So far I've tested GTAV, Payday 2, Rust, and CSGO, all of these games experience some sort of fps hiccup at random intervals. During the hiccup, which only lasts for like a 1/10th of a second by my rough guess, all indications of FPS remain normal. GTAV and Payday 2 are running off of my new HDD, while Rust and CSGO are on a SSD. Of the 4, CSGO seems to have the least problems, being almost completely fine. GTAV and Payday 2 are hit particularly hard, at one point GTA was totally crippled by stutters as I sailed out into the ocean, only recovering once I started heading back to shore.
I do not think that this is a performance issue as my i5 @ 3.8GHz and GTX 970 should be able to handle all of these games just fine at >60fps.
I also do not think that it is a hard drive issue, as Rust felt like it had the same amount of stutter when installed on either drive.
Some symptoms that I've collected are that one of my cores will become pegged at what looks like 98% usage while the game is active, and the others will hover around 40-60%. I also noticed that the Queue Length for the HDD spikes to 0.05 at times, although I have not been able to correlate queue length spikes to in-game stutters.
Checking my temps, my CPU is sitting at <40C and my GPU goes between 65 and 70, these temps seem pretty fine to me.
I suppose my GPU might be choking, but I've tried reducing the graphics settings to no avail.
Specs:
ASRock Z97M Pro 4 motherboard
i5 4690K @ 3.8GHz
GTX 970 not overclocked
Fully updated Windows 10
ASUS VG248 monitor at 120Hz
RAM usage during play is about 4GB out of 16, with minimal Hard Faults/sec
Some of these games seem to have a reputation for stuttering, but I would have thought that my newer desktop would fair better than my slightly older desktop which had no problems with stuttering in these games.
I will continue trying game-specific fixes, but I'm becoming suspicious of my current hardware, is there anything I should do to see if my computer is ok?
My first guess is the motherboard (based on the hdd queue time) I'm assuming you've updated all your drivers at this point
Either that or the power supply.. but this sounds hardware based more than software
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