very small stutters in games with GTX 1080

[Super panda]

Hello.I bought my pc about 2-3 months ago. And I don't know if it always did this but I'm starting to see a little stutter in a few of the games I'm playing  like Dark souls 3, GTA V (when flying) , Witcher 3 . Is a small stutter in games normal ? I don't have overheating issues and i have installed the latest drivers.

My spec:

GAINWARD GLH GTX 1080 (Overclocked)

i7 6700K

16 GB DDR4 RAM

ASUS Z170-K MOTHERBOARD

COOLER MASTER B700 700W

1TB HDD 7200RPM

[AresKrieger]

Well if your running without a frame cap stuttering may occur or if the game is forced to load data from an HDD due to fast movement if the HDD is really slow, or if the OC isn't so stable. Take your pick, but none are what I'd consider "normal"

[Energycore]

Things to try:

 

- Fullscreen with vsync

- Reinstall drivers (use DDU)

- Increase voltage / decrease OC a bit

[Cereal5]

11 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Things to try:

 

- Fullscreen with vsync

- Reinstall drivers (use DDU)

- Increase voltage / decrease OC a bit

Voltage is locked on pascal cards. It does nothing to stabilize OCs anyways, you just run into temp barriers. 

 

Just decrease or turn off your OC and see what happens then

[Super panda]

37 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:

Well if your running without a frame cap stuttering may occur or if the game is forced to load data from an HDD due to fast movement if the HDD is really slow, or if the OC isn't so stable. Take your pick, but none are what I'd consider "normal"

i still have a little stutter even without overclocking . but some people say it's normal for games like dark souls 3 , skyrim .

[Super panda]

33 minutes ago, Cereal5 said:

Voltage is locked on pascal cards. It does nothing to stabilize OCs anyways, you just run into temp barriers. 

 

Just decrease or turn off your OC and see what happens then

It still happens even without overclocking. it's not always noticable or annoying but i thought games should be able to hold a rock solid 60 fps. 

[AresKrieger]

21 minutes ago, Nima123 said:

i still have a little stutter even without overclocking . but some people say it's normal for games like dark souls 3 , skyrim .

Where in Darksouls 3 since I can remember a certain areas are more intensive then other but I use Vsync so dips are not really an issue since I'm only going 1080p with little AA (and of course a 970) so CPU workload is minimal except in the most extreme situations I'd also try a different driver or try capping frames (if they aren't already) as it can't hurt