- Jun 30, 2017
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Hi everyone,
I've been having this issue for a while and I'm really starting to lose my mind over it. Basically, in some games (about 30% of games I play at least, and I play a lot of different games), regardless of how demanding or old or optimised they may be, whenever something is loaded in real-time (ie, not during a loading screen, but say, a voice line that someone says) the game will stutter the first time it's loaded. Here's a few examples:
Killing Floor 2: Without fail, the first time I blow up an enemy's head it will ALWAYS stutter. It will also always stutter when I finish a game (as in win, I'm using the tutorial to test this as it's only 2 waves long).
Monster Hunter World: Will always without fail stutter whenever ANYONE faints, myself or otherwise. In fact I look for stutter now to see if someone's fainted rather than looking for messages. It's quite sad.
Resident Evil 6: It'll just stutter when someone says a voice line as part of the story.
Resident Evil Revelations 2: same as above.
Darksiders Warmastered Edition: It'll stutter when loading a new area.
Racedriver GRID (a game from 2007!): It'll stutter when my co-driver says something for the first time or when music begins to start playing. REALLY irritating as dramatic music always kicks in during the last 3 minutes of Le-Mans, which is a 24-minute race and it nearly always causes me to mess up.
The Longest Journey (FROM 1999!): Lags like every 3 or 4 voice lines, especially if I'm skipping them before they finish. In a game that's 80% listening to dialogue, it's irritating as hell.
Puyo Puyo Tetris: Whenever a new song starts playing. Incredibly frustrating in a game that needs to be stable at all times.
World of Final Fantasy: when opening some menus and when loading some voice lines.
When I say "loading" voice lines or music, I mean right before they play in the game. These are just some examples. These are tiny stutters, I'd say like a quarter to half of a second, but they're so damn frustrating. These are all different types of games from a nearly 20 year period. I could understand if it was just some of the later games, but The Longest Journey?!
The thing that annoys me the most is that it seems just random if a game will have this problem or not. I don't have any stutter in GRID 2, but in GRID 1 which is far less demanding I do? I can play Final Fantasy XIV, a modern MMO without a single sliver of lag, yet a POINT AND CLICK GAME FROM 1999 will lag on every third or fourth voice line? It never happens in Overwatch either, but it happens in Resident Evil 6 which is far less demanding.
NOTE: this is NOT a performance issue. I can run all these games on max settings and (with the exception of MHW) get framerates into triple digits consistently. It's the stuttering that's the issue.
DXDIAG: http://m.uploadedit.com/bbtc/1541159515797.txt
My specs:
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070
RAM: 8GB
CPU: i5 4690K
HDD: 500GB SSD with OS, 3.6 GB HDD for storage
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit 17134
MOBO: Gigabyte H97N WiFi
Monitor: ViewSonic VX2257
Honestly, I've tried so many different things that I've forgotten what I've tried, but here goes:
I'm willing to try anything else. If there's any other diagnostics I can run please let me know. If someone can troll through my dxdiag and spot something out of the ordinary that would be wonderful. Thanks in advance for the help.
I've been having this issue for a while and I'm really starting to lose my mind over it. Basically, in some games (about 30% of games I play at least, and I play a lot of different games), regardless of how demanding or old or optimised they may be, whenever something is loaded in real-time (ie, not during a loading screen, but say, a voice line that someone says) the game will stutter the first time it's loaded. Here's a few examples:
Killing Floor 2: Without fail, the first time I blow up an enemy's head it will ALWAYS stutter. It will also always stutter when I finish a game (as in win, I'm using the tutorial to test this as it's only 2 waves long).
Monster Hunter World: Will always without fail stutter whenever ANYONE faints, myself or otherwise. In fact I look for stutter now to see if someone's fainted rather than looking for messages. It's quite sad.
Resident Evil 6: It'll just stutter when someone says a voice line as part of the story.
Resident Evil Revelations 2: same as above.
Darksiders Warmastered Edition: It'll stutter when loading a new area.
Racedriver GRID (a game from 2007!): It'll stutter when my co-driver says something for the first time or when music begins to start playing. REALLY irritating as dramatic music always kicks in during the last 3 minutes of Le-Mans, which is a 24-minute race and it nearly always causes me to mess up.
The Longest Journey (FROM 1999!): Lags like every 3 or 4 voice lines, especially if I'm skipping them before they finish. In a game that's 80% listening to dialogue, it's irritating as hell.
Puyo Puyo Tetris: Whenever a new song starts playing. Incredibly frustrating in a game that needs to be stable at all times.
World of Final Fantasy: when opening some menus and when loading some voice lines.
When I say "loading" voice lines or music, I mean right before they play in the game. These are just some examples. These are tiny stutters, I'd say like a quarter to half of a second, but they're so damn frustrating. These are all different types of games from a nearly 20 year period. I could understand if it was just some of the later games, but The Longest Journey?!
The thing that annoys me the most is that it seems just random if a game will have this problem or not. I don't have any stutter in GRID 2, but in GRID 1 which is far less demanding I do? I can play Final Fantasy XIV, a modern MMO without a single sliver of lag, yet a POINT AND CLICK GAME FROM 1999 will lag on every third or fourth voice line? It never happens in Overwatch either, but it happens in Resident Evil 6 which is far less demanding.
NOTE: this is NOT a performance issue. I can run all these games on max settings and (with the exception of MHW) get framerates into triple digits consistently. It's the stuttering that's the issue.
DXDIAG: http://m.uploadedit.com/bbtc/1541159515797.txt
My specs:
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070
RAM: 8GB
CPU: i5 4690K
HDD: 500GB SSD with OS, 3.6 GB HDD for storage
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit 17134
MOBO: Gigabyte H97N WiFi
Monitor: ViewSonic VX2257
Honestly, I've tried so many different things that I've forgotten what I've tried, but here goes:
Defragging the drive the games are on (majority are on my HDD for storage reasons)
Moving the games to my SSD to see if it's my HDD that's the problem (issue still happens)
Replacing HDD (my current HDD is now less than 2 months old)
Disabling all my sound devices (seeing as most of the lags are audio streaming related, didn't work)
Using RAMMap to empty standby list (as suggested here https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/8cdzsb/are_your_games_stuttering_lately/)
Checking my temps - my CPU never goes over 70 and my GPU never goes over 80 (most demanding game is Monster Hunter World at the moment), I monitor my temps with GPUTemp and CoreTemp
Making sure any power saving settings are turned off in BIOS, Windows 10 itself (Power Saving profiles have everything at max) and Nvidia control panel (ie using prefer maximum performance instead of power saving mode, et cetera)
Fresh install of Windows 10
Got a new aftermarket cooler for CPU and applied new thermal paste to CPU
Video card drivers are up to date
Turning adaptive vsync on and off
Messing around with different Vsync options in general
Changing my refresh rate to 60hz (default is 75hz)
Turned off game DVR and all other Xbox garbage
Run sfc scannow with all its variatins like a billion times
Turned off diagnostic services
Reinstalling the games
I am definitely using my GPU and not my integrated graphics card (again, not a performance issue)
DirectX runtime libraries are up to date
Performing a clean boot - disabling all optional startup programs
Trying safe mode
I'm willing to try anything else. If there's any other diagnostics I can run please let me know. If someone can troll through my dxdiag and spot something out of the ordinary that would be wonderful. Thanks in advance for the help.
, causing the issue to come back and frustrating me greatly. 
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