[SOLVED] Why does my games stutter on 60+ fps

[ivexyyy]

Im playing apex legends and i have around 60-100 fps and the game stutters alot. Only when the fps is between 90-100 game feels kinda smooth. My pc specs are :

GPU - Amd NItro Rx 580 8gb

CPU - AMD fx 9590 4ghz

MOBO - Gigabyte fx -990ud3

RAM - 16gb ddr3

 

[Ralston18]

PSU: make, model, wattage, age, condition? History of heavy use for gaming?

Disk drive(s): make, model, capacity, how full?

 

[ivexyyy]

PSU: make, model, wattage, age, condition? History of heavy use for gaming?

Disk drive(s): make, model, capacity, how full?

Not quite sure about model of psu - 700 WATT , maybe 1.5 year old max. But i didnt play for the last year so its kinda new
No heavy uses or anything , i played warzone before but same thing was going on.
SSD samsung 250 gb ,40gb free space
Plus i have 1TB HDD.
For all i know games that has frames above 60 fps should work ok at least .
I forgot to mention that my cpu or gpu usage doesnt come near 100%. no logic in all of that

 

[Ralston18]

SSD Samsung being the boot drive - correct? Down to 16% free space. I keep my drives in the 30-20% free space range. That is just me and there are other views about the range. Just let the free space as is for the time being.

Hopefully PSU is okay. However, there are many factors involved so it is a bit to early on in the trouble shooting process to rule out the PSU.

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Power down, unplug, open the case. (If you are not comfortable doing so on your own then find a knowledgeable family member or friend to help.)

Clean out dust and debris,

Verify by sight and feel that all connectors, cards, RAM, and jumpers are fully and firmly in place.

Copy down PSU make, model, efficiency (bronze, silver, gold, etc...) Post accordingly.

Inspect for signs of damage: bare conductor showing, melted insulation, kinked or pinched wires, browning or blackening, swollen components.

Then work and game as normal.

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If the stutters continue then open either Resource Monitor or Task Manager to view system performance. Use both tools but only one tool at a time.

View performance: 1) after boot up while the system is just idling, then 2) view while doing light work or browsing, and lastly 3) while gaming. You will need to keep the tool window open to watch what is happening to system resources especially when you notice the stuttering.

It will take some trial and error to figure out how each tool works and what it shows. Take your time. Note that some column headers contain a small upward or downward pointing arrow. Clicking the arrow changes the sort order. Helpful if things are "jumping around" too fast to watch.

 

[geofelt]

Stuttering is usually a temporary lack of cpu resource.

Check to see that your motherboard vrm's are getting airflow.
You could be throttling.
Take the case covers off and direct a house fan at the innards and see if that helps.
Your FX processor is tops in the FX line, but puny by today's standards.

Be careful how you interpret task manager cpu utilizations.
Windows will spread the activity of a single thread over all available threads.
So, if you had a game that was single threaded and cpu bound, it would show up on a quad core processor as 25%
utilization across all 4 threads.
leading you to think your bottleneck was elsewhere.
It turns our that few games can USEFULLY use more than 4-6 threads.
How can you tell how well threaded your games or apps are?
One way is to disable one thread and see how you do.

You can do this in the windows msconfig boot advanced options option.
You will need to reboot for the change to take effect. Set the number of processors to less than you have.
This will tell you how sensitive your games are to the benefits of many threads.
If you see little difference, it tells you that you will not benefit from more cores.
Likely, a better clock rate will be more important.

For games, single thread performance is all important.

Time, I think, to start planning on a current cpu upgrade.
$250 or so can buy you a modern cpu mobo and 16gb of ddr4.