Micro stutters (Solved)

[Rock]

So I played AC6 for about 70 hours no problems. But now I have micro stutters that seem to happen about every 5ish seconds. Essentially the game freezes for a very very small moment and continues. I have my frames capped at 120.

Been checking out do I have any odd performance issues with any other of my games and everything is fine from what I can tell. So whatever is going on it is only affecting AC6 out of my Steam games. Even games like Dragon's Dogma 2 which people bash for having poor optimization runs smooth 120 fps.

So I wonder what happened here. Did the latest AC6 update do something ? Or did my OS (W11) have an update that somehow effects this game ? Any ideas ? I know this is a very vague and hella hard thing to troubleshoot but might as well. Because I don't wanna play a stutter filled game and I love AC6.

PC gamer moment. Everything was fine until it was not.

EDIT: As it turns out it was Windows 11 issue (again). This is the 2nd time for me Windows 11 update has made my game(s) stutter (cpu thing I guess). They fixed it in another update so AC6 runs normally again.

If you are a gamer I recommend to stay away from W11. When OS update destroys your cpu performance (or whatever the problem is) I don't think you as the user of the OS can do much about that, other than waiting for Microsoft releasing an update (maybe) in timely manner.

[garratose]

Anything about poor FPS?

[Rock]

Originally posted by garratose:

Anything about poor FPS?

No. My fps itself was fine. Just every 5 second I had a split second freeze. But the frames themselves were 120 fps where I had capped the game.

As I was troubleshooting this I ran into a lot of advice that you should disable core 0 of your cpu in task manager for AC6.
Another popular advice for having poor fps for AC6 was to disable hyperthreading in bios.

I did not try any of those since I refuse to "enable / disable" things in bios or other hardware settings just for one game.

[vk^4@]

If Gpu is Nvidia, try the Studio version instead of Game ready version.
Could you try it with V-Synch on or off on the stutter issue?

[Rock]

Originally posted by vk^4@:

If Gpu is Nvidia, try the Studio version instead of Game ready version.
Could you try it with V-Synch on or off on the stutter issue?

I have no issues anymore, it was Windows update problem. The game runs normally again.