Stuttering when hitting loading zones

[Virtual01]

I just set up my new rig with a gsync monitor. In some games though, I will take a noticeable frame drop while running through a loading zone and my game will stutter for a second. This is especially apparent in Dark Souls but also happens to a lesser degree in Metro. I thought the point of gsync was to fix this? My frames rarely drop below 60 yet the stuttering is very noticeable when it happens.

 

I have no idea if this happened before or not because I could not pull over 60 FPS in either of those games on my old computer, and did not have a monitor to support it if I could.

 

Is this normal? Does it have something to do with the games being saved on an SSD?

[Dzzope]

If your games are now on SSD and weren't before, it should not be an issue.

 

Do you have the SSD's in AHCI mode?

 

Gsync stops tearing and stuttering caused by the GPU and monitor rendering frames and drawing frames at different times... the load is all about the storage..

[Exploded117]

This is completely normal for pretty much any game or PC. When you reach one of these loading zones your PC is tasked with the job of loading an entirely new section of the game which is pretty demanding and you will suffer a performance hit on pretty much any PC (unless you have like a 5960X and 2 Titans, a bit of an exaggeration, but I think you get my point) which will usually decrease your FPS for a short time while that section loads. It isn't a problem with your SSD (in fact your SSD actually helps the situation by allowing your PC to load the files off of the drive faster.)

 

Also, as far as G-Sync. G-Sync is meant to fix screen tearing by offering variable refresh rate to the monitor. There are other methods of doing this such as V-Sync, which will degrade your game's performance. However, G-Sync does this without degrading performance. G-Sync does not, however, get rid of stuttering due to low FPS rates. This is a problem that comes with low FPS rates and cannot be fixed. Also, in some monitors, if your FPS rate gets low enough G-Sync will no longer work. If you look on your monitor's specs, you should see something along the lines of "G-Sync from 20-144Hz" or something like that.

 

In short, yes it is common. No, it's not a problem with G-Sync or your SSD and if you want to fix this pretty much the only way is to get an extremely overkill machine so that it can load those spots at super-sonic speed.

[Virtual01]

Ok so I just loaded Dark Souls on my laptop and the stuttering is non-existant. I am running at a lower graphical quality, but still. How can a vastly more powerful setup suffer from stuttering so noticeably, yet a lower powered machine shrugs it off?

[leelaa14]

Ok so I just loaded Dark Souls on my laptop and the stuttering is non-existant. I am running at a lower graphical quality, but still. How can a vastly more powerful setup suffer from stuttering so noticeably, yet a lower powered machine shrugs it off?

How the temps? Maybe throttling.

[Virtual01]

How the temps? Maybe throttling.

Temps are fine, not even hitting 100% power usage.