[SOLVED] How to eliminate stutter?

[Sangwel]

Specs:
ASUS ROG FX503VM
Intel i5 7300hq
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
4gb RAM

My laptop stutters when I play Sims 4 and other lightweight games and stutters extremely on high end games.

Benchmarking sites says my specs are good enough to run the games I downloaded but still, even tweaking the game settings to low, it still stutters

Pls help me

 

[rgd1101]

4GB ram?

 

[Pat Flynn]

Does it matter if the power is plugged in, and the battery is at full? When running on the battery, the CPU and GPU don't get as much juice as when the whole power system is running. Most gaming notebooks will supplement power spikes from the battery, and without it being charged and the power adapter connected you could see stuttering.

Only thing I can suggest if this is the case is to make sure your battery is always charged, run with power cable, and if it's still happening - update all the drivers, but try other OEM's. Example would be to get chipset drivers direct from Intel, GPU drivers direct from Nvidia. Just please, DO NOT use a driver update utility. These are terrible for mixing and matching OEM drivers which may or may not be custom tailored to another piece of hardware and can cause all kinds of issues!

 

[Sangwel]

Does it matter if the power is plugged in, and the battery is at full? When running on the battery, the CPU and GPU don't get as much juice as when the whole power system is running. Most gaming notebooks will supplement power spikes from the battery, and without it being charged and the power adapter connected you could see stuttering.

Only thing I can suggest if this is the case is to make sure your battery is always charged, run with power cable, and if it's still happening - update all the drivers, but try other OEM's. Example would be to get chipset drivers direct from Intel, GPU drivers direct from Nvidia. Just please, DO NOT use a driver update utility. These are terrible for mixing and matching OEM drivers which may or may not be custom tailored to another piece of hardware and can cause all kinds of issues!

Even when I'm plugged in, its still stuttering. I even Overclocked the gpu to make the GTA V run smoothly, but it still stutters

 

[Sangwel]

4GB ram?

Yes

 

[rgd1101]

you need about 16GB these day

 

[Pat Flynn]

you need about 16GB these day

Not necessarily, but 4GB is really on the low end. There's a good chance the OS is using 'virtual memory', or in layman's terms using part of your hard drive as 'ram'. Any time it needs to read or write to this virtual space it will certainly cause stuttering. Only things I can think of to test this involve adding/changing hardware - you can try another 4GB stick (take it up to 8GB total, this should be fine for most games), or if you are currently using a mechanical hard drive try upgrading to an SSD. It may not eliminate your stuttering, but it will improve it drastically (as well as vastly reduce boot & game/software load times). Best option would be both if you are able to afford it

 

[AnotherPCuser]

4GB ram should technically be okay/enough but these days a lot of programs use up a lot of RAM. Make sure all programs and browsers (like Google Chrome, known for its high RAM usage, especially when viewing videos) are closed and close any background programs that you aren't using, like Skype, Onedrive and etc. (You can find them in the upwards-facing arrow on the right side of the taskbar that says "show hidden icons". Then right click on the program icon to exit or close it.)

Open Task Manager (just type task manager on the start menu to find it), go to the "Performance" tab and click on "Memory" to see how much of RAM your laptop is using. You can use it to check your disk and cpu usage as well. On the "Processes" tab, you can click on "Memory" to see which programs are using the most of your RAM and etc.

If your laptop is still using more than 50-60% of your RAM even though all programs are closed, try restarting your laptop. That should do the trick.

(Just realised that this thread is a more than a week old but oh well 😅)