Fps drops and stuttering in all games despite replacing PC three times

[Yuiiski]

Hello all, I shall attempt to keep this brief....


Long story short, I got into PC gaming back in 2017 with a pre-built PC, it ran games really bad from the very beginning. I tried to fix it for over a year but nothing worked. I ended up buying another pre-built PC back in 2018, same thing, all games run so bad, constant fps drops and stuttering every few seconds... Move along to June of this year and I decided to build my own PC, all new parts, RTX 2080 SUPER, i9 9900k, 32GB RAM etc..... Runs games terribly just like the two different PCs before it. It can't even run basic games like Minecraft, but again, this affects every single game I have ever tried to play on PC.


Now, considering I have owned three separate PC's with all different parts, its very safe to assume that the parts themselves are fine, so if it's not the parts, what on earth could it be? Because the temps are fine, the PC is working fine only up until I attempt to run any games.

I feel like I have tried almost everything at this point...

- Reinstalled Windows
- Disabled Xbox DVR
- Turned off G-Sync
- Turned of V-Sync
- Low and high in-game graphics
- Disabling that windows feature for fullscreen optimization
- Windowed and Fullscreen mode
- Defragmented SSD
- Nvidia Experience overlay disabled
- Tried Empty Standby List
- Reinstalled drivers with DDU
- Check if my BIOS is on the latest version
- Changed all parts including case three times
- Tried Windows 7 & Windows 8
- Tried both Intel & AMD CPU's


I have tried a lot more things, but the fact that I have basically tried three different PCs at this point, I can't see it being an issue with the PC itself.

[XxzodazZ]

Messaggio originale di Yuiiski:

What I don't get is this, all my games run so badly, I can't even run games like DOOM, The Witcher 3, any of the Battlefield games, Minecraft, Borderlands, Counter Strike and hundreds more without constant fps drops and stutter, yet when I do any sort of stress test or benchmark, everything is fine. Its driving me nuts.

Try to turn off Gpu sceduling esp for witcher 3

[XxzodazZ]

Trust me i was getting like 20 fps in TW3 until I turned Gpu sceduling off

[_I_]

what cpu cooler?

do not overclock with the stock cooler

edit:
NZXT KRAKEN Z73
make sure the pump is at 100% all of the time
and use the rad fans on the cpu fan header

[Yuiiski]

Messaggio originale di SkunkJ:

Trust me i was getting like 20 fps in TW3 until I turned Gpu sceduling off

Fps is not the problem, I get high fps but get constant stuttering and fps drops. It doesn't matter if I play all games at low settings at 720p, I will always get these issues. I have tried GPU scheduling and still get the issues.

[Set-115689]

Any background recording software or rgb software running in the background?

press windows key + x and click on task manager and see whats in start up. In options up top you can select always on top and keep it open during he game to see whats running and using up resources. Maybe turn off always on top afterwards because it messes up EA games from launching.

You can try turning off background apps just not nvidia control panel or windows defender.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSH1JwNPHA8

Resetting the nvidia control panel help? Multiple antivirus programs running, razor software, icue, etc...?

Not sure about peripherals?

Removing the ram overclock help?

[Julien, cut it out.]

Messaggio originale di Yuiiski:

Messaggio originale di rezo:

Try record a video with msi afterburner overlay on and playing a game, should show cpu usage, gpu usage, clock speeds and fps etc while playing and that would help us figure out whats wrong

Already done that, here are some videos.

Besides the Halo 2 frame drops, I don't really see any strange behaviour.

In BFV and Minecraft you're CPU-bound. Playing with uncapped framerate will introduce the frametime inconsistency.
When GSync/FreeSync is active (FPS value < monitor refresh rate (165 HZ) ), you will experience this frametime inconsistency as "stutter".

The best way to avoid this situation is to cap the max. FPS to a value, at which frametime variability does seldom occur.

F.e. for BFV:
Activate GSync, cap the max. FPS value to 120.

[Yuiiski]

Messaggio originale di Set-115689:

Any background recording software or rgb software running in the background?

press windows key + x and click on task manager and see whats in start up. In options up top you can select always on top and keep it open during he game to see whats running and using up resources. Maybe turn off always on top afterwards because it messes up EA games from launching.

You can try turning off background apps just not nvidia control panel or windows defender.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSH1JwNPHA8

Resetting the nvidia control panel help? Multiple antivirus programs running, razor software, icue, etc...?

Not sure about peripherals?

Removing the ram overclock help?

Nope, I have nothing launching on start up. My PC doesn't have any RGB so I have no RGB software installed either. I don't have any anti viruses installed, I only use Windows Defender which I have turned off in the past to see if it was causing the issues, which it wasn't. I have also tried using the base ram speeds and still got the problems.

[rezo]

38% gpu usage on minecraft isnt right. I get 400fps on 1440p with a much slower system at higher settings. Not sure what could be the issue tbh

[Set-115689]

I would also ignore halo.

If your power supply has two vga wires (lanes) coming from the power supply maybe try using two instead of maybe using one?

[Yuiiski]

Messaggio originale di Bananarama:

Messaggio originale di Yuiiski:

Already done that, here are some videos.

Besides the Halo 2 frame drops, I don't really see any strange behaviour.

In BFV and Minecraft you're CPU-bound. Playing with uncapped framerate will introduce the frametime inconsistency.
When GSync/FreeSync is active (FPS value < monitor refresh rate (165 HZ) ), you will experience this frametime inconsistency as "stutter".

The best way to avoid this situation is to cap the max. FPS to a value, at which frametime variability does seldom occur.

F.e. for BFV:
Activate GSync, cap the max. FPS value to 120.

Ah, oh well. It runs incredibly bad for me. It doesn't feel like 100+ fps at all. It feels more like 20fps. And my friend has a weaker PC then me, and that little fps graph is near enough a straight line for them and it feels incredibly smooth, unlike on my PC, so I know that something is 100% wrong

[rezo]

This may sound stupid and could only apply to laptops, but have you checked your Power Management mode because it could be set to 'Power saver' instead of 'High performance'.

May sound silly but you never know.

[Yuiiski]

Messaggio originale di Set-115689:

I would also ignore halo.

If your power supply has two vga wires (lanes) coming from the power supply maybe try using two instead of maybe using one?

I've tried that too.

[Yuiiski]

Messaggio originale di rezo:

This may sound stupid and could only apply to laptops, but have you checked your Power Management mode because it could be set to 'Power saver' instead of 'High performance'.

May sound silly but you never know.

I have tried high performance, no difference sadly.

[rezo]

Messaggio originale di Yuiiski:

Messaggio originale di rezo:

This may sound stupid and could only apply to laptops, but have you checked your Power Management mode because it could be set to 'Power saver' instead of 'High performance'.

May sound silly but you never know.

I have tried high performance, no difference sadly.

Have you ran a synthetic benchmark like 3dmark firestrike/timespy? What do results say on that.

[Yuiiski]

Messaggio originale di rezo:

Messaggio originale di Yuiiski:

I have tried high performance, no difference sadly.

Have you ran a synthetic benchmark like 3dmark firestrike/timespy? What do results say on that.

I have, and they always pass. Which just makes no sense. I mentioned this above somewhere, all my games run badly, yet the moment I do any kind of benchmark or stress test, everything is fine, no fps drops, no stutter etc.