Graphical stutter/skip....I don't know what to do.

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Xhelios

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Hello,

I have been having some graphical issues and I'm hoping you guys could help me. Let me explain.

I have been playing Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Rebrorn. I keep getting this really annoying skip when I run on the open world and it is more predominant when I ride my mount (faster speed). I'm not sure if its is the microstutter everyone talks about (I'm new to PC gaming) so allow me to describe it.

When I run on open field there is this small freeze (less than a second skip, not a flicker) that happens then everything is normal for 1-3 seconds and then is happens again. No fps drops when it occurs.
I can see this small skip easier when I look towards the bottom of the screen and to the sides when staring at the enviroment. It is like it stops than it continues. It doesn't matter in what game settings it is in, lowest or hieghest, it stil happens. it does happen to other games like SWOTR, Tera and GW2 but not nearly as severe or constant.

This is what I have done so far: Downloaded newest driver, clean-wipe and re-installation of windows 8,drivers and game, made sure GPU, RAM, HDD and PSU are well pluged in, all type of CCC graphical configurations.

Here is my System: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1oBQw
-i54670K no OC at 3.4
-Xfx HD 7870 Ghz edition with single fan. game stays at 68-72* with in game frame limit at 60fps
-Corsair 8 gigs of DDR3 1600 ram - timing of 11-11-11-30. I dont know if this is a problem but this ram is rate 1.65v with a Cas L. of 9 but my system lowers to 1.5v with a Cas L. of 11 and speed of 1600.
-Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
-No SSD.
-Corsair 600W PSU +bronze non modular.
-Windows 8 OEM.
-20.1" 60hz Acer monitor,at 1920X1080 resolution.

It is kind of frustrating b/c the people I play online with have lower specs and have no such issues.
I would I appricite any advice or suggestions

Kind Regards,

Ps:Sorry for any grammatical erros, english is my 2nd language :bounce:
 
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You need to see if this happens in an offline game.

It's not microstutter. Microstutter is when frame times vary in length. At 60FPS each frame should be 1/60th but with microstutter you can have for example every 10th frame being 5/60th of a second which repeats causing a very QUICK stuttering effect not a longer freeze.

If offline games work fine you can see if it's network gaming in general or THAT specific game that has issues.
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You need to see if this happens in an offline game.

It's not microstutter. Microstutter is when frame times vary in length. At 60FPS each frame should be 1/60th but with microstutter you can have for example every 10th frame being 5/60th of a second which repeats causing a very QUICK stuttering effect not a longer freeze.

If offline games work fine you can see if it's network gaming in general or THAT specific game that has issues.
 
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Thank you for your response!

Yea I didn't even think of that since I really only play online games. I will buy a single player game like Dead island or Bioshock to see if it still happens.

So you think it could be my network? as in my provider and speed? or the physical cable plug-ins into my motherboard?

Thank you once again!
 
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There's some pretty good deals at Steam. Check out the current Specials:

1) $10 for Bioshock 1 and 2
2) $2.49 for Half Life 2
3) $10 for every Half Life game made
etc
 
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Thanks! Those are great deals. I actually got Bioshock Infinite for $13.00.

I see no skip/sttuter (playing on ultra) like the one I described earlier while playing FFXIV.
I'm not sure what that means though. I play with people with lower specs and they do not have this issue.
For a bit I thought it could have been my GPU since FFXIV recommends a HD 7950. I was about to purchase a HD7970 b/c I was so frustrated with this issue.

At this point I'm at a lost of what the solution could be for this. I did fire up Swtor and GW2 again to check and this type of skip is not really there either.

I do appriciate your time responding to my post Photonboy.

Kind regards.

*On a side note: HOLY HELL Bioshock is incredible. I can't believe I payed $13.00 bucks for such awesomeness. Would have easily payed $50 for it. :ouch:

 
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*So I think your issue is related to the network, but it's hard for me to help you further. My best guess would be it's on the game server side of things that is the problem.

You could try a different Free To Play MMO and see how that performs. If that works fine then the issue has nothing to do with your PC or home network setup.

I suggest World of Warcraft which you can play for free with a level cap but it should have a reliable server and I know it was smooth for me.

I just started Bioshock Infinite today as well, although it does have a slight stutter at times compared to my other games. Oddly it seemed to have the same stutter at 2560x1440 which is far more demanding so I need to investigate.

I'm going to drop the quality to the lowest possible to see if it runs far smoother then raise it up to isolate which feature is causing the issue.

I also dropped the sensitivity down a notch for the XBOX controller as turning seemed to accelerate to fast for my liking.

I'm actually finishing Fallout 3 GOTY now that I fixed the stutter and crashing via the ifpsclamp and dual-core cap edit. The ifpsclamp=60 fix also works for Fallout NV however you get major stutter if it drops below 60FPS so you have to watch that and tweak as necessary (it's the ONLY fix that really works).
 
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