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Hi all,
Hope you can help me:
(Important note: i could get a refund on my card so i got it, but i am still really interested on knowing why is this happening so i can buy a new one.)
-Since i bought my EVGA GTX 1060 i have had random stuttering, lag, frames drops on a lot of games:
-I had no problems with:
Things i have tried:
Info i have found:
Now let me explain:
Well, as i said maybe a first batch of cards-chips are faulty and some compensate it with an SSD and RAM, and others can't. Could it be?
Also i contacted NVIDIA for help and all they could say is that as my motherboard has PCIe 2.0, and Pascal "requires" (does it?) 3.0 that is all my problems from.
Asked someone and told me he has stuttering with 3.0 on the same games than me, fixed with an SSD.
Also searched for benchmarks and it should only be a slighty difference between 2.0 and 3.0 on a few games (but that should have lower performance, no stuttering, right?).
I contacted Ubisoft too, for The Division stuttering and they told me that it was the CPU, but again, i don't think this could cause stuttering, just a worse performance than others.
Also they told me that i should uninstall some programs (DAEMON Tools Lite, MSI Afterburner, Unigine Valley, Nero 10, MegaDownloader), i barely use them (never runing games) and i have disabled it on startup (task manager), so i think they should have no effect, am i wrong? (as i don't use them i think i can uninstall them and install them if i need them -one of them has never been used-).
So,
What do i do?
Do you know any test i could do to see if the GPU is faulty or if any other thing is causing this?
A lot of 1XXX are having problems without a cause?
Should I ask EVGA too?
Should i RMA (or buy the same model)? could newer cards be faulty too?
Do AMD-ATIs have these problems too? If they do why are there so little posts about them? if they don't have stuttering problems (unless faulty) what could be a quick recomendation for an ATI card? (will probably create a thread to find out anyway 😉 ).
Hope you can help me.
Thank you very much in advance.
My specs:
- Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R (DDR3-LGA 1366)
- Intel i7 930
- RAM G.Skill 3x2GB DDR3 1600 (F3 12800 CL 7-8-7-24 1.5v)
- Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus
- Lancool PC-K60 Dragonlord
- Seasonic X-650 Modular SS-650KM (80 Plus Hybrid-silent)
- Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB FAEX
- EVGA GTX 1060 SC 6GB (now: ATI HD6870)
- Windows 10
P.S. I accept advices on this OP if you think it can be done more clear to read 😉 .
Hi all,
Hope you can help me:
(Important note: i could get a refund on my card so i got it, but i am still really interested on knowing why is this happening so i can buy a new one.)
-Since i bought my EVGA GTX 1060 i have had random stuttering, lag, frames drops on a lot of games:
CS:GO, Killing Floor 2 (changing some things i have got a smoother framerate but still there), Solarix (first level with huge drops, second seems smooth), Black Mesa (mainly when loading enemies).
Also i had huge stuttering on games like The Division (Free weekends), Ghost Recon Wildlands Beta, Call of Duty Infinite Warfare, and Black ops 3 (Free weekends on both). On all these does not matter if it had highest posible settings or the lowest.
Also i had huge stuttering on games like The Division (Free weekends), Ghost Recon Wildlands Beta, Call of Duty Infinite Warfare, and Black ops 3 (Free weekends on both). On all these does not matter if it had highest posible settings or the lowest.
-I had no problems with:
DOOM demo, Steep Beta, Fallout 4 had some slowdowns when i was on a city (Steam free weekend) but were stable,...
I could play ARK and it only sutters when a new day starts.
I could play ARK and it only sutters when a new day starts.
Things i have tried:
-Uninstalled Geforce Experience: got a performance boost but still stutters.
-Several drivers "clean-installed" with DDU (only driver and Physx, but now i see Audio and 3D is installed too -Windows Update? anyway does not seem to affect-).
-On Nvidia Control Panel Set Maximun number of prerendered frames to 1: got rid of some stuttering, but not all.
-GPU and CPU temps are fine.
-Diabling all startup programs and all MSconfig services (no Microsoft ones, of course)
-MOST IMPORTANT: i installed my old ATI HD6870 and the stuttering on CSGO and Solarix is gone without a doubt and on Killing Floor 2 i think is better too but now i have some frame drops (no stuttering as i had with 1060, i am almost sure it is "stable" frame drops -bad optimization i guess-). Also i could play The Division (everything on low) in a pretty smooth way (usually below 30fps, but smooth, while the 1060 has stuttering even in low).
-Several drivers "clean-installed" with DDU (only driver and Physx, but now i see Audio and 3D is installed too -Windows Update? anyway does not seem to affect-).
-On Nvidia Control Panel Set Maximun number of prerendered frames to 1: got rid of some stuttering, but not all.
-GPU and CPU temps are fine.
-Diabling all startup programs and all MSconfig services (no Microsoft ones, of course)
-MOST IMPORTANT: i installed my old ATI HD6870 and the stuttering on CSGO and Solarix is gone without a doubt and on Killing Floor 2 i think is better too but now i have some frame drops (no stuttering as i had with 1060, i am almost sure it is "stable" frame drops -bad optimization i guess-). Also i could play The Division (everything on low) in a pretty smooth way (usually below 30fps, but smooth, while the 1060 has stuttering even in low).
Info i have found:
-A lot of people are having almost the same problems with almost the same games (can list some more if you want). All of them with different specs (some with way better specs).
-Some people "fixed" it changing HDD for SDD, others adding more RAM; on others these didn't work.
-Some say that anything lower than 6XX series (unsure about 7XX) work without a problem.
-Someone said he had these problems, did a RMA and got rid of them without doing anything else (waiting the report of someone else that is going to do the same).
-On the threads i have read i have not found a lot of users with ATIs with these stuttering problems. Maybe because there are less ATIs than NVIDIAS? But still very few ATis.
-Some people "fixed" it changing HDD for SDD, others adding more RAM; on others these didn't work.
-Some say that anything lower than 6XX series (unsure about 7XX) work without a problem.
-Someone said he had these problems, did a RMA and got rid of them without doing anything else (waiting the report of someone else that is going to do the same).
-On the threads i have read i have not found a lot of users with ATIs with these stuttering problems. Maybe because there are less ATIs than NVIDIAS? But still very few ATis.
Well, as i said maybe a first batch of cards-chips are faulty and some compensate it with an SSD and RAM, and others can't. Could it be?
Also i contacted NVIDIA for help and all they could say is that as my motherboard has PCIe 2.0, and Pascal "requires" (does it?) 3.0 that is all my problems from.
Asked someone and told me he has stuttering with 3.0 on the same games than me, fixed with an SSD.
Also searched for benchmarks and it should only be a slighty difference between 2.0 and 3.0 on a few games (but that should have lower performance, no stuttering, right?).
I contacted Ubisoft too, for The Division stuttering and they told me that it was the CPU, but again, i don't think this could cause stuttering, just a worse performance than others.
Also they told me that i should uninstall some programs (DAEMON Tools Lite, MSI Afterburner, Unigine Valley, Nero 10, MegaDownloader), i barely use them (never runing games) and i have disabled it on startup (task manager), so i think they should have no effect, am i wrong? (as i don't use them i think i can uninstall them and install them if i need them -one of them has never been used-).
So,
What do i do?
Do you know any test i could do to see if the GPU is faulty or if any other thing is causing this?
A lot of 1XXX are having problems without a cause?
Should I ask EVGA too?
Should i RMA (or buy the same model)? could newer cards be faulty too?
Do AMD-ATIs have these problems too? If they do why are there so little posts about them? if they don't have stuttering problems (unless faulty) what could be a quick recomendation for an ATI card? (will probably create a thread to find out anyway 😉 ).
Hope you can help me.
Thank you very much in advance.
My specs:
- Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R (DDR3-LGA 1366)
- Intel i7 930
- RAM G.Skill 3x2GB DDR3 1600 (F3 12800 CL 7-8-7-24 1.5v)
- Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus
- Lancool PC-K60 Dragonlord
- Seasonic X-650 Modular SS-650KM (80 Plus Hybrid-silent)
- Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB FAEX
- EVGA GTX 1060 SC 6GB (now: ATI HD6870)
- Windows 10
P.S. I accept advices on this OP if you think it can be done more clear to read 😉 .
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