Stuttering on new PC

[NoiosoBear]

I used to play Elden Ring on my laptop and it ran fine. After building a new PC, I can't play the game without a stutter hitting every 1-3 seconds. Below I'll list my specs, and what I've tried to fix the issue so far.

Specs:
- CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
- GPU - AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
- RAM - Corsair 32GB DDR5 (x2)
- Storage - WD Black SN850X 4TB SSD
- Motherboard - MSI MAG X670E Tomahawk WiFi
- Power Supply - Corsair RM850e
- Operating System - Windows 11
- Monitors - ASUS TUF Gaming 1080p, 165Hz (x2)

Fixing Attempts:
- Turned off AMD Adrenaline in game overlay
- Deleted xbox overlay using Windows PowerShell
- Turned off Discord overlay
- Turned off Steam overlay
- Checked/Reinstalled graphics drivers
- Made sure BIOS was up to date
- Verified my Windows files to make sure nothing was wrong
- Set Elden Ring to high performance
- Messed with the power plan

Edit:
- Tried changing the "Optimizations for windowed games" On
- Checked to make sure I didn't have RTSS or MSI Afterburner

Edit after 3 days:
I have removed the answer that was pinned, because it's not working. Enabling XMP, changing the DRAM Frequency, and changing the FCLK has caused too much instability on my PC. When waking up from sleep, I get the blue screen of death. I tried to adjust the voltage settings to stop this from occurring, but that just results in your PC not even booting, meaning you have to remove your Mobo battery to reset everything to default. After 3 days of frustration and PC forum hell, I've reset my BIOS to default.

[Shogun]

There's little you can do about it, the game is typical of poor optimization from FromSoftware. But you've got a few options left.

Get rid of the dual monitors (this is always a problem with games these days), and drop the refresh rate down to 60Hz. Then use Nvidia control panel and force Vsync to be on (this game is a horrid PC port, where you can't even choose the proper Vsync settings in-game for whatever idiotic reason).

We don't know what sort of stutters you're getting (shader compilation, traversal, etc..), but there are missing pieces of info like what settings you're running the game at, as well as Windows 11 being straight shovelware that no one should be using.

[ezpz]

Have you tried looking through previous threads? A bunch of other people had the same issue and it was fixed by uninstalling some software that was causing the game to stutter.

Edit: It was caused by Riva Statistic Server
I bumped the thread to the top if you want to have a look.

[NoiosoBear]

Originally posted by bioanalytical:

Have you tried looking through previous threads? A bunch of other people had the same issue and it was fixed by uninstalling some software that was causing the game to stutter.

Edit: It was caused by Riva Statistic Server
I bumped the thread to the top if you want to have a look.

I went through previous threads, but I don't know how to find the Riva Statistics Server thing. When I tried searching for RivaTuner on my PC nothing came up. I may be looking for the wrong thing though...

[dark-breed]

Originally posted by NoiosoBear:

Originally posted by bioanalytical:

Have you tried looking through previous threads? A bunch of other people had the same issue and it was fixed by uninstalling some software that was causing the game to stutter.

Edit: It was caused by Riva Statistic Server
I bumped the thread to the top if you want to have a look.

I went through previous threads, but I don't know how to find the Riva Statistics Server thing. When I tried searching for RivaTuner on my PC nothing came up. I may be looking for the wrong thing though...

RTSS is a tool that get installed if you install MSI afterburner so if you do not have installed MSI afterburner RTSS is not in your system

[[-iD-]]

Originally posted by NoiosoBear:

Originally posted by bioanalytical:

Have you tried looking through previous threads? A bunch of other people had the same issue and it was fixed by uninstalling some software that was causing the game to stutter.

Edit: It was caused by Riva Statistic Server
I bumped the thread to the top if you want to have a look.

I went through previous threads, but I don't know how to find the Riva Statistics Server thing. When I tried searching for RivaTuner on my PC nothing came up. I may be looking for the wrong thing though...

look for afterburner and only use guru3d to download it.

[NoiosoBear]

Originally posted by dark-breed:

Originally posted by NoiosoBear:

I went through previous threads, but I don't know how to find the Riva Statistics Server thing. When I tried searching for RivaTuner on my PC nothing came up. I may be looking for the wrong thing though...

RTSS is a tool that get installed if you install MSI afterburner so if you do not have installed MSI afterburner RTSS is not in your system

Oh, gotcha. Thank you. I have MSI Adrenaline, but not Afterburner installed. Just to be safe I searched for RTSS and nothing popped up.

[dark-breed]

technically stutters with this game can have a huge variety of causes.

[CazadorDeLobo]

That is misinformation. If looking through other threads as that user proposed, there are several causes and therefore several possible solutions to stuttering, but first you have to find what is causing it. They are suggesting it is Riva Statistics Tuner, and that is one of many possible things. I believe that the advice there is just a convenient throwaway comment for lack of actually having time and experience to help you.

So, I would start by diagnosing any and all hardware-related foibles, as there could be many. Start with checking your BIOS, verifying XMP is on, and that the infinity fabric(FCLK) is 1:1 with the data rate of the memory(MCLK) and remember that the frequency displayed for your RAM is twice MCLK(DDR=double data rate). FCLK should not exceed 1900mhz, as this is in unstable territory, so if the RAM you installed with XMP on shoots to above 3800mhz, this will cripple gaming performance as the machine will opt for 2:1 instead for the FCLK.

Infinity fabric is what gives AMD processors a significant edge in gaming, in lieu of programming schemes that are otherwise hostile to how these CPUs run(anti-competitive Intel moves in the game engineering department, affecting DirectX releases, primarily.) They struggle to clock beyond 1900/2000mhz last I checked. So you will need to clock your DDR5 down to around 3800mhz. This information is not in your post, so it's my own shot in the dark; but would be a good first thing to check, as everything else will be affected by this.

[NoiosoBear]

I'm going to keep on trying whatever's suggested, and update the post to help out future players. Thank you guys for your help.

[biceps always together!!]

Yet another problem that could've easily been avoided simply by not buying AMD.

[NoiosoBear]

Originally posted by CazadorDeLobo:

That is misinformation. If looking through other threads as that user proposed, there are several causes and therefore several possible solutions to stuttering, but first you have to find what is causing it. They are suggesting it is Riva Statistics Tuner, and that is one of many possible things. I believe that the advice there is just a convenient throwaway comment for lack of actually having time and experience to help you.

So, I would start by diagnosing any and all hardware-related foibles, as there could be many. Start with checking your BIOS, verifying XMP is on, and that the infinity fabric(FCLK) is 1:1 with the data rate of the memory(MCLK) and remember that the frequency displayed for your RAM is twice MCLK(DDR=double data rate). FCLK should not exceed 1900mhz, as this is in unstable territory, so if the RAM you installed with XMP on shoots to above 3800mhz, this will cripple gaming performance as the machine will opt for 2:1 instead for the FCLK.

Infinity fabric is what gives AMD processors a significant edge in gaming, in lieu of programming schemes that are otherwise hostile to how these CPUs run(anti-competitive Intel moves in the game engineering department, affecting DirectX releases, primarily.) They struggle to clock beyond 1900/2000mhz last I checked. So you will need to clock your DDR5 down to around 3800mhz. This information is not in your post, so it's my own shot in the dark; but would be a good first thing to check, as everything else will be affected by this.

I'll restart my computer and start with the BIOS. Once I get through the suggestions I'll update the post, thank you!

[[-iD-]]

Originally posted by CazadorDeLobo:

That is misinformation. If looking through other threads as that user proposed, there are several causes and therefore several possible solutions to stuttering, but first you have to find what is causing it. They are suggesting it is Riva Statistics Tuner,.

he aint using rtss yet XD

[nfinite.recursion]

Originally posted by biceps always together!!:

Yet another problem that could've easily been avoided simply by not buying AMD.

The irony is that stutters have a bunch of different causes, but when it is due to the CPU, it's always a modern Intel CPU thanks to e-cores, or a really old CPU that is also tied to much slower RAM.

[[-iD-]]

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

Originally posted by biceps always together!!:

Yet another problem that could've easily been avoided simply by not buying AMD.

The irony is that stutters have a bunch of different causes, but when it is due to the CPU, it's always a modern Intel CPU thanks to e-cores, or a really old CPU that is also tied to much slower RAM.

it could also be this for intel.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21389/intel-issues-official-statement-regarding-14th-and-13th-gen-instability-recommends-intel-default-settings

[Joel]

Sadly FromSoftware is not the best company out there optimizing PC ports, the same happened with Dark Souls where you have to install extra tools to run it decently no matter how good your hardware is. I'm facing the same problem on i7 12650H and RTX 3070 and it seems to be related to e-cores, which shouldn't be used for gaming but since Windows is unable to recognize it properly and only spawn jobs on physical cores then it's FromSoftware the responsible to properly allocate jobs on physical cores but it seems they aren't. Some people are saying disabling e-cores on bios could improve performance since the jobs are forced to be spawned only on physical cores, but I don't know how it can affect overall performance for other Windows tasks