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Blackadder 28. sep. 2019 kl. 11:56

Steam games and hitching

I'm having an issue with games freezing/hitching momentarily, and it seems related to games on Steam as opposed to my Epic account games and Destiny 2 (currently on Blizzard launcher).

So, playing games from my Steam library, I notice that they will frequently hitch/hang for a second before smoothing out. Using a GPU monitoring tool, when this hitch occurs my GPU load and power consumption spike down. However, playing games outside my Steam library like Borderlands 3, Control, Destiny 2, etc., this doesn't seem to occur.

This has only recently started occurring within the last few days. What could be causing it?

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Komrade 28. sep. 2019 kl. 11:59

Possibly throttling? Check temps with HWMonitor.

Bad 💀 Motha 28. sep. 2019 kl. 12:16

Usually would be thermal throttling or lacking PSU. Destiny 2 is not a highly demanding game compared to ones that truly are a higher demand of cpu and gpu.

Disable gpu acceleration in Steam client settings. When you launch a steam game, try X'ing out the steam client window and see if that helps. Steam client will auto minimize when you X it out.

Monitor gpu with MSI Afterburner + RTSS and configure on screen display as well as the hotkey for that. So you can toggle OSD on/off as needed while in-game, allowing you to monitor things like cpu, ram, gpu while in-game.

Sidst redigeret af Bad 💀 Motha; 28. sep. 2019 kl. 12:16

Blackadder 28. sep. 2019 kl. 12:20

So, just loaded loaded up Deep Rock Galactic on Steam and played with it until I got a hitch. Temperature was at a steady 70c during gameplay. Just to be clear, this happens on Steam games that are not graphically demanding. Messing around with Enter the Gungeon a bit and I got a hitch.

Bad 💀 Motha 28. sep. 2019 kl. 12:25

Then try capping your fps as the issue could be a lacking cpu

Blackadder 28. sep. 2019 kl. 12:37

I wouldn't think so. It's an i7 8700k. I don't think it's the current top of the line or anything, but I don't think it would be considered weak either.

And again, this problem only started occurring several days ago.

Sidst redigeret af Blackadder; 28. sep. 2019 kl. 12:38

Bad 💀 Motha 28. sep. 2019 kl. 12:40

Check Windows Updates History.

Could very well have been an os update that has caused such issues.

Blackadder 28. sep. 2019 kl. 14:44

Looks like it might be a video card related issue. I took out the 2080ti I bought back in May that had been working great until now, and put my 1080 in and it seems to have done the trick. Going to play around some more and if I don't get any more hitches I'll have to see about getting an RMA.

Spec_Ops_Ape 29. sep. 2019 kl. 2:08

I had the same thing start happening to me this morning in Fallout 4. Last night before bed I did 3 things
1: Pre-loaded Destiny 2
2: Updated my GPU drivers to the latest version (Radeon VII)
3: While I was at AMD I grabbed the chipset drivers for my board and updated that (X470)

Today I used DDu to uninstall the new drivers and re-installed the previous drivers I was using, didn't fix the "hitching".
An hour ago I moved all the pre-loaded files for Destiny 2 to another drive, steam no longer shows Destiny 2 in my library.
Fallout 4 is no longer "hitching" during gameplay. I am about to put the Destiny 2 files back where they were in the depotcache folder and see if the problem returns.

Sidst redigeret af Spec_Ops_Ape; 29. sep. 2019 kl. 2:08