Help with stutter in games

Ive tried to bring my bios settings all back to stock everything and tried and it still did it, so its not the OC I have.

I have not tried campaign however I have gone into MANY different servers. Same with my other games. But the stutter was happening both on SP & MP on other games.

In say black ops, my GPU never hits 70c and its in the max boost state all the time. And I believe that game has STOPPED stuttering as it was before. In bf3 after some times, my GPU hits 77c and that's when the core starts to fluctuate frequencies and voltages. But only a few MHz it never hits the base clock. But this is after some time. In the beginning it dosent stutter as much.



I will try to crank the fan up too 100% and play and see if that helps. The max clock is 1097mhz. And the base 998mhz. My CPU never hits 48c while playing bf3. When I put my new PSU in tomorrow, I'll take apart the GPU and put some good thermal paste on. MX-2.

As far as services, I'll try enabling all of them.

Tho I think the issue is fixed, because my other games don't seem to be stuttering, for bf3 I think its a mixture between a hot GPU and one that's not completely powerfully enough. As soon as I get home I'll try other games to male 100% sure.

I've ran a ping test to my router and I'm getting a max of 4ms average is 1-2ms. This is over WiFi. 300mbps N. I also ran a continuous packet test to router and Google and none were dropped.

I get a download speed of 60mbps and 20mbps upload speed. So internet is fine.

What settings are you using in BF3? Turn off motion blur, and ambient occlusion, set aa to 2 times and lower shadows to low. The game will still look great, and that might help. Here are my settings, and BF3 has no issues

That game I am playing on higher settings then I should be. I get between 50 and 70fps. Up until my GPU started to et hot and the frequency starts to bounce. However the stutter I'm getting is like a HDD lag. But its not.

Most of the time I'm in the 60 fps range.

as of now, im calling that the stutter is fixed. I will keep thread open just incase.

we basically ruled out it being hardware related. I think if it still exists, it is some services in which case I can just set them all back to normal stock, or worse case, reinstall windows. but I am 95% sure its fixed. bf3 is being stupid and doing some weird stuff rite now, so its hard for me to tell.

anyway thanks Dude and smarteyeball! rep givin!

N00berG00ber said:

In bf3 after some times, my GPU hits 77c and that's when the core starts to fluctuate frequencies and voltages. But only a few MHz it never hits the base clock. But this is after some time. In the beginning it dosent stutter as much.



I will try to crank the fan up too 100% and play and see if that helps. The max clock is 1097mhz. And the base 998mhz. I'll take apart the GPU and put some good thermal paste on. MX-2.

GPU temp is perfectly normal, as is the fluctuation. It's only when the card starts hitting the +100c mark that the thermal protection kicks in and drops below base clock speeds which isn't happening for you.

And the difference between baseclock and boost clock speeds would be a few fps at best.

As far as services, I'll try enabling all of them.

With todays hardware, it can easily absorb any extra resource usage. There's not really any benefit from tweaking higher end rigs.

for bf3 I think its a mixture between a hot GPU and one that's not completely powerfully enough.

Judging by framerate alone isn't enough these days unfortunately.

And lowering the settings as suggested by Dude are a good idea. Most post processing effects like Blur, AO and shadows can be the difference between smooth and jerky.

Glad we could help.