Hi all,
A couple months ago I upgraded to a new processor and motherboard, specifically an intel i7-3770 and an ASRock Z77 Extreme 4. I've had an HD Radeon 6950 gpu with 2gb of vram since before the upgrade. I've only just had to the time to sit down a try playing a few games, but I've started having problems where I didn't have any before I upgraded. I tried playing Skyrim first and encountered horrible stuttering despite a steady 55-60 fps on ultra settings (which I also played on before the upgrade with no issues). I thought it might be a bug, so I emailed Bethesda's tech support and tried playing a different game.
Next I tried Fallout 3 and, low and behold, encountered the same problem once again. I tried downloading stutter removing mods, I fiddled around with the Catalyst Control Center and forced it to use its own Vsync, AA, and AF over the game's, but nothing worked.
The last thing I tried was running both games in windowed mode, and for some reason that fixed it for both games. I'm not sure why but something I changed during the upgrade (or maybe something that happened as a result of reinstalling my operating system) caused a problem with playing games in fullscreen.
Does anyone have any advice? I've read that it might be bottlenecking between my cpu and gpu, but considering my old (and much worse) cpu worked fine I don't think that's it. I also read that my gpu could be dying, but it's less than two years old and I don't overclock it so that seems unlikely.
Thanks in advance.
A couple months ago I upgraded to a new processor and motherboard, specifically an intel i7-3770 and an ASRock Z77 Extreme 4. I've had an HD Radeon 6950 gpu with 2gb of vram since before the upgrade. I've only just had to the time to sit down a try playing a few games, but I've started having problems where I didn't have any before I upgraded. I tried playing Skyrim first and encountered horrible stuttering despite a steady 55-60 fps on ultra settings (which I also played on before the upgrade with no issues). I thought it might be a bug, so I emailed Bethesda's tech support and tried playing a different game.
Next I tried Fallout 3 and, low and behold, encountered the same problem once again. I tried downloading stutter removing mods, I fiddled around with the Catalyst Control Center and forced it to use its own Vsync, AA, and AF over the game's, but nothing worked.
The last thing I tried was running both games in windowed mode, and for some reason that fixed it for both games. I'm not sure why but something I changed during the upgrade (or maybe something that happened as a result of reinstalling my operating system) caused a problem with playing games in fullscreen.
Does anyone have any advice? I've read that it might be bottlenecking between my cpu and gpu, but considering my old (and much worse) cpu worked fine I don't think that's it. I also read that my gpu could be dying, but it's less than two years old and I don't overclock it so that seems unlikely.
Thanks in advance.
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