Question How to fix micro stuttering with my RTX 4060 ?

[darceyo]

Hi. I just built my new PC (all parts is new) and when I've played few games, I have noticed that all of them have micro fps drops. I have 240hz monitor, and in the games I had about 120-240 fps, but sometimes it is just dropping like to 0 fps for one moment and the Frametime is going to be x10 bigger.

View: https://youtu.be/4kLiODfOu-w

PC Specs:
GPU: RTX 4060
CPU: I5-14500
MB: ASRock B760 Pro RS (with the latest BIOS v.11.01)
RAM: 32GB Kingston Fury DDR5-5600 (4800)
SSD: Samsung 990 Evo 1TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4/5.0 x2 (latest firmware)
PSU: Seasonic B12-BC-650 650 W

Please, help me to solve it, I'm really disappointed at this moment. I've tried to re-install Nvidia driver, CPU graphics drivers, disabled V-sync and G-sync in all the games, changed XMP profiles in the BIOS, tried both DP and HDMI, limited the FPS to 120 instead of 240, turned off the E-cores on my CPU, disabled iGPU (CPU graphics), disabled Rebar in BIOS, re-installed Windows 11, disabled hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling in Windows. Nothing! Nothing helped...

I don't really want to return my GPU, I just want to find the solution

 

[MrstimX]

this is pretty hard since youre pushing very high frames. I assume you're also sensitive to frame spikes. It's likely something couldn't keep up. e.g your cpu needed more data, which it had to get from RAM, which added some latency in generating the next frame.
If you can return hardware, try getting a 14600K and DDR5-6000 cl30 ram and see if the issue goes away., if not, return it.

 

[geofelt]

Stuttering is caused by a temporary lack of a critical resource. Usually CPU.
On occasion, insufficient ram.

Check to see what other apps are running at the same time.
A higher priority app like performance monitors, driver utilities, motherboard utilities or even discord can interrupt the game processor.

 

[darceyo]

Stuttering is caused by a temporary lack of a critical resource. Usually CPU.
On occasion, insufficient ram.

Check to see what other apps are running at the same time.
A higher priority app like performance monitors, driver utilities, motherboard utilities or even discord can interrupt the game processor.

CPU loaded for ~25% at max. Temperatures is about 45℃ (~25% usage) for CPU, and 70℃ (~100%) for GPU.
About 11/32gb RAM used.
Also, 4/8gb VRAM used in my current games.

All looks pretty good on these numbers and that's why it is very hard to find the root of that problem...

 

[darceyo]

this is pretty hard since youre pushing very high frames. I assume you're also sensitive to frame spikes. It's likely something couldn't keep up. e.g your cpu needed more data, which it had to get from RAM, which added some latency in generating the next frame.
If you can return hardware, try getting a 14600K and DDR5-6000 cl30 ram and see if the issue goes away., if not, return it.

Do you think if I will limit the FPS to 240 or 120, it will affect the gameplay in the good way?

 

[geofelt]

A i5-14500 has 20 processing threads.
If the master thread of a game is 100% busy, that could be your limiter and only represent a fraction of the total cpu utilization.

 

[MrstimX]

Do you think if I will limit the FPS to 240 or 120, it will affect the gameplay in the good way?

yes, limit fps to 120 and it's likely you will see the stutters go away

 

[darceyo]

yes, limit fps to 120 and it's likely you will see the stutters go away

Just limited it to 120 fps and still have these stutters:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kLiODfOu-w

 

[darceyo]

A i5-14500 has 20 processing threads.
If the master thread of a game is 100% busy, that could be your limiter and only represent a fraction of the total cpu utilization.

Here's the Afterburner data exactly at the moment of the micro stutter.
At this time my FPS was limited to 120 instead of 240 frames, but I still have these problems.

 

[SkyNetRising]

At this time my FPS was limited to 120 instead of 240 frames, but I still have these problems.

Set V-Sync to adaptive.

 

[darceyo]

Set V-Sync to adaptive.

I have only these options:

 

[SkyNetRising]

I have only these options:

Install latest Geforce drivers.
Use clean install option.

 

[darceyo]

Install latest Geforce drivers.
Use clean install option.

I have the latest Nvidia Studio driver. Just tried the Studio driver because Game Ready drivers was unstable for me, I had even more fps drops.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I have the latest Nvidia Studio driver. Just tried the Studio driver because Game Ready drivers was unstable for me, I had even more fps drops.

Did you use clean install option?

 

[darceyo]

Did you use clean install option?

Yes, always. Oh I think it's because I have G-sync enabled.

UPD: I just tested it with disabled G-sync and enabled V-sync in adaptive mode, and results almost the same. But on adaptive V-sync the framerate is so unstable and looks like fast pulse on the graph.

 

[MrstimX]

does this happen in all games even when not recording gameplay? tbh, I hardly noticed it in the videos.
The only things i can think of are
1. disable e-cores in bios and try again
2. upgrade to win11 if you're on windows 10. cpu thread scheduling for ecores works better on windows 11.
3. run the game, run gpu-z, log sensors to file and after you see the stutters happen, look at the log file especially perfcap reason which might give a hint

 

[darceyo]

does this happen in all games even when not recording gameplay? tbh, I hardly noticed it in the videos.
The only things i can think of are
1. disable e-cores in bios and try again
2. upgrade to win11 if you're on windows 10. cpu thread scheduling for ecores works better on windows 11.
3. run the game, run gpu-z, log sensors to file and after you see the stutters happen, look at the log file especially perfcap reason which might give a hint

1. tried to disable, it is not helped
2. i'm on win11
3. perfcap is always set to "power"

 

[darceyo]

Is there any other thing I could try to do?