I have been getting very low 1% and 0.1% FPS numbers that cause stuttering, when otherwise getting a solid 60+ FPS (often having it capped at 60)
It's across multiple games and now also multiple rigs with completely different hardware. In some rigs it has been more frequent/pronounced then others, but has been present in all. My 1% and 0.1% lows drop to 5-25, while I can maintain an FPS at above 60 and even average FPS remains high. I have noticed it tends to coincide with a frametime spike and some kind of CPU ms spike (looking at the Assasins Creed Performance panel thing).
Using MSI afterburner none of the hardware is usually even above 70% usage when this happens. (Monitoring RAM, CPU (all cores), and GPU) Temps essentially never get above 70 c.
It tends to happen more frequently when in urban areas, or when there are multiple "people" in an area/battlefield (be it a strategy game, or RPG etc...) Although this is not always the case as it happens otherwise as well. So far I've noticed it in Assasins Creed Odyssey, Fallout 4 (vanilla not nearly as bad a modded), Total War Warhammer 2, Arma 3, The Witcher 3 and Kingdom Come deliverance. Some are worse than others. Heavily modded Fallout 4 is by far the worst. (All of these games have run through Steam)
I have tried changing so many options and optimizing in so many ways.
Could it be that all of the PSUs were not good quality?
Power Reporting Deviation is quite bad:
https://ibb.co/NV1st4w
My current Specs: (The image is HWinfo)
https://ibb.co/bzyzgRf
Previous PC (same issues):
CPU: i5 9600k
GPU : rx660xt 8GB
RAM: Corsair 16GB 2666Mhz Ram (it's 4000MHZ RAM, but the CPU and MOBO have it clocked at this, hwinfo also says it's running in dual channel 18-18-18-43)
Storage: 500GB nvme samsung evo 970 (OS is on this as well as the games I am trying)
MOBO: MSI B365M PRO-VH (MS-7C31)
PSU: EVGA 600W
Various Benchmark results (only of current rig):
3DMark11
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/14920864
CPU-Z
https://valid.x86.fr/0d8b5h
UserBenchmark
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/51829928
Things I have tried:
-Locking FPS
-Vysnc on/off (as well as third party enforcement of it)
-High Performance mode
-Disable Fast boot
-AMD enhanced performance
-Even trying lowest settings in game(s)
-Fullscreen and borderless windowed mode
-OC RAM
-Different monitors
-Different rooms
-Updating drivers
-freesync
-w controller/without controller
-various BIOS settings
-uninstalling MSI afterburner and RivaTuner
-updated BIOS, GPU drivers, Chipset drivers
It's across multiple games and now also multiple rigs with completely different hardware. In some rigs it has been more frequent/pronounced then others, but has been present in all. My 1% and 0.1% lows drop to 5-25, while I can maintain an FPS at above 60 and even average FPS remains high. I have noticed it tends to coincide with a frametime spike and some kind of CPU ms spike (looking at the Assasins Creed Performance panel thing).
Using MSI afterburner none of the hardware is usually even above 70% usage when this happens. (Monitoring RAM, CPU (all cores), and GPU) Temps essentially never get above 70 c.
It tends to happen more frequently when in urban areas, or when there are multiple "people" in an area/battlefield (be it a strategy game, or RPG etc...) Although this is not always the case as it happens otherwise as well. So far I've noticed it in Assasins Creed Odyssey, Fallout 4 (vanilla not nearly as bad a modded), Total War Warhammer 2, Arma 3, The Witcher 3 and Kingdom Come deliverance. Some are worse than others. Heavily modded Fallout 4 is by far the worst. (All of these games have run through Steam)
I have tried changing so many options and optimizing in so many ways.
Could it be that all of the PSUs were not good quality?
Power Reporting Deviation is quite bad:
https://ibb.co/NV1st4w
My current Specs: (The image is HWinfo)
https://ibb.co/bzyzgRf
Previous PC (same issues):
CPU: i5 9600k
GPU : rx660xt 8GB
RAM: Corsair 16GB 2666Mhz Ram (it's 4000MHZ RAM, but the CPU and MOBO have it clocked at this, hwinfo also says it's running in dual channel 18-18-18-43)
Storage: 500GB nvme samsung evo 970 (OS is on this as well as the games I am trying)
MOBO: MSI B365M PRO-VH (MS-7C31)
PSU: EVGA 600W
Various Benchmark results (only of current rig):
3DMark11
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/14920864
CPU-Z
https://valid.x86.fr/0d8b5h
UserBenchmark
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/51829928
Things I have tried:
-Locking FPS
-Vysnc on/off (as well as third party enforcement of it)
-High Performance mode
-Disable Fast boot
-AMD enhanced performance
-Even trying lowest settings in game(s)
-Fullscreen and borderless windowed mode
-OC RAM
-Different monitors
-Different rooms
-Updating drivers
-freesync
-w controller/without controller
-various BIOS settings
-uninstalling MSI afterburner and RivaTuner
-updated BIOS, GPU drivers, Chipset drivers
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