[SOLVED] Stuttering in Games like GTA V Online and Fortnite

vkrugmann2003

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Hello,

I have pursuaded my little brother to build a PC. He didn't want to spend much money so I told him to buy an old prebuilt and put a gtx 750ti inside. So now he has a Dell Optiplex 780 with a Q6600 4GB 1600Mhz DDR3 Ram and a Inno3D GTX 750ti.

I feel really bad, since I told him he will get near XBOX and PS4 performance, but if I watch him playing it stutters a lot. I would say he has an average of 50 FPS in the settings I set up for him at GTA V, but it just drops to 0 FPS too many times, to have an enjoyable time playing.

In Story mode he gets a constant 60FPS and no stutters, I think he can get more, but I limited his Framerate to 60 with RivaTSS, since his Monitor only displays 60Hz.

P.S.:
Before it was worse, it got better after replacing thermal paste on CPU and GPU. I also have reseated his RAM.
 
Solution

Well this will be interesting. If you don't mind being a guinea pig, I've been curious if the 7200 RPM WD Blue drives also suffer the head parking issue which causes stuttering in games (and also on the desktop). I know all the 5400 RPM WD drives have the problem, including the 5400 RPM WD Blue drives. But yours is the first chance I've had to test it on a 7200 RPM WD Blue drive.

Follow my instructions in this post. Create and run the batch file to keep the HDD heads from parking. See if that makes the stutters go away.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3291249/hdd-giving-problems-games.html#19105974


He uses a WD Blue 7.2k RPM 250GB HDD
If you need the exact model number I can also take a look.
 

Well this will be interesting. If you don't mind being a guinea pig, I've been curious if the 7200 RPM WD Blue drives also suffer the head parking issue which causes stuttering in games (and also on the desktop). I know all the 5400 RPM WD drives have the problem, including the 5400 RPM WD Blue drives. But yours is the first chance I've had to test it on a 7200 RPM WD Blue drive.

Follow my instructions in this post. Create and run the batch file to keep the HDD heads from parking. See if that makes the stutters go away.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3291249/hdd-giving-problems-games.html#19105974
 
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