• Friend's PC suffers stuttering - even on (YouTube) video playback
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So over the past few months a friend of mine suffers very noticeable stuttering. It happens when playing YouTube videos, ingame and in programs as source film maker, and most of his games too, except for some. He doesn't remember though when exactly the problem started. So far he has updated his graphics drivers, and recently I helped him defragmenting his hard drive which is pretty filled right now. Could it possibly be temperature problems? I know him and his dad are too scared to actually open the case and use tools to clean the hardware. [t]http://puu.sh/cDpli/ff531a733a.PNG[/T] these are his specs. Could it just be the beginning stages of aging hardware? I know the GTX660 isn't the youngest card anymore these days. Thanks for your time for reading.
Before posting this thread he took a look with Open Hardware Monitor, with his CPU and GPU being 35c average on the desktop. We'll take a look at the temperatures under load after I'm back from school.
Updating graphics drivers on older video cards actually causes more problems than fixes. Current graphics drivers are only good on video cards if they're also current. Whenever a new generation of graphics cards come out, the drivers will start to favor them more and favor the older cards less. This disparity only gets worse the older the graphics card you have. New drivers running on old graphics cards can cause all sorts of bizarre bugs and performance problems. I recommend finding a driver version released during the 660s mainstream life, plus maybe a year. So sometime between the middle of 2012-2013.
^this Even the latest drivers are giving my 680 some issues
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;46413915]Updating graphics drivers on older video cards actually causes more problems than fixes. Current graphics drivers are only good on video cards if they're also current. Whenever a new generation of graphics cards come out, the drivers will start to favor them more and favor the older cards less. This disparity only gets worse the older the graphics card you have. New drivers running on old graphics cards can cause all sorts of bizarre bugs and performance problems. I recommend finding a driver version released during the 660s mainstream life, plus maybe a year. So sometime between the middle of 2012-2013.[/QUOTE] Which drivers should he use though? I'm not sure myself because I'm mostly an AMD nut, as I can't afford nvidia right now. [editline]5th November 2014[/editline] Okay so we just checked out his CPU usage, while he was playing New Vegas, and where his performance issues are the worst. The GPU had 68% load maximum, and CPU didn't even budge and stayed at 20% load. One problem is that I found a suitable driver: 305.88 but I couldn't find the driver for the GTX660, only the GTX660 titan. Any place where I can find older drivers?
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