I'm a little frustrated with pc gaming below 60fps

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ducknukem86

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Hello there,

I recently purchased an EVGA 780 Classified. I built my pc not long ago, and have finally started gaming on it. I thought according to reviews of GPUs and such that as a long as i stayed above 30 fps everything would be nice. I'm finding myself a bit frustrated with pc gaming because whenever the framerate in a game drops below 60 fps to say 50 fps, i noticed stutter. I don't know if this is because i'm simply too sensitive to these fluctuations. Is this how pc gaming really is? i remember gaming on consoles and as long as the game had 30 fps everything was ok. I'm asking because not even a 500 dollar GPU can keep 60 fps at 1080p in some very demanding games like Crysis 3 or Farcry 3.

Thank you for your answers
 
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akensai

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I haven't noticed any stuttering with mine but I also get 60+ fps in Farcry 3 at all times and 40-50 in Crysis3.

If you look at the GeForce forums you will see a lot of people having issues with the 780 series of cards (including the 780Ti). Maybe you lost the silicon lottery and got a poor chip?

Anyways, give us your system specs, if you are seeing actual stuttering in gameplay it's likely something is bottleknecking it. To test that you can run MSI Afterburner and watch the GPU Usage, if its above 85% at all times during gameplay there is no bottlekneck, but if you notice it hovering around 60%, it's likely something is holding it back. Be sure to test in a high end game such as FC3, Crysis 3, BF4, etc.
 
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ducknukem86

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Sorry, here are my specs:

I5 4670k OC to 4.2ghz
EVGA 780 Classified
8mb DDR3 Ripjaws G.SKill ram
1tb 7,200 rpm HDD
750w Rosewill HIVE 80bronze
MSI G45 z87 Gaming Motherboard

I game on a 60hz 1080p screen with 5ms (pretty standard i guess)
 
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Andy11466

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That's weird how you get lower than 30fps with that build.
You should try moving onto a SSD though. I was never really a SSD fan and thought HDD's were fine but after trying it out, it made a big difference
 
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SSD will not effect FPS. Data is loaded into RAM, what it will help is load times.

In any case, try disabling power saving options via your bios. A lot of the time people having issues like this are having their CPU throttled by power saving settings.
 
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To humble a 780 @ 1080 you will be running with all the graphics glory Crysis 3 can provide, something no console can do. A high end GPU is not the only thing your system needs to provide high frame rates in games. You must have a CPU that can keep up with it and enough RAM as well. You don't give much in the way of system specs so it's hard to judge where your system might be down on performance.

Also don't forget it's a computer and potentially doing other background tasks unlike a console that's just 'playing the game'. Make sure you're not running anything that will be interfering with performance when gaming. A full notification area in the task bar on peoples computers usually tells me they install stuff and just let it all load up at boot time, taking up resources and running in the background. Hope yours isn't like that.
 
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Well i am for the most part getting good Frames per second, it's only that whenever a game goes to 55 or 50 fps i instantly notice it. Now i wonder how someone with a less powerful GPU can cope with that
 
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Background tasks can have a big effect and cause frame drop when they take CPU resources. It would happen in the way you describe so I would make sure no other software is causing it. Run CCleaner and disable any useless items from running on your computer at startup. If your anti-virus has a 'gaming mode' option turn it on - stops update checks and scheduled scans when gaming.

I had bad performance from BF4 (no beta) on my i7/Nvidia670 which would stutter infrequently which turned out to be the processor shutting down cores (parking) which were not being used and then when BF4 made a CPU call that required another core to fire back up the game would stutter and give a loss in frame rate. It was very frustrating and made the game a jerky mess and just about unplayable, certainly online. Once I turned off CPU parking it was all butter smooth as it should be.
 
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Don't be ignorant. Not all Data is loaded into ram. It may be for some certain games like Battlefield 4, when it loads the map in the beginning, but games like Grand Theft Auto 4, Arma 3, Skyrim, Far Cry 3, and big roam games load as you play. and an SSD will help in fps. They don't get loaded onto ram.
 
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