Frame Drops, Stuttering & Screen Tear Despite Good Specs

[doipyyy]

Hello, for a while now I've been having absolute horror with my PC at home. Everytime I play a game, any kind of game, it could be Fallout 4, Black Squad, Skyrim, heck even Geometry Dash, I get a slight FPS drop that results in stuttering or tearing on my display.

In HWmonitor, my temperatures are perfectly fine and where they should be, my CPU never rises above 68C at the MAX, and that's when I'm rendering out videos. I also have an evocooler 212 applied with arctic silver for my CPU, so temps should not be an issue. I sent back the GPU a few months back to Asus and they laboratory tested it, verifying there were no issues with the card.

Specs:
CPU: I7 4790 4th Gen Haswell @ 3.6ghz [Turbo Boost enabled]
RAM: 2x 8gbs 2133mhz Corsair Vengeance
GPU: R9 390x [Asus Strix]
Power Supply: Rosewill 850W
Motherboard: GIGABYTE G1 Gaming GA-Z97X-Gaming GT
Storage: 2x Seagate 7200RPM 2TB HDDs

I have tried using DDU as well as AMD's utility removal program to uninstall all traces of drivers, then reinstalling the newest driver available.

EDIT: I have also tried disabling speed step and my CPU's turbo boost, they do not aid to remedy the problem. Neither does limiting my FPS to 60FPS (I have a 60hz refresh rate monitor) with RSS (Rivatuner Statistics Server). I also notice that whenever I try and run dual graphics with my inboard Intel GPU, if I connect a monitor to the outputs on my mobo, the screens start to flicker and the PC BSODs within 10 seconds. I was running IGFX and the R9 390 a while back without any issues, but for some reason now it's acting up.

If anyone has any idea of what I could to do help remedy this issue, please suggest it below, I am open to trying anything at this point.

 

[doipyyy]

Ok, so I uploaded a few videos to streamable showing my problem. After recording and watching the videos, they look more stable but still kind of choppy, but that could just be my monitor if it is the issue and/or placebo.


Fallout 4 (At 30FPS, on high settings):
https://streamable.com/u5w15

TES: Skyrim (Ultra settings) [Not Special Edition]:
https://streamable.com/kq0d9

Cities: Skylines at medium graphics but level detail set to high:
https://streamable.com/h5mnn

State of Decay on max settings:
https://streamable.com/xidpc

Empire: Total War (Very High settings):
https://streamable.com/ypveo

All of the games were recorded at a 1440x900P resolution with my recorder set to export at 720P, 60FPS.

 

[Rogue Leader]

I went through your videos and I don't see anything wrong at all. I go back to my original suggestion, you are seeing screen tearing. I mean can you point out some particular time stamps in the videos to me? I really just don't see anything wrong.

 

[aquielisunari]

I went through your videos and I don't see anything wrong at all. I go back to my original suggestion, you are seeing screen tearing. I mean can you point out some particular time stamps in the videos to me? I really just don't see anything wrong.

Can you please explain what you mean by screen tearing?

@OP Once again we see action without stats. Going only by sight I completely agree with Rogue Leader in that nothing appears to be wrong.

 

[Rogue Leader]

I went through your videos and I don't see anything wrong at all. I go back to my original suggestion, you are seeing screen tearing. I mean can you point out some particular time stamps in the videos to me? I really just don't see anything wrong.

Can you please explain what you mean by screen tearing?

@OP Once again we see action without stats. Going only by sight I completely agree with Rogue Leader in that nothing appears to be wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing

https://nerdburglars.net/what-is-screen-tearing/

 

[doipyyy]

At around 1:50 in the empire total war video, as I am moving the camera, it just looks to me that the units jolt a bit. Lol, maybe it's just me and I'm going crazy... Similarly around 1:37 of the Empire video, when I'm zooming in on the regiments to have my soldiers charge, it does it again. The screen tearing does not show up in the recordings, I was having some while recording Fallout 4 but they did not show up on the actual recording.

 

[Rogue Leader]

At around 1:50 in the empire total war video, as I am moving the camera, it just looks to me that the units jolt a bit. Lol, maybe it's just me and I'm going crazy... Similarly around 1:37 of the Empire video, when I'm zooming in on the regiments to have my soldiers charge, it does it again. The screen tearing does not show up in the recordings, I was having some while recording Fallout 4 but they did not show up on the actual recording.

There is 100% nothing wrong with your system. I just watched those parts about 8 times each, I see nothing weird. Screen tear won't show up in recording unless you sat there with a video camera and recorded it. The only way to "cure"screen tear is to buy a freesync 100hz+ display.

 

[doipyyy]

At around 1:50 in the empire total war video, as I am moving the camera, it just looks to me that the units jolt a bit. Lol, maybe it's just me and I'm going crazy... Similarly around 1:37 of the Empire video, when I'm zooming in on the regiments to have my soldiers charge, it does it again. The screen tearing does not show up in the recordings, I was having some while recording Fallout 4 but they did not show up on the actual recording.

There is 100% nothing wrong with your system. I just watched those parts about 8 times each, I see nothing weird. Screen tear won't show up in recording unless you sat there with a video camera and recorded it. The only way to "cure"screen tear is to buy a freesync 100hz+ display.

Ok, so most likely just an issue with my monitors then and just look to replace those with a higher end freesync monitor?

 

[Rogue Leader]

That is the only solution to screen tearing, you want a high refresh rate freesync monitor. If I were you I'd look for a 1080p 144hz freesync monitor.