What is causing Microstutter and Hitching on open world games!

Deankavanagh1999

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Jan 9, 2016
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Hello everyone, as the title says, I experience game-breaking stutter whenever I play open world games such as: Far cry 4, Witcher 3 and Assassins creed. What makes this stutter all the more frustrating and noticeable is that I can play these games at 60+ fps, considering that I have a GTX 980 Ti. Therefore, the stuttering is more noticeable as the gameplay is silky smooth, prior to when the stuttering occurs. I am trying to narrow down the list of culprits ( my components) and believe that the problem could be the fact that I have all my games installed on my hard drive. Therefore, I am considering buying an SSD as I have heard on other forums, highlighting this stutter issue, that just installing the games on an SSD completely eliminate the issues. I will post my system specs below. Any help would be much appreciated.

My specs:

Cpu- i5 4460
Gpu- gtx 980 ti
Ram- 8gb ram
HDD- 1tb 7200 rpm western digital drive
OS- Windows 10 64 bit
PSU- 850w