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Hi, I recently built a new PC (first time) and whenever I try to play a game like Fort or Val I keep getting these stutters. I believe I do not have any overheating issues and I have all bios and drivers installed and seemingly tried everything online with no success.

Specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte A520I AC
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600
GPU: Powercolor RX 7600
RAM: Timetec Pinnacle Konduit 32GB Kit
PSU: MSI MAG A650BN 650w
SSD: Crucial P3 Plus 1TB

In a game like Fornite, according to the AMD software my CPU usage is around 30% with 60C temp and my GPU is around 14% with 47C temp. After reinstalling the AMD software it made it worse thoough.

Any advice?
 
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It's a new pc so maybe it's just the shaders compiling, especially since it got worse AFTER you reinstalled the drivers. Give it a few hours of play time and see if it gets better. Although, the GPU usage is a bit low at 14%, even for fortnite.
 
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icecreamagent said:
Hi, I recently built a new PC (first time) and whenever I try to play a game like fort or val I keep getting these stutters I believe I do not have any overheating issues and I have all bios and drivers installed and seemingly tried everything online with no success

Specs:
MSI MAG A650BN 650 W PSU
Gigabyte A520I AC
Timetec Pinnacle Konduit 32 GB kit
Ryzen 5 5600
Powercolor RX 7600
Crucial P3 Plus 1TB

For a game like Fornite according to the AMD software my CPU usage is around 30 persent with 60 degrees and my GPU is around 14 percent at 47 degrees. After reinstalling the AMD software it made it worse tho any advice
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Hello.

I am not sure coincidence this or not, I'm having the same processor "ryzen 5 5600" on cheap motherboard. I independently determined approximately that CPU in my system is giving a way. Try to fully disable pagefile.

To be honest, never loved amd much. Just like eh.
 
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icecreamagent said:
Hi, I recently built a new PC (first time) and whenever I try to play a game like fort or val I keep getting these stutters I believe I do not have any overheating issues and I have all bios and drivers installed and seemingly tried everything online with no success

Specs:
MSI MAG A650BN 650 W PSU
Gigabyte A520I AC
Timetec Pinnacle Konduit 32 GB kit
Ryzen 5 5600
Powercolor RX 7600
Crucial P3 Plus 1TB

For a game like Fornite according to the AMD software my CPU usage is around 30 persent with 60 degrees and my GPU is around 14 percent at 47 degrees. After reinstalling the AMD software it made it worse tho any advice
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Chipset drivers installed?

RAM in slots a2-b2?

XMP enabled?
 
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icecreamagent said:
Thanks! Do you know why it is not being used that much? and how long should it take for compiling?
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Compiling should only take a few hours, wholly dependent on your gpu and the game.

As for the low utilization, my guess is probably your settings, both games being an e sports title is optimized and made to be run on a potato, although Fortnite can be demanding if you have lumens. Another issue that might contribute to the stutters is the fact these 2 games are built on unreal engine, with fortnite being on UE5 making it more unstable . The reason why I say you need to take time with compiling shaders is because I have similar specs as you and incidentally I encountered significant stuttering during my first few hours on these games as well, it went away as time passed.

If the stutters still persist tomorrow maybe there's an issue with on of your components, if so do a memtest or benchmark.
 
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icecreamagent said:
Thanks! Do you know why it is not being used that much? and how long should it take for compiling?
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If you are speaking of shaders, these are small programs which can run a lot of copies on different data at the same time in the GPU. Assuming this GPU has its own VRAM (most do; however, some laptops share system memory), then there is some time spent uploading textures and shader programs to the GPU. The upload time is not necessarily all that long, but then computations are made on the various pieces of geometry as they are encountered. An example might be that in a given game there are a lot of scenes, but each scene is constructed of a limited number of pieces. If you've encountered all of those pieces in previous scenes, then a new scene (which you've never encountered before) won't require any kind of update from those pieces. There are also shader computations, but basically, if you encounter each of the components, and if the shader programs have been used once, then you'll mostly not get any more performance "burps" from that.

An exception is if you do not have enough VRAM. Not enough VRAM implies a new scene might need to throw away something not used in that scene in order to render that scene.

System RAM is what page files are about. Virtual memory uses the memory management unit (MMU) to map certain memory addresses to each individual program such that the memory appears to in some easier block to work with than if fragments from all over the memory were being used (the program does not have to manage that since the MMU is turning fragments into what looks like contiguous memory). Your disk (SSD, old style hard drive, so on) can be part of this, and the MMU can fake having more physical RAM by mapping drive space as ordinary memory. The problems include that this is exceptionally slow compared to RAM, and in modern days when you have solid state RAM, this can actually reduce the life of the solid state drive (wear leveling fights this failure, but constant thrashing of solid state memory still has consequences). You are far better off to completely turn of swap (paging) for both performance reasons and the life of the drive you swap to (assuming it is solid state). Even if you have a lot of RAM, if swap is enabled, then less used programs will still attempt to swap out.
 
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icecreamagent said:
Hi, I recently built a new PC (first time) and whenever I try to play a game like Fort or Val I keep getting these stutters. I believe I do not have any overheating issues and I have all bios and drivers installed and seemingly tried everything online with no success.

Specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte A520I AC
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600
GPU: Powercolor RX 7600
RAM: Timetec Pinnacle Konduit 32GB Kit
PSU: MSI MAG A650BN 650w
SSD: Crucial P3 Plus 1TB

In a game like Fornite, according to the AMD software my CPU usage is around 30% with 60C temp and my GPU is around 14% with 47C temp. After reinstalling the AMD software it made it worse thoough.

Any advice?
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If you are looking at CPU/GPU usage while the game is minimize, then you are not reading the right numbers.

Unless you are using some sort of AMD OSD (OnScreenDisplay) feature on which case you can see the usage information over the gaming session, then those should be the right numbers. Like what MSI Afterburner OSD does.

BTW you never mention at what resolution and details settings are you playing those games.

To fix the "it made it worse" witht he AMD Software reinstaling, you can use DDU, but first watch and/or read a guide on how to do it right.

As for stutters you should start by removing factors from the equation. For starters: Have you tried any non-online game? That way you remove the ISP uncertainty in all this.

Another thing you can try, is to enable/disable Resizable BAR (Base Address Register) on the BIOS, and see if this makes a difference.

Also always keep at least 10% of your SSD as free space, else strange behaviors can happend.

And if its not a must, try removing that USB drive out of the equation too.
 
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icecreamagent said:
Hi, I recently built a new PC (first time) and whenever I try to play a game like Fort or Val I keep getting these stutters. I believe I do not have any overheating issues and I have all bios and drivers installed and seemingly tried everything online with no success.

Specs:
Motherboard: Gigabyte A520I AC
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600
GPU: Powercolor RX 7600
RAM: Timetec Pinnacle Konduit 32GB Kit
PSU: MSI MAG A650BN 650w
SSD: Crucial P3 Plus 1TB

In a game like Fornite, according to the AMD software my CPU usage is around 30% with 60C temp and my GPU is around 14% with 47C temp. After reinstalling the AMD software it made it worse thoough.

Any advice?
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if your running the ram at 3600 and getting lag turn it down to 3200.

what resolution are you using and cpu cooler.

also turn of gpu acceleration under graphics in display in windows. it can bug out fornite and some games.
 
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RodroX said:
If you are looking at CPU/GPU usage while the game is minimize, then you are not reading the right numbers.

Unless you are using some sort of AMD OSD (OnScreenDisplay) feature on which case you can see the usage information over the gaming session, then those should be the right numbers. Like what MSI Afterburner OSD does.

BTW you never mention at what resolution and details settings are you playing those games.

To fix the "it made it worse" witht he AMD Software reinstaling, you can use DDU, but first watch and/or read a guide on how to do it right.

As for stutters you should start by removing factors from the equation. For starters: Have you tried any non-online game? That way you remove the ISP uncertainty in all this.

Another thing you can try, is to enable/disable Resizable BAR (Base Address Register) on the BIOS, and see if this makes a difference.

Also always keep at least 10% of your SSD as free space, else strange behaviors can happend.

And if its not a must, try removing that USB drive out of the equation too.
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Yes I removed the usb I forgot I had it since I used it to install windows.

I am mostly using low settings on every game I play preformance mode on fort (right now I am using windowed fullscreen but I also tried fullscreen with the same results)with low everything and same for valorant except I have bloom and experimental sharpening on.

Also, now using the AMD tuning overlay I can see that when im in a game like fort ~30-40% GPU (when droping) and ~30% when landed aswell ~ 40% CPU (my CPU temp is 67-69 degrees)

The only offline game I tried so far is batman arkham knight and I play on the high settings and I still get some stutters for it, but I dont think that internet is an issue, should I try other offline games?
 
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If you are speaking of shaders, these are small programs which can run a lot of copies on different data at the same time in the GPU. Assuming this GPU has its own VRAM (most do; however, some laptops share system memory), then there is some time spent uploading textures and shader programs to the GPU. The upload time is not necessarily all that long, but then computations are made on the various pieces of geometry as they are encountered. An example might be that in a given game there are a lot of scenes, but each scene is constructed of a limited number of pieces. If you've encountered all of those pieces in previous scenes, then a new scene (which you've never encountered before) won't require any kind of update from those pieces. There are also shader computations, but basically, if you encounter each of the components, and if the shader programs have been used once, then you'll mostly not get any more performance "burps" from that.

An exception is if you do not have enough VRAM. Not enough VRAM implies a new scene might need to throw away something not used in that scene in order to render that scene.

System RAM is what page files are about. Virtual memory uses the memory management unit (MMU) to map certain memory addresses to each individual program such that the memory appears to in some easier block to work with than if fragments from all over the memory were being used (the program does not have to manage that since the MMU is turning fragments into what looks like contiguous memory). Your disk (SSD, old style hard drive, so on) can be part of this, and the MMU can fake having more physical RAM by mapping drive space as ordinary memory. The problems include that this is exceptionally slow compared to RAM, and in modern days when you have solid state RAM, this can actually reduce the life of the solid state drive (wear leveling fights this failure, but constant thrashing of solid state memory still has consequences). You are far better off to completely turn of swap (paging) for both performance reasons and the life of the drive you swap to (assuming it is solid state). Even if you have a lot of RAM, if swap is enabled, then less used programs will still attempt to swap out.
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Thanks for your message! I learnt a lot, but are you certain that turning pagefiles off is okay? Wont it cause instabilities and such
 
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beyondlogic said:
if your running the ram at 3600 and getting lag turn it down to 3200.

what resolution are you using and cpu cooler.

also turn of gpu acceleration under graphics in display in windows. it can bug out fornite and some games.
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Resolution: 1920 x 1080 16:9
Cpu cooler: Thermalright AXP90 X47 Low Profile CPU Cooler
Thanks for your other advice will try it
 
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icecreamagent said:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 16:9
Cpu cooler: Thermalright AXP90 X47 Low Profile CPU Cooler
Thanks for your other advice will try it
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also check your bios is running the newest you may have to do it multiple times so read all of the bios newer then yours to make sure you have all the correct drivers installed before specificly the newest amd driver chipsets. which can be found on the gigabyte website
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/A520I-AC-rev-1x/support#support-dl-driver-chipset

bios
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/A520I-AC-rev-1x/support#support-dl-bios


other thoughts.

also if you can send back the board and get a

Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX Mini ITX ( its one of the boards that can be flashed without a cpu.​

AS A520 USES PCI GEN 3 X 16

AMD B550 ITX USES GEN 4 X16 which wont bottleneck the gpu since its running on a x8 lane on a slower 3.0 gen bus when it needs 4x8 bus.
 
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