHero]

Probably coil whine for the noise. Only why to solve is to hot glue the coils, but that probably won't make it go away. Or RMA, but most companies won't allow it. Limiting to 60FPS may or may not solve it. Only way to know is to test it.

[leelaa14]

Hi,

 

I just built a new PC and despite Fraps telling me I have  ~80fps in most of my games, the all seem to stutter - I also get an annoying screeching sound occasionally. 

 

My monitor runs at 60hz, I do not see any reasoning behind the stuttering. 

 

Would limiting my GPU to 60fps change anything?

List specs and what games you've played when the stuttering occurs. 

[Enderman]

Probably coil whine for the noise. Only why to solve is to hot glue the coils, but that probably won't make it go away. Or RMA, but most companies won't allow it. Limiting to 60FPS may or may not solve it. Only way to know is to test it.

you cant just"hot glue" a coil because its actually sealed inside a plastic casing

usually it isnt even a coil, its just one component on the PCB that creates audible noise when a certain frequency of electricity is passed through it

there isnt a physically moving copper coil like there is in a speaker...and its not possible to stop it even if you pour hot glue over an entire GPU

[cacra]

fx6300

270x

12gb of memory.

 

It is not exactly high-end, but I am not playing on ultra settings and I am getting an average of 80fps - it never drops below 40. It shouldn't be stuttering.

 

One game, for an example, far cry 4. 

[cacra]

I read here that the noise could be due to having a higher fps than monitor refresh rate. Don't know if it is true. 

[I/O]

I keep reading these posts about in game stuttering to find out they are on an AMD CPU. Coincidence I think so.

[Atmos]

I did used to have major game stuttering in games like dota (minorly) and titan fall (completely unplayable because of it). While true that at the time I was running an amd cpu like you, although it was a totally different architecture (phenom x6). now, I do still occasionaly have the issue on titan fall even with my 4790k though it is, to a much lesser extent and is ussually fine after a couple seconds. What fixed a, lot of the stuttering in games and general use was running a fault check on my hdds on my old rig where the issue was more prominent. It found a crap ton of invalid and corrupt registries and removed them, speeding up my launch time (barely) and fixing 95% of the stuttering. Now I'm not saying this will work for you, but it did do a lot for me then. Before you go trying to delete corrupt and invalid registries though, have a poke around to make sure you won't kill your computer.

[PerfectTemplar]

I did used to have major game stuttering in games like dota (minorly) and titan fall (completely unplayable because of it). While true that at the time I was running an amd cpu like you, although it was a totally different architecture (phenom x6). now, I do still occasionaly have the issue on titan fall even with my 4790k though it is, to a much lesser extent and is ussually fine after a couple seconds. What fixed a, lot of the stuttering in games and general use was running a fault check on my hdds on my old rig where the issue was more prominent. It found a crap ton of invalid and corrupt registries and removed them, speeding up my launch time (barely) and fixing 95% of the stuttering. Now I'm not saying this will work for you, but it did do a lot for me then. Before you go trying to delete corrupt and invalid registries though, have a poke around to make sure you won't kill your computer.

Titanfall sucks like that though. I tried it with the week pass and I had same issues.

 

@OP Game stuttering could be because v-sync?

[BlazingRaptor]

fx6300

270x

12gb of memory.

 

It is not exactly high-end, but I am not playing on ultra settings and I am getting an average of 80fps - it never drops below 40. It shouldn't be stuttering.

 

One game, for an example, far cry 4. 

 

I'm running FC4 on around 90-100 fps and it the stutter isn't good.. its the game not your PC, however if it's happening on other games drivers are the first thing I'd check!

[Kevin_Walter]

fx6300

270x

12gb of memory.

 

It is not exactly high-end, but I am not playing on ultra settings and I am getting an average of 80fps - it never drops below 40. It shouldn't be stuttering.

 

One game, for an example, far cry 4. 

 

I actually find it difficult to believe you're getting 80fps on average in FC4 on "Ultra".

 

Of course, I haven't played FC4, maybe it's far better optimized than I'm thinking it would be... but in Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon, I don't get nearly that performance "on average", and I'm also running an FX 6300 and a 270x. On Ultra settings, I might get 35-45 fps outdoors, and around 60 indoors. To maintain 60+ at all times, I have to drop it down to around Medium.

 

Unless you're looking at the sky most of the time while playing...

[Humbug]

Ubisoft games stutter even if average framerate is Ok. Examples are watchdogs, assassin's creed unity and far cry 4. Don't worry about it most other AAA games from other devs work better.

[Atmos]

Titanfall sucks like that though. I tried it with the week pass and I had same issues.

 

@OP Game stuttering could be because v-sync?

 

I explored the V-Sync issues and found that turning it off, turning it on, using CCC vsync w/o ingame vsync, using it w/ ingame vsync never changed anything. For some of the people experiencing this issue they believed, and im not kidding here. That their FPS was just too high. (Now that i think about it, it might have been some no good dirty console peasants, or at least sounds like something one of them would say.)

 

I mean i did get the issue to almost go away when i upgraded my computer from that phenom to a 4790k, but i wouldn't stake my reputation on it being the cause of the game stuttering. It might just be something deeper in the games code, and a really crummy port from consoles. 

[Atmos]

I actually find it difficult to believe you're getting 80fps on average in FC4 on "Ultra".

 

Of course, I haven't played FC4, maybe it's far better optimized than I'm thinking it would be... but in Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon, I don't get nearly that performance "on average", and I'm also running an FX 6300 and a 270x. On Ultra settings, I might get 35-45 fps outdoors, and around 60 indoors. To maintain 60+ at all times, I have to drop it down to around Medium.

 

Unless you're looking at the sky most of the time while playing...

 

He already said he wasnt playing on ultra. He was playing medium-high settings.

[Kevin_Walter]

He already said he wasnt playing on ultra. He was playing medium-high settings.

 

*facepalm*

 

I completely misread what he said. I even quoted it... 

[DEDRICK]

Windows 7 or 8?  Fullscreen or Windowed Fullscreen? Does the problem go away when you record with Fraps /w Locked 60fps recording(Not vsync)?

[PerfectTemplar]

Windows 7 or 8?  Fullscreen or Windowed Fullscreen? Does the problem go away when you record with Fraps /w Locked 60fps recording(Not vsync)?

Was thinking this, sometimes being in Windowed Fullscreen/Borderless can cause stuttering.

[Buhnanner]

I've had the same problem man, here is what fixed mine:

 

I had CPU-Z and while watching my clock rate, I would jump around constantly, and my fix for that was going into to my power settings through my control panel, and setting it to high performance as it was on balanced. It fixed it for me.

 

some other thing you could do is run a memory diagnostic, and check disk.

[typographie]

I read here that the noise could be due to having a higher fps than monitor refresh rate. Don't know if it is true. 

 

Two separate issues, as far as I know. Running at a framerate that is different from your monitor's refresh causes problems, but different problems. Coil whine is usually just related to the raw framerate being rendered by the GPU itself. For instance, there have been some cases where certain games' menus have run at ridiculously high (1000+) framerates. That will cause coil whine even on cards that don't whine at normal gaming framerates.

 

There's a whole list of reasons why locking your framerate to 60 FPS on a 60 Hz monitor is a good idea. Coil whine might be alleviated by doing so, but only because 60 may be less than what it was rendering before.