Unfixable? Persistant stuttering in ALL games, need help

[upbasher]

I have been dealing with a persistant micro stuttering issue in games for a long time. This is a gonna be a read because I have tried a LOT of different things, and nothing I do fixes it. I would very much appreciate any and all help/suggestions because this is essentially ruining pc gaming for me....My problem is I get random micro stutters(spikes in frametimes - as recorded with afterburner) in all games. Even CSGO. There is no rhyme or reason to them, I cannot consistenly produce them, and they happen continuously. They are very small, just enough of a spike that you can notice it. Again, it happens in all games, the same way, so its not the game itself. And I get very high framerates, thats also not the problem.
Games I play that it happens in:
PUBG, Witcher 3, csgo, ring of elysium, etc.

My specs:
Motherboard: Z390-E
CPU: i7 9700k
Card: Asus strix 1080ti OC running in OC mode
RAM: Ripjaws 16gb ddr4 running at 3200mhz, dual channel
PSU: EVGA 750w
Windows 10 home 64bit
My OS and all my games/programs are installed on a samsung 850 evo 500gb ssd.
Monitor, AOC AG271QG gsync 1440p 27" at 165hz. Displayport cable of course.
Mouse: G502 proteus spectrum
Keyboard: G810 spectrum
Soundcard: soundblaster z
Headphones: Sennheiser hd 598 cs
My bios is set at xmp profile 1 for the ram to run at 3200mhz

Things I have tried that I can confirm do NOT fix the problem:

Resetting the bios to optimized defaults and running with no overclock and stock settings on the cpu and ram,
Running the Graphics card with no overclock and stock settings,
ALL settings in nvidia control panel - None of them fix it, Ive tried EVERY one in every way,
Running the game(s) in windowed, fullscreen, etc etc
Different gpu drivers, have tried 388.71 which was said to be the best one for pubg, and the latest one, have already reinstalled them multiple times with DDU, makes zero difference,
Settting cpu power plan to 100%,
Disabling cpu c states in bios,
Disabling/enabling the pagefile,
ran memtest - no errors,
Completely uninstalled chrome with revo
Removed soundcard and all drivers with revo
Tried different polling rate and dpi settings for my mouse
Monitoring temperatures, cpu and cpu both run very cool, cpu rarely goes above 50 -55c,
Changed all sorts of settings in windows defender to make it run as little as possible, put my entire c drive as an exception not to scan, even completely disabled the whole program in the registry.
Ands lots of other stuff Im forgetting.
Again, ANY suggestions besides the stuff Ive already tried would be greatly appreciated, I cant even enjoy my games with a several thousand dollar setup, getting very frustrating. I have read about people saying it could be a power supply issue, but I really doubt this. Next thing I am going to try is removing my soundcard/ soundblaster driver entirely and only using the onboard realtek sound

 

[RememberThe5th]

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I am using gsync, this is not the problem but thank you for the suggestion.
Regardless it happens even when getting well above 165hz anyway

I have vsync on in ncp

Upbasher,

You should NOT have Gsync and Vsync enabled at the same time. The proper way to utilize Gsync AND keep frametime down to a minimum is to run Gsync AND manually cap your FPS 2-3 below the maximum fps that Gsync works at. (I believe it's 144 so you should manually cap the in-game fps around 141-143). Even Jayz Two Cents refers to this at the 11:40 mark of this video from just last week.

https://youtu.be/QjIfwfF2Hc8?t=700

If you want the absolute best case senario for frametime, disable both Gsync AND vsync and manually cap your fps to 165 so it never goes above the monitors refreshrate.

Just tried this and can confirm it does not fix the problem. Tried it with and without gsync, capped at 140fps, and uncapped. Still get erratic small frametime spikes at random times

It's time to look elsewhere because this fix SHOULD have worked. It's not one of those "it work's for some and not others" type of fix.

You're going to have to either:

Use a second monitor to keep certain system monitoring apps open while gaming so you can see what's causing the issue or play some games in a small window mode to see the monitoring apps open at the same time.

Good luck

It's time to look elsewhere because this fix SHOULD have worked.

Thats not a good way to tell it to person to look elswhere. Beaucse it should've worked.

My friend from Germany has also same issue, he swapped everything, he tried everything what I've suggested him.

He installed new GPU, SSD, only he did not swap the CPU, yes there is a chance of that.
I would suggest him bare minimum as I've suggested.
Then if nothing works, I would go for RMA, piece by piece.

If it still does, then its something in hardware, like SSD and extra hardware that he is using causing something.

Long time ago I had only stuttering because of the Realteks sound drivers being over engineered (Buggy AF).

 

[upbasher]

I just uninstalled everything realtek using revo, also removed all the sonic studio stuff, did not make a difference

 

[RememberThe5th]

Tried unplugging and leaving as i've asked up?

What if you do bare minimum?
Keep ONLY Monitor, keyboard and mouse and disconnect everything else, by everything i mean it and re try.

 

[upbasher]

Tried unplugging and leaving as i've asked up?

What if you do bare minimum?
Keep ONLY Monitor, keyboard and mouse and disconnect everything else, by everything i mean it and re try.

Only other thing I have connected is my headphones but I will try right now

 

[upbasher]

Tried with only my keyboard/mouse/power cord/ and ethernet connected, no different

 

[RememberThe5th]

Try disabling enabling trim.
https://windowshelper.co/how-to-enable-or-disable-ssd-trim-in-windows-10-8-or-7/

 

[upbasher]

just tried it. Unfortunately it did not work. Is there any chance this could be a network related problem? I do not have the best internet but my ping is stable and not bad...

 

[mgallo848]

Thats not a good way to tell it to person to look elswhere. Beaucse it should've worked.

Actually, my response is correct. I think you've misunderstood what I'm telling him. I'm not saying to look elsewhere on the insternet, I was saying the Gsync/ Vsync is not his issue.

 

[upbasher]

Thats not a good way to tell it to person to look elswhere. Beaucse it should've worked.

Actually, my response is correct. I think you've misunderstood what I'm telling him. I'm not saying to look elsewhere on the insternet, I was saying the Gsync/ Vsync is not his issue.

Indeed it is not. I have tried every combination of gsync/vsync imagineable

 

[mgallo848]

Thats not a good way to tell it to person to look elswhere. Beaucse it should've worked.

Actually, my response is correct. I think you've misunderstood what I'm telling him. I'm not saying to look elsewhere on the insternet, I was saying the Gsync/ Vsync is not his issue.

Indeed it is not. I have tried every combination of gsync/vsync imagineable

Sorry but you're still missing my point. If you properly set up Gsync and you're still having issues then it is NOT Gysnc. There is something else on your system causing the issue. You need to look alsewhere on your system that is causing this.

 

[mgallo848]

Try my advice about running games in windowed mode while having system monitoring software running so you can see what is causing this issue.

 

[upbasher]

Try my advice about running games in windowed mode while having system monitoring software running so you can see what is causing this issue.

I will try this, let you know how it goes

 

[upbasher]

Been testing non stop, there is no programs using the cpu in the background, ever. (other than windows processes and a couple other things that I have already tried uninstalling and it didnt fix it). HOWEVER, I did notice, in ring of elysium and pubg, the two games where it seems to be the worst, that my gpu usage seems very low, it almost never goes above 70%. Also I noticed using afterburner that my gpu was hitting the power limit continuously(not voltage, I know thats different), raised it up to 120 so it wouldnt but it did not make a difference.

 

[upbasher]

I switched back to my old z170-p motherboard and 7700k cpu. Completely reinstalled windows again. Gonna download my games and test. Will keep updated

 

[upbasher]

Completely different motherboard and cpu do NOT fix it. Games behave exactly the same. Next thing Im going to try is a different power supply. I have doubts this will fix it but have no other things to try

 

[upbasher]

I got a new 850w power supply and a new 1tb ssd on the way. I have a hunch either my power supply is very slowly failing, or my second 1tb regular hdd is messing something up

 

[cheungmy0717]

I got a new 850w power supply and a new 1tb ssd on the way. I have a hunch either my power supply is very slowly failing, or my second 1tb regular hdd is messing something up

I have the exact same problem as you!! I've been struggling for a month and at first I thought it was a cpu bottleneck since I have a i7 6700k 4.7Ghz paired with an rtx 2080 but then after I upgraded to a i7 9700k 4.9 Ghz the stutters is still there! Have you found a fix? If so please share it thx