How bad is micro studering?

[cburke82]

Im new to this. But thinking to the future would like to add another 6950 to the mix. So what sort of issues can I expect and how bad will the MS be in most games?

 

[ubercake]

The thing is, when you run with it off, you can tell the difference (when it's not tearing). A product of vsync is a decrease in video responsiveness. The flickering you see is probably not really micro stuttering, but due to bad drivers. AMD cleared this up in NBA2K11 while I was still running a crossfire setup. This was great, but I was always waiting for next month's drivers to fix everything else. They had yet to fix it with BFBC2 (after 10 months/driver releases) and MOH (after 4 months/driver releases) and that just ticked me off:

A good definition of micro stuttering (notice it doesn't say anything about a monitor):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_stuttering

I do like my AMD single-card setups, but for multi-card setups, this is why I now roll with SLI.

 

[jjb8675309]

^^thanks that is a good definition, and just ignore the pm then but man.... I am seriously considering selling my 6870s and getting a single 6970 or gtx 580 what do you think? does a 7200 rpm HDD or only having 4 gigs of ram ddr3 1600 cause this sort of thing or is that not the issue? I feel like some info is not being fed to the gpus fast enough... any thoughts uber? I am also running a 955 @ 4 gigs so I think the CPU should be good, im just looking for higher minimum fps which the crossfire 6870s seem to be lacking no matter what drivers I am using, what would you or anyone do i this situation? Good lord I just want to play some freaking games with maxed out details at 1080p is that too much to ask...

 

[Mousemonkey]

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