Stuttering in every game. New PC.

[Big Kev]

Hey all. So my old PC had a lot of stuttering issues in games and I decided to buy a new one, as I could not diagnose the problem....except it's still happening on my new rig. I have an RTX 2060 Super, 8gb DDR4, an i5-9400F, and 2 SSDs. One of my SSDs is from my old PC, which I wanted so that I could install big games onto it, while the other SSD came with the unit when I purchased it. I'm currently running Windows 10 and have updated my Nvidia drivers already. The games that i've tested so far are Dying Light, The Forest, and even Minecraft. They all stutter. I started using MSI Afterburner to monitor what was going on and it seems my frametimes are fluctuating a LOT. (not good...) I just find it odd how I had the same exact stuttering on my old PC. Could this be something as simple as a bad monitor or cables? Could it even be software related? I know it's not my SSDs, as i've played the games off of different ones just to test if they wouldn't stutter. If anyone has this problem, or wants to try to help me out with this, please chime in because I don't know what else to do at this point.

[MancSoulja]

Have you tried vsync. Enable it, see if that makes your framtimes more uniform.

[Big Kev]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Have you tried vsync. Enable it, see if that makes your framtimes more uniform.

Yeah that's one of the first things I tried. It stutters with it on and off.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Ram problems seems to be the main cause. If you can afford add another 8 gig ram stick that matches the current. Your PC if its a tower should have more than one ram dimms slots on your mobo.
16 gig will run many games better.
How big is your psu, to cover all bases I use 850w corsair garranteed to never run any power usage higher than 70% no matter what hardware is attached via USB.
Power fluctuations can cause a lot of problems with staggers.
Directx is also another problem.
Try a directx diag. open run type in dxdiag press enter

[Zekiran]

Ouch, yeah 8g ram is on the lower end these days. I agree with the above.

[Muppet among Puppets]

What kind of stutter?
Monitor connected to the grafic card?
Drivers installed, no questionmarks in hardware manager?

[Big Kev]

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

Ram problems seems to be the main cause. If you can afford add another 8 gig ram stick that matches the current. Your PC if its a tower should have more than one ram dimms slots on your mobo.
16 gig will run many games better.
How big is your psu, to cover all bases I use 850w corsair garranteed to never run any power usage higher than 70% no matter what hardware is attached via USB.
Power fluctuations can cause a lot of problems with staggers.
Directx is also another problem.
Try a directx diag. open run type in dxdiag press enter

I can add RAM, yeah.
As for the power supply, it's a 600 watt I believe.
I'm not sure what you mean with Direct X though.
What do I look for within dxdiag? Everything seems normal in there.

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

What kind of stutter?
Monitor connected to the grafic card?
Drivers installed, no questionmarks in hardware manager?

The monitor is connected to the graphics card, drivers installed, and hardware manager is fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzI_moipCk4

[Muppet among Puppets]

As you can see you use around 5gb of your 8gb ram.
The fps is 50 to 60.

[Big Kev]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

As you can see you use around 5gb of your 8gb ram.
The fps is 50 to 60.

The stuttering occurred on my other PC with 16gb of RAM. I highly doubt that is the issue, but i'm going to add another 8gb of RAM later anyway.

[Nx Machina]

1) Is your monitor attached to the graphic card? not the motherboard.

2) Is the graphic card seated in a PCI_E x16 slot on the motherboard?

3) Enable fast sync (Nvidia Control Panel) under Vertical Sync, disable vsync in game.

4) Some stuttering issues are related to sound. Disable your sound card and test.


Note: I played with 8gb of ram, did not have issues, updated to 16gb still do not have issues.

[Big Kev]

Originally posted by Solid State:

1) Is your monitor attached to the graphic card? not the motherboard.

2) Is the graphic card seated in a PCI_E x16 slot on the motherboard?

3) Some stuttering issues are related to sound. Disable your sound card and test.

Note: I played with 8gb of ram, did not have issues, updated to 16gb still do not have issues.

My monitor is attached to the graphics card.
My graphics card is seated properly.
Disabling my sound card didn't fix the stuttering.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by Crazy Wolfgang:

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

As you can see you use around 5gb of your 8gb ram.
The fps is 50 to 60.

The stuttering occurred on my other PC with 16gb of RAM. I highly doubt that is the issue, but i'm going to add another 8gb of RAM later anyway.

I tried to tell, ram is not the problem

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by Crazy Wolfgang:

One of my SSDs is from my old PC

Was the SSD clean or did you leave stuff on there from your old PC?

[XistenZ]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

Originally posted by Crazy Wolfgang:

One of my SSDs is from my old PC

Was the SSD clean or did you leave stuff on there from your old PC?

Could be this. If uou plugged in your old SSD, make sure that you boot from the new, pre-installed SSD and not the old one. (I assume it's prebuilt?)

[Big Kev]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

Originally posted by Crazy Wolfgang:

One of my SSDs is from my old PC

Was the SSD clean or did you leave stuff on there from your old PC?

The SSD from my old PC had my old files on it, but I disconnected it and played a game from my new SSD. The stuttering was still there.

[Big Kev]

Originally posted by A no brainer:

Can you plug your PC in somewhere else, preferable into an outlet that ONLY will give power to the PC, just to make sure its not from the hardware not getting enough power from the outside (basically the only thing that your old PC and the new one share except the SSD which could be another cause or did you also insert something else from the old PC too?).

Funny you say that, I was thinking about that earlier but wasn't sure if it was a dumb idea or not.
I'll do that in a bit. Also, yes - the only thing I transferred from my old PC to this was the SSD.