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.

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Thanks I adjusted that. Didnt help with the stutter though. :frowning:

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Do you have Microsoft Copilot taking screenshots constantly?

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Not an expert or anything but you might try some of the following.

For Alienware M-series with Nvidia graphics, make sure not to update your graphics card using GeForce Experience. Not my opinion, its on the Nvidia driver download page. if you have used this to update your driver, download the updated version from Dell and do a custom, clean install.

You should be using SupportAssist to update your drivers and firmware, including the latest graphics driver, release date, 10 December, 2024, and Alienware Command Center to adjust your computer’s performance profile while running the game. Alienware Command Center > settings > global options > set to per game.

Make sure Alienware Command Center is the latest version, currently 6.5, and SupportAssist is up-to-date, latest version release in December.

You may also want to cap your frames per second in WOW to 100 for foreground and 30 for background but you should be able to set that card using the graphics slider in WOW to 9 or 10.

Using your BIOS, you can also select discrete graphics only and eliminate use of the onboard Intel graphics card. This will reduce your CPU and GPU temperature providing a more consistent experience. You might also want to run a full system diag making sure to run all tests while you’re in there.

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