Frequent and severe stutters during the first 20-30min of playing CPU intensive game (AC Origins).

[Perry2611]

I get very severe and frequent stutters when I start up this game. After it's been on for a while the stutters are gone completely. It stutters every 2 second or so, but there are also "trigger sensitive stutters". The stutters are triggered when I perform a "new action". Like climbing a wall, or shooting an enemy for the first time during that session. After the action has been done once, it won't cause a massive stutter anymore. I've been able to fix this by setting game priority to high (control panel) whenever I start the game. But I want to know why this happens, and if there's something I should do about it. Other than setting it to high priority, obviously.

1050 ti 4GB
i7 2600 3.4ghz
8gb ram

 

[Jwpanz]

What does your RAM usage look like when gaming?

 

[IInuyasha74]

The Assassin's Creed games are well known for being horribly optimized and launching full of bugs. It sounds like part of the issue is in the software. If you set game priority to high and that resolves the issue, then it's something to do with what is running on the processor. You might try closing everything possible down before running the game to free up some more resources on the CPU.

 

[Perry2611]

What does your RAM usage look like when gaming?

I tested it now, without setting the game to high priority.
CPU 65-100%, spikes to 100% a couple of times, but generally stays below that.
GPU 99-100%
RAM 70-75%
DISK USAGE 70-100%, stays at 100% for the most part.

Edit: I was surprised with the disk usage. Found I hadn't formated one of them. So I did that and launched the game. Disk usage is now around 15-30%.

 

[Perry2611]

The Assassin's Creed games are well known for being horribly optimized and launching full of bugs. It sounds like part of the issue is in the software. If you set game priority to high and that resolves the issue, then it's something to do with what is running on the processor. You might try closing everything possible down before running the game to free up some more resources on the CPU.

Yes, the PC version of Origins is poor. It's speculated to be because of the DRM ; Denuvo layered with VMProtect. But I haven't seen anyone resorting to changing priority in the control panel, so I'm still a bit unsure if people are getting the same problems as me.

 

[Perry2611]

It was a problem with disk usage, not cpu. I had to format one of them. Still some minor stutters every minute or so that are probably CPU releated. Thankfully no need to mess around in the control panel everytime I boot up the game now.

 

[jr9]

- If you not have an SSD, it would help if you are experiencing issues with heavy disk loads.

- Upgrading to a better processor like the 3770k or a new platform (Ryzen, Coffee Lake) would smooth out stuttering. Recent AAA titles can be very taxing for an older processor.

 

[Perry2611]

- If you not have an SSD, it would help if you are experiencing issues with heavy disk loads.

- Upgrading to a better processor like the 3770k or a new platform (Ryzen, Coffee Lake) would smooth out stuttering. Recent AAA titles can be very taxing for an older processor.

I had to format one of them, so disk usage went from 90-100% to 15-35% after I did that. I disagree, i3 6100 and above is a good match with the 1050 ti, that shouldn't lead to any cpu bottlenecking. AC Origins is more the expection than the rule, with it's double layered DRM putting a ton of stress on the cpu.

 

[jr9]

The 2600 and an i3-6100 are near identical performance. The 3770k is 20% faster than the i3-6100 and would not require a motherboard upgrade or new RAM.

Reformating an HDD eliminates any and all software and OS issues. You have no way of knowing what the issue was if you reformat. If it's running the same DRM when you reinstalled the game as it did before then DRM likely isn't the issue. You could have had a rootkit running off of the drive for all you know or perhaps superfetch issues.

 

[Perry2611]

The 2600 and an i3-6100 are near identical performance. The 3770k is 20% faster than the i3-6100 and would not require a motherboard upgrade or new RAM.

Reformating an HDD eliminates any and all software and OS issues. You have no way of knowing what the issue was if you reformat. If it's running the same DRM when you reinstalled the game as it did before then DRM likely isn't the issue. You could have had a rootkit running off of the drive for all you know or perhaps superfetch issues.

There was no reformating performed. As I said- I had to format a disk. As in; there was an additional disk on the computer that had never been formated.
I did some comparisons of the cpu's just now.
The 13-6100's performance is proportionally 53% worse than the i7 2600.
The 3770k's performance is proportionally 10% better than the i7 2600.

Source: http://www.game-debate.com

 

[jr9]

You're saying you had unallocated space on a disk or a seperate disk and which increased the amount of storage you have and made the disk less full? Or are you saying you formatted unallocated space which magically caused your disk usage (as in read/write stress) to be reduced?

game-debate.com is not a good source of information for comparing parts at all. I had a look at it and a lot of those percentages look like nonsense. It uses Intel Ark statistics on the processors and not actual benchmarks, making point to point comparisons of processors. This makes sense if you were comparing something like accounting software. It says the 3770k is 26% better than the 2500k, which is also incorrect. It generates all of those numbers using processor and minimum game specs, runs some scripts, then barfs out a random percentage based on those comparisons.

 

[Perry2611]

You're saying you had unallocated space on a disk or a seperate disk and which increased the amount of storage you have and made the disk less full? Or are you saying you formatted unallocated space which magically caused your disk usage (as in read/write stress) to be reduced?

game-debate.com is not a good source of information for comparing parts at all. I had a look at it and a lot of those percentages look like nonsense. It uses Intel Ark statistics on the processors and not actual benchmarks, making point to point comparisons of processors. This makes sense if you were comparing something like accounting software. It says the 3770k is 26% better than the 2500k, which is also incorrect. It generates all of those numbers using processor and minimum game specs, runs some scripts, then barfs out a random percentage based on those comparisons.

Additional disk. Standardized testing giving a performance percentage proportional to the cpu/gpu being tested is more than enough for a generalized performance comparison. It's more convincing than one person telling me otherwise. But, I can't type about this all day. Not going to buy a 3770k. My 1050 ti is already bottlenecking my i7 2600 enough in games, it would be a complete waste for anything that doesn't have layers upon layers of DRM.