Question Micro stutters in games and also Windows

[icy_fox]

Hey there! Recently, I have been having micro stutters in games, even though there are no noticable FPS drops. These drops happen especially when something physical appears on screen (a new enemy or the Enemy Slain sign in League of Legends) and can sometimes be seen as a frame spike on the graph, but not always. Reducing the visual quality doesn't improve it, so I'm not really sure this is a GPU issue to begin with. It's a fresh install of Windows with drivers uninstalled with DDU several times, I have also tried different versions of drivers, but nothings seems to work. Does anyone have any ideas what the problem could be?

P.S. also tried detecting the problem with Latencymon, in most games the Highest reported DCP routine seems nvlddmkm.sys, while specifically in League of Legends, it is dxgkrnl.sys. Don't know if it matters, the latency is around 400,7 microseconds for both...

Thanks for any suggestions on diagnosing or fixing the issue!

 

[AlexTheFern]

what is your ram speed?

actually whole system specs

 

[icy_fox]

what is your ram speed?

Ryzen 5 2600
Asus Prime B450-M
2x8 GB T-Group VulcanZ DDR4 running at 3000 Mhz
KFA2 GTX 1660

 

[AlexTheFern]

do you have v-sync/g-sync enabled?

 

[icy_fox]

do you have v-sync/g-sync enabled?

No, V-Sync does make it a little better but is really bad for games like League due to the latency it introduces

 

[AlexTheFern]

open this and run it for a few minutes and see how many micro stutters it detects

close other apps if you can

 

[icy_fox]

open this and run it for a few minutes and see how many micro stutters it detects

close other apps if you can

Sorry for the question, I might be dumb, but do I have to press any button to run it? Can't seem to find anywhere to count it haha

 

[AlexTheFern]

Sorry for the question, I might be dumb, but do I have to press any button to run it? Can't seem to find anywhere to count it haha

no worries! it runs by itself, and where it says ready it will say how many stutters u get.

 

[ChrisAB]

Have u tried upgrading Video Card drivers?

 

[icy_fox]

no worries! it runs by itself, and where it says ready it will say how many stutters u get.

Running for a solid 10 minutes it still says Ready, so I'm guessing no stutters?

 

[icy_fox]

Have u tried upgrading Video Card drivers?

Yes, also tried different versions of older drivers uninstalling previous ones with DDU, but didn't help

 

[AlexTheFern]

Running for a solid 10 minutes it still says Ready, so I'm guessing no stutters?

yup no stutters

 

[AlexTheFern]

it might be a game thing, not a whole pc thing

do you have v sync enabled within the games?

 

[icy_fox]

it might be a game thing, not a whole pc thing

do you have v sync enabled within the games?

It's happening in Windows too, when scrolling or moving windows around... I have v sync on in most games, and it makes it better but doesn't fix it. However, in more competitive games, v sync is not an option due to the added latency...

 

[AlexTheFern]

i was going to say you should have v sync off

 

[icy_fox]

i was going to say you should have v sync off

v sync off sadly makes it even worse...