games stuttering, FPS drops

[Usman Anwar]

lately my games have been stuttering a lot, especially The Division. i updated the drivers for 2,3 months with windows 10 for GTX 970.
can anyone tell me why are the games stuttering ?

 

[Hlsgsz]

Well make sure you are always on the latest drivers, not ones from 2-3 months ago.

 

[Usman Anwar]

Well make sure you are always on the latest drivers, not ones from 2-3 months ago.

i have installed the latest driver & on that drivers its stuttering a lot.
on the older drivers, the games were working fine.

 

[Hlsgsz]

Try turning off V-Sync or, better yet setting it to "adaptive vsync" in Nvidia control panel.

 

[Usman Anwar]

Try turning off V-Sync or, better yet setting it to "adaptive vsync" in Nvidia control panel.

i did turned off the v-sync in the nvidia control panel; it still is stuttering

 

[Hlsgsz]

Is your system drive getting full?

 

[Usman Anwar]

Is your system drive getting full?

u mean the C drive of windows ?

 

[Hlsgsz]

Is your system drive getting full?

u mean the C drive of windows ?

Yeah. Also, how's your ram usage and temps?

 

[Usman Anwar]

Is your system drive getting full?

u mean the C drive of windows ?

Yeah. Also, how's your ram usage and temps?

no, the C drive still has 31 GB free space.
i haven't checked the temps, but i think the RAM is working fine; its the driver thats causing the problem

 

[Hlsgsz]

Hmm. I'd be surprised.
Have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6agsI3syryM

 

[Usman Anwar]

Hmm. I'd be surprised.
Have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6agsI3syryM

i'll try that.
coming to the GPU temp,
the min temp was 43 degree Celsius & the Max temp was 73-77 degree Celsius, while i was gaming The Division

 

[Hlsgsz]

Hmm. I'd be surprised.
Have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6agsI3syryM

i'll try that.
coming to the GPU temp,
the min temp was 43 degree Celsius & the Max temp was 73-77 degree Celsius, while i was gaming The Division

Temps are ok. See if teh stuff in that video helps any.

 

[Usman Anwar]

Hmm. I'd be surprised.
Have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6agsI3syryM

i'll try that.
coming to the GPU temp,
the min temp was 43 degree Celsius & the Max temp was 73-77 degree Celsius, while i was gaming The Division

Temps are ok. See if teh stuff in that video helps any.

yeah, i applied the fix from the video. it has only lowered the stuttering frequency but the problem still persists.
i googled the problem & asked some players. they all are saying that its the game itself that's causing the problems.
i forgot to tell u one thing, the problem only occurs when i play the Dark Zone Multiplayer. In single player, the game works fine

 

[Hlsgsz]

Hmm. I'd be surprised.
Have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6agsI3syryM

i'll try that.
coming to the GPU temp,
the min temp was 43 degree Celsius & the Max temp was 73-77 degree Celsius, while i was gaming The Division

Temps are ok. See if teh stuff in that video helps any.

yeah, i applied the fix from the video. it has only lowered the stuttering frequency but the problem still persists.
i googled the problem & asked some players. they all are saying that its the game itself that's causing the problems.
i forgot to tell u one thing, the problem only occurs when i play the Dark Zone Multiplayer. In single player, the game works fine

You should have mentioned this from teh start. It's defionitely not the drivers. It's a CPU limit. Either it's not capable and/or teh game is poorly optimized or your CPU is thermal throtteling.
Monitor your temps with Hwmonitor.
What is your CPU, btw?

 

[Usman Anwar]

Hmm. I'd be surprised.
Have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6agsI3syryM

i'll try that.
coming to the GPU temp,
the min temp was 43 degree Celsius & the Max temp was 73-77 degree Celsius, while i was gaming The Division

Temps are ok. See if teh stuff in that video helps any.

yeah, i applied the fix from the video. it has only lowered the stuttering frequency but the problem still persists.
i googled the problem & asked some players. they all are saying that its the game itself that's causing the problems.
i forgot to tell u one thing, the problem only occurs when i play the Dark Zone Multiplayer. In single player, the game works fine

You should have mentioned this from teh start. It's defionitely not the drivers. It's a CPU limit. Either it's not capable and/or teh game is poorly optimized or your CPU is thermal throtteling.
Monitor your temps with Hwmonitor.
What is your CPU, btw?

today, for the 1st time, the same problem occured when i was playing GTA V Online, after playing for 1.5 hours.

 

[Hlsgsz]

Hmm. I'd be surprised.
Have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6agsI3syryM

i'll try that.
coming to the GPU temp,
the min temp was 43 degree Celsius & the Max temp was 73-77 degree Celsius, while i was gaming The Division

Temps are ok. See if teh stuff in that video helps any.

yeah, i applied the fix from the video. it has only lowered the stuttering frequency but the problem still persists.
i googled the problem & asked some players. they all are saying that its the game itself that's causing the problems.
i forgot to tell u one thing, the problem only occurs when i play the Dark Zone Multiplayer. In single player, the game works fine

You should have mentioned this from teh start. It's defionitely not the drivers. It's a CPU limit. Either it's not capable and/or teh game is poorly optimized or your CPU is thermal throtteling.
Monitor your temps with Hwmonitor.
What is your CPU, btw?

today, for the 1st time, the same problem occured when i was playing GTA V Online, after playing for 1.5 hours.

Same story. GTA V is also CPU intensive.

 

[Usman Anwar]

Hmm. I'd be surprised.
Have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6agsI3syryM

i'll try that.
coming to the GPU temp,
the min temp was 43 degree Celsius & the Max temp was 73-77 degree Celsius, while i was gaming The Division

Temps are ok. See if teh stuff in that video helps any.

yeah, i applied the fix from the video. it has only lowered the stuttering frequency but the problem still persists.
i googled the problem & asked some players. they all are saying that its the game itself that's causing the problems.
i forgot to tell u one thing, the problem only occurs when i play the Dark Zone Multiplayer. In single player, the game works fine

You should have mentioned this from teh start. It's defionitely not the drivers. It's a CPU limit. Either it's not capable and/or teh game is poorly optimized or your CPU is thermal throtteling.
Monitor your temps with Hwmonitor.
What is your CPU, btw?

today, for the 1st time, the same problem occured when i was playing GTA V Online, after playing for 1.5 hours.

Same story. GTA V is also CPU intensive.

so what exactly is the problem ?
is it the hardware thats causing the problem or a software problem ?

 

[Hlsgsz]

Well, if you actually told me what your CPU is like i asked, i might have been able to further analyse this.
Actully, please list your entire config, PSU included.

 

[Usman Anwar]

Well, if you actually told me what your CPU is like i asked, i might have been able to further analyse this.
Actully, please list your entire config, PSU included.

Intel core i5 4690k at stock speed
Kingston 8GB Ram
Asus Strix GTX 970
Thermaltake DPS G 750w PSU

 

[Hlsgsz]

Your CPU is very capable. There must be somethign else going on.
What are your CPU temps while gaming and the RAM usage?
For safe measure, use DDU to clean your current display drivers: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
Then reinstall teh latest drivers from Nvidia.

 

[Usman Anwar]

Your CPU is very capable. There must be somethign else going on.
What are your CPU temps while gaming and the RAM usage?
For safe measure, use DDU to clean your current display drivers: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
Then reinstall teh latest drivers from Nvidia.

if i m not wrong, its 70%, tops.

 

[Usman Anwar]

Your CPU is very capable. There must be somethign else going on.
What are your CPU temps while gaming and the RAM usage?
For safe measure, use DDU to clean your current display drivers: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
Then reinstall teh latest drivers from Nvidia.

still the same problem.
i think i should revert back to Windows 7.
'coz ever since i installed the Anniversary update, the frequency of this stuttering has risen to its peak.
besides, windows 7 never gave me any problem like this

 

[leifus]

I am just curius, do you have the Xbox app installed on windows 10 or have you removed it?

 

[Usman Anwar]

I am just curius, do you have the Xbox app installed on windows 10 or have you removed it?

ya, its installed by default.

 

[Hlsgsz]

Your CPU is very capable. There must be somethign else going on.
What are your CPU temps while gaming and the RAM usage?
For safe measure, use DDU to clean your current display drivers: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
Then reinstall teh latest drivers from Nvidia.

still the same problem.
i think i should revert back to Windows 7.
'coz ever since i installed the Anniversary update, the frequency of this stuttering has risen to its peak.
besides, windows 7 never gave me any problem like this

Don't do that. W10 is a far superior OS. We'll get tothe bottom of this. there were some otehr thinhgs stated in my prev post.