Stuttering/Frame Skipping

[mbryant]

Hey all, I've got a GTX 1070, an MSI Z97S SLI Krait MOBO and i7 4790K. Lately i've noticed that I seem to be skipping or dropping frames in regular use. I mostly notice it while watching Netflix or Youtube and while I"m video editing. I just updated my GPU drivers but I haven't restarted my system yet but I don't think that's likely to be the issue because I swear I've had this issue since my last driver update but I can't say for sure.

If it's not the driver, does anyone have any idea about what this might be? 

[CryptoMatt]

You usually have to restart for the full changes to take effect of a driver update. So do that

 

if it still persists after that use DDU then reinstall drivers 

[Ashleyyyy]

go to task manager and open the performance tab. it should list memory, cpu, gpu. check if any of those hit 100% during your use. 

[mbryant]

1 hour ago, firelighter487 said:

go to task manager and open the performance tab. it should list memory, cpu, gpu. check if any of those hit 100% during your use. 

I use CAM nothing seems to spike when this happens 

[Ashleyyyy]

turn off any overclocks. 

[mbryant]

1 hour ago, firelighter487 said:

turn off any overclocks. 

No OC and I've restarted since my driver update, it's still happening

[Ashleyyyy]

1 minute ago, mbryant said:

No OC and I've restarted since my driver update, it's still happening

okay.. maybe a bit of a stupid suggestion, but use your intel graphics for a minute, check youtube and see if it skips. then you will know if it's the nvidia drivers. 

[mbryant]

1 hour ago, firelighter487 said:

okay.. maybe a bit of a stupid suggestion, but use your intel graphics for a minute, check youtube and see if it skips. then you will know if it's the nvidia drivers. 

Is there any way at all that my card might not be seated well enough? 

[Ashleyyyy]

5 hours ago, mbryant said:

Is there any way at all that my card might not be seated well enough? 

then it won't post. so no...

[r3loAded]

This issues seems to happen to more people. I have a GTX 1080 that started to do the same. Only noticed in gaming. And it's frustrating as my monitor is a G-Sync one but those frame drops a very visible and annoying. It has to be related to the latest driver, at least that's what I think.

[mbryant]

11 hours ago, r3loAded said:

This issues seems to happen to more people. I have a GTX 1080 that started to do the same. Only noticed in gaming. And it's frustrating as my monitor is a G-Sync one but those frame drops a very visible and annoying. It has to be related to the latest driver, at least that's what I think.

I've also noticed something else and I can't capture it because it happens infrequently and only for a second. Sometimes and only on my main display, on the right hand side a rectangular block will appear and the best I can describe it is like "snow" on an old TV set. It appears for a second then goes away. I'd say maybe it's my DP cable BUT I think the distortion is related to the frame skipping and the frame skipping happens on both of my monitors. One using DP and the other HDMI