Alienware Micro Stutter

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So i had an Area 51 for about 7 years and my hard drive finally gave out. Upgraded to an R16 with a Geforce RTX 4090 card, 64gb of ram and Intel 14th gen processor. I really only play Classic. This should be overkill for classic but I had thought I’d keep this machine for 5-7 years like my old one so I wanted something nice.

My old system never had issues with a stutter. This new one does right out the box. I have updated the BIOS. Updated the graphics card drivers. disabled windows defender to see if that helped. Nothing is working. Every few minutes I get a slight stutter maybe half a second but noticeable and sometimes a zzt sound with it.

Anyone else have these problems and cure them? Google has a million posts but no definitive answers. Figured I’d check with my fellow wow players.

Cheers.

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Check to see if you’re using your actual GPU and not integrated graphics in WoW options. Make sure triple buffering and V-sync are off.

Try capping your frame rates to your monitors refresh rate.

Make sure CPU chipset drivers are up to date.

Only things I can think of.

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Solid reasoning.

Are you on High Performance power mode in the nVidia settings (nVidia Control Panel) and the Windows Power settings?

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Just looked at the nvidia and its set to normal.

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You don’t want Normal, you want High Performance.