SLI Sync, Voltage Limit? Stutter in games. MSI Afterburner

[LinkedPc]

I've noticed that the SLI Sync and Voltage Limit sections are at 0 when I'm playing normally but when I start to stutter they fluctuate to 1, what are these things? Also my gpu usage seems to be higher around 50-60 with no stutter and around 35-43 when stuttering.

Here's a link to my MSI afterburner HW monitoring file. (ZIP file one when stuttering and one when playing normally, Virustotal link, no these files are not a virus)

The game played was CS:GO, and also the sudden drops are when I use the SHIFT TAB feature in game or when I tabbed out to my desktop. I can get a more "stable" monitoring file if you guys need, with me not tabbing in and out.

Specs:
CPU: Core I5 3570
MOBO: MSI H77-G43
GPU: EVGA GTX 950FTW
RAM: G. Skill Sniper 16GB
Storage: Crucial BX100 120GB, 1TB Caviar Blue, 2x Seagate 500GB SSHD
PSU: EVGA 650 GQ
Cooling: Hyper 212 EVO

 

[Jayhawker32]

SLI Sync and Voltage limit are performance limits basically. For both of these 0 means "False" and 1 means "True". So when you get 1 for either of those it means you're hitting the limits. SLI: this is basically saying that what is limiting your performance is the SLI transfer rate. How quickly they can communicate and render frames. Voltage Limit: Essentially the card is running at the max voltage allowed by your GPU BIOS and this is limiting it from higher power outputs. Not a bad thing something has to be a limiting factor otherwise you would hit infinite frame rates. I don't know why the Steam overlay causing stuttering.

Update: One thing I read was if you use the FPS counter overlay that steam offers that can cause stuttering. So disable that if you use it and that can help.

 

[17seconds]

I'm wondering why you have a readout saying "SLI Sync", when your specs indicate you are on a single card. I would target that as a possible source of your problem. Seems like maybe a fresh driver install is in order.

Edit: I just checked out my Afterburner and I see that you can enable the SLI Sync graph on any system. You may be having more of a voltage problem then. It should be rare/impossible to hit that limit when playing at stock settings. What are some of your other readouts, GPU usage, Temp Limit?

 

[LinkedPc]

SLI Sync and Voltage limit are performance limits basically. For both of these 0 means "False" and 1 means "True". So when you get 1 for either of those it means you're hitting the limits. SLI: this is basically saying that what is limiting your performance is the SLI transfer rate. How quickly they can communicate and render frames. Voltage Limit: Essentially the card is running at the max voltage allowed by your GPU BIOS and this is limiting it from higher power outputs. Not a bad thing something has to be a limiting factor otherwise you would hit infinite frame rates. I don't know why the Steam overlay causing stuttering.

Update: One thing I read was if you use the FPS counter overlay that steam offers that can cause stuttering. So disable that if you use it and that can help.

I dont use the fps counter, and also I'm on a single gpu which makes this strange. Also the tabbing isnt a issue I just stated that because if you look on the graphs there is a sudden drop and I just wanted to make it clear that, that was just me tabbing out. (so gpu and cpu usage should drop, and you should ignore those parts)

 

[LinkedPc]

I'm wondering why you have a readout saying "SLI Sync", when your specs indicate you are on a single card. I would target that as a possible source of your problem. Seems like maybe a fresh driver install is in order.

Edit: I just checked out my Afterburner and I see that you can enable the SLI Sync graph on any system. You may be having more of a voltage problem then. It should be rare/impossible to hit that limit when playing at stock settings. What are some of your other readouts, GPU usage, Temp Limit?

So yeah I am on a single gpu and I don't wanna ignore the sli limit completely BECAUSE there is a change from when I'm lagging to when I'm not lagging. Like stated before "I've noticed that the SLI Sync and Voltage Limit sections are at 0 when I'm playing normally (no stutter) but when I start to stutter they fluctuate to 1".

Also like stated before, the gpu usage on avg (in csgo) is around 50-60 but when stuttering it drops to around 35-43. Please try downloading my hwmonitoring file and take a look on after burner. (As I cannot name ALL the statistics)