Game Full screen Stutter Progress. Found some leads. Need help resolving

[SuperShadonicX]

The problem seems to be stemming from NVidia graphics driver not the game itself.

I just did various extermination. I totally uninstalled my Graphics Driver and ran the game full screen without any graphics driver. Voila! Now it runs without the stutter in full screen.
This would mean Nvidia messed something up.
I searched a lot and found that not just EDF 4.1 and 5, but many many games after the Win 10 creators update and new Nvidia drivers have the exact same problem. Same stutter and same full screen only issue with Windowed being fine.
This also seems to only be happening on Steam games.

Now can anyone find something more? If I find something more, I will update.

[Squeakret Squirrel]

I noticed the stuttering stopped when I updated my drivers to 431.36. [GTX 980]

So if you haven't updated in awhile give it a shot I guess.

[SuperShadonicX]

Excellent! I hope this works. I updated my GFX drivers on 8th. Those that you mentioned came out on 9th, which I don't have. Downloading now!

[Voelkar]

There are tons of threads on this forum about this issue, just set your game to window mode and turn the program called borderless gaming on

[SuperShadonicX]

I know that works. But I had the exact same issue in 4.1 which I somehow fixed. Its funny my 4.1 runs in full screen buttery smooth now and this has problems. Don't know what the issue is.

By the way, tried the new Nvidia drivers. No luck for me. Same problem, didn't work.

[Too Metal]

Deactivate g sync in nvidia control panel if your monitor supports it, change it to fixed refresh. i had the same issue with micro stuttering now and again until i did that. Same with 4.1.

[SuperShadonicX]

I don't have G Sync. I'm on a Laptop Nvidia 940m. There isn't even a G Sync menu here.
However, I am convinced you are correct about the issue being caused by Sync.
By default G Sync is enabled on full screen only on the driver settings when you install new drivers after doing some research.
I am guessing, my Laptop does not have G Sync compatibility yet, for some reason, the driver is signaling the game for G Sync only in Full screen mode. But there's no menu to disable it...

[JSTM]

I dealt with with some games limiting their FPS to 20-30 in fullscreen like a year ago and the stupidest fix was to open and play video in chrome while playing and that that fixed it.

I don't know if this is a common issue (I'm not on a laptop either) with Windows 10 or Nvidia drivers but that was the only way in some games to make my GPU/CPU would ramp up when in fullscreen mode (I think windowed mode didn't give this restricted performance mode?).

I don't know how/why but it eventually fixed itself and I don't know if it was because of a Windows 10 or an Nvidia update (I also enabled "Ultimate Performance (I know it sounds ridiculous)" Power plan in the Windows "Power Options".