Consistent stuttering (wired)

[dpavlic]

Hello all,

I'm trying this out for the first time, but I'm having an odd problem.

There is very much a 'stutter' or a 'jumpiness' when I'm streaming -- currently only Deus Ex HR as that is the only game currently installed on host. It makes the game just about unplayable.

The host is pretty powerful and runs the game no problem. I've tried a Zotac ION and a Mac Mini client (2011) and the same problem manifests itself on both. Looking at the monitor of the actual host, I see that the game is as smooth as butter. Latency seems very solid, not a lot of movement there and bandwidth settings don't seem to change things one way or another. FPS indicated is consistently close to 60 fps and Steam tells me no frames are lost. Yet I can clearly see the jumping.

Anyone have any idea? I obviously have no frame of reference as to what to expect.

[SilentHorizon]

do you have the bandwith settings to auto? Because if you manually set it to something small, that is probably the problem.

[dpavlic]

Tried every setting -- including auto. Makes no difference.

[UnkendTech]

firewall??

[iLikeStealnStuff]

Try limiting the frame rate on the host.

[dpavlic]

Rob's comment indirectly made me think about framerate and sync issues; so I disabled vsync on the host; early days yet, but it seems to have done the trick. Tears like a madman on the host now, but nice and smooth on the client and I can't notice any jumpiness yet. I'll update if that changes.

[dpavlic]

I can confirm, it's definitely vsync on/off. Vsync on on host plays merry hell with everything.

[Luke A Szabo]

I personally get this happening smooth on the Host, stuttering on the client, when I use vsync or not. I think perhaps it has something to do with certain games, perhaps when the API is more developed it will be less of an issue.

[cparen]

I personally had a similar problem -- skipping very regularly, about 1 per second for half a second. In the end, it was Parallels. Even when no virtual machines were running, it caused skipping. After exiting Parallels, I got 1080p @ 60fps, butter smooth. Just another thing to check -- kill every other program running, then add them back one at a time.

[WaveOz]

Originally posted by cparen:

I personally had a similar problem -- skipping very regularly, about 1 per second for half a second. In the end, it was Parallels. Even when no virtual machines were running, it caused skipping. After exiting Parallels, I got 1080p @ 60fps, butter smooth. Just another thing to check -- kill every other program running, then add them back one at a time.

what is Parallels, i am having the same problem

[SoldierOfSwansea]

Any update on this ? I'm having similar issue but I'm going through a steam link>router>power line adapter > switch host machine and getting unplayable lag spikes.... Gonna put host machine next to router to try and eliminate the PL adapters and switch as the issue. Will let you know results... Anyone know if Windows 10 is an issue ? Or any application that can cause LAN spikes?

[RawwrBag]

Trying turning off SLI, if you use it.