Stuttering, on a very powerful PC

[Laurineu-dalaran]

I’m going to say something stupid…

Try lowering your resolution from 4k to 1440p, see if that makes a difference.

Just saying because I randomly came across this thread for exactly the same reason, micro stuttering, and lowering the resolution to 1440p fixed it.

Of course, I kinda of refuse to play the game at 1440p when I have a 32" 4k monitor.

CPU: 9800X3D
GPU: 4090

[Sweatty-frostmourne]

its already on 1440p though

[Asterchades-uther]

Try systematically disabling external monitoring or adaptive lighting software if you’ve got any in use. More than one of these can result in stutters, ranging from almost imperceptible micro-stutters up to things far more intrusive.

It’s also worth mentioning that if you have the new NVidia App you should disable the Game Filters if you have the overlay enabled. This is known to hurt performance and could induce stutters if it’s enabled before acceleration is started - even if you aren’t actually using a filter. The latest hotfix drivers disable it by default. If you absolutely need to have a filter enabled, you need to turn them back on after launching the game to keep performance.

Software to check from my own experience (hardly exhaustive):

Having GPU power percentage monitoring enabled on NVidia cards will cause micro-stutters. Doesn’t matter if you’re actively viewing the stat, so long as your software is polling for it. MSI Afterburner, for example, defaults to polling this. Power in wattage doesn’t seem to cause the same effect and can be left alone. If you can’t specifically disable this setting in your software, close it entirely.

I also found more extreme but reliable stutters from the software that handles the little OLED screen on my graphics card (an AORUS Master) - particularly in VR titles. A noticeable pause every few seconds. This is controlled by the Gigabyte AORUS LCD service. Stopping the service will prevent live updates of the screen (not animations), but also stops the stuttering.