So the aircon is cooling the room to a lovely pleasant temperature, I'm sitting comfortably with the controller in hand to relax with a nice slow paced game.
But today my brain decides to pick up on a small irregularity after the first 10minutes of playing.
I notice a slight stutter, and diagnose it to be caused by a framerate drop of 1 fps below my FPS limit which causes a frametime spike.
I peek at the graphs in Afterburner and the frametime stays at around 7ms for a bit, and then spikes to 11ms, then down to 7ms, then up to 14ms and sometimes even 18ms.
And because my brain is wonderful, it decides to ruin my night by making me notice this frametime spike. Every. Single. Time. Thanks bro.
So the troubleshooting begins...
Disable FPS monitoring. Nope it's still there.
Disable all overlays. Nope, it's still there.
Disable low latency mode. Nope.
Enable highest performance mode. Nope.
Close Afterburner. Nope.
Try another game. Nope.
Try googling some things, got some hints on what to go on.
Try without FPS limit. Nope.
Try without VSync. Nope.
Try without VSync+Gsync Compatible+FPS limit, a lot better better but the FPS is crazy high in light games and you get tearing.
Try googling some more things. Maybe it's the driver.
Install latest hotfix driver, game didn't start. Revert back.
I remember I still have Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling turned on.
Disable Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling. Nope.
Start disabling background programs one by one.
Disabling Corsair iCue. Nope.
Disabling Logitech Gaming software. Nope.
Disabling Samsung Magician. Nope.
Disabling ASUS AI Suite. Nope.
Disabling Kaspersky. Nope
Disabling the Wifi. Nope.
And finally I close HWiNFO. Stutter gone.
A lovely constant 140fps and a near-constant frametime of 7.2ms. Smooth as butter and absolute bliss. But now I have to go get some sleep.
Sometimes I just feel like getting a console and avoiding this crap.... But that sweet PC customization and brute performance is just incredible, once you get it working right
But today my brain decides to pick up on a small irregularity after the first 10minutes of playing.
I notice a slight stutter, and diagnose it to be caused by a framerate drop of 1 fps below my FPS limit which causes a frametime spike.
I peek at the graphs in Afterburner and the frametime stays at around 7ms for a bit, and then spikes to 11ms, then down to 7ms, then up to 14ms and sometimes even 18ms.
And because my brain is wonderful, it decides to ruin my night by making me notice this frametime spike. Every. Single. Time. Thanks bro.
So the troubleshooting begins...
Disable FPS monitoring. Nope it's still there.
Disable all overlays. Nope, it's still there.
Disable low latency mode. Nope.
Enable highest performance mode. Nope.
Close Afterburner. Nope.
Try another game. Nope.
Try googling some things, got some hints on what to go on.
Try without FPS limit. Nope.
Try without VSync. Nope.
Try without VSync+Gsync Compatible+FPS limit, a lot better better but the FPS is crazy high in light games and you get tearing.
Try googling some more things. Maybe it's the driver.
Install latest hotfix driver, game didn't start. Revert back.
I remember I still have Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling turned on.
Disable Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling. Nope.
Start disabling background programs one by one.
Disabling Corsair iCue. Nope.
Disabling Logitech Gaming software. Nope.
Disabling Samsung Magician. Nope.
Disabling ASUS AI Suite. Nope.
Disabling Kaspersky. Nope
Disabling the Wifi. Nope.
And finally I close HWiNFO. Stutter gone.
A lovely constant 140fps and a near-constant frametime of 7.2ms. Smooth as butter and absolute bliss. But now I have to go get some sleep.
Sometimes I just feel like getting a console and avoiding this crap.... But that sweet PC customization and brute performance is just incredible, once you get it working right