Question Games microstutter every 8-10 seconds or so, but otherwise buttery smooth - what is going on?

[clearance]

Hi everybody,

I have this problem. Most games have this micro-stutter fenomenom on my PC which is extremely frustrating.

Everything runs buttery-smooth most of the time, 60 FPS on the counter all the time, and then every 8-10 seconds or so i get a brief chop, like for a half of the second or even less few frames got stuck, or cut, or something.

I'll get that in most games like Call Of Duty: WWII, COD:MW 2019, Arkham Knight (well, ok it has had optimizing problems for years so might be something different), Quake II (not the remaster, old version but with Yamagi patch), Far Cry 3, Far Cry 4... Much less noticeable in COD: MW2 REmaster, if any actually. Definitely not happening for instance on FIFA 17 or Forza Horizon 4 - buttery smooth all the time.

The PC spcecs are: i5 13600K, RTX 2060 6GB, 32 GB RAM, games are installed either on SATA or NvME SSD drives. I don't think configuration is the problem. It should handle all those games really well (i mean FAR CRY3 - 2012, Quake 2 more like 1997). I had a similar problem on an older PC for years before i built this one last year - it ran some games (GTX 560) worse than the one before it (7900 GS). But figured, maybe it was an old monitor running on DVI-D or a very old optical mouse with poor refresh rate, new nVidia drivers not working well with old games.
But now i have a modern monitor and mouse. So what the heck? Is it a matter of some Nvidia Panel Settings tweaking or something? Should i cap the 60 FPS in-game or force it in the nVidia settings, or whatever it may be?Could someone help?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Did you transplant OS drive from a different computer without reinstalling windows?

 

[clearance]

No, i did a clean install of a new system.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Check cpu and gpu temperatures. Use MSI afterburner.
Check health of your storage devices. Use SSD manufacturer specific tools (from manufacturer support web page).

What model PSU are you using? Read model name from PSU info label.

Can you run userbenchmark test and show link to results page?

 

[clearance]

I'll need to run SSD benchmark's and userbenchmark. The PSU is ThermalTake TOUGHPOWER GF1 750W. The CPU temperatures are around 40 deg. Celsius when playing the most demanding game which i assume to be COD: MW 2019.

 

[geofelt]

The cause might be interference from some other task of higher priority.
Are you running anything else while gaming?
Something like discord, perhaps?

Start up task manager /resource monitor. Sort by cpu utilization.

Look for some task that becomes active at the same frequency as the stutters.

 

[clearance]

here's my UserBenchmark result:
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/66846237
From what i can read around it looks like a lot of people suggest either turning of E-cores off or disabling core-parking. Does this sound good?

 

[SkyNetRising]

here's my UserBenchmark result:
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/66846237

High background utilization.
Check, what is causing it.

Other than that, it seems good.

 

[clearance]

I think i might have had chrome running for a while at the beginning of the test.
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UPDATE:
It's been solved apparently. No micro-stutter even in the old games thanks to disabling E-cores in the BIOS, as stupid as this is to go there and turn them off every time i plan to be playing certain games.
Also with older far cry titles, which still weren't running perfectly - frame cap on 60 with nVidia control panel or RTSS rather than with in game options smooths the frame time graph even more.