Constant stuttering and asset pop-in when gaming

enderwiggum

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Specs

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 94 Stepping 3
Processor Count: 4
RAM: 16315 Mb
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon (TM) R9 390 Series, -1 Mb
Hard Drives: C: 232 GB (164 GB Free);
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC., Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA
Antivirus: Windows Defender, Enabled and Updated

My Problem

This is my first dedicated gaming build. It has never performed properly. I do not achieve reasonable performance in nearly any game that I play. My games tend to stutter, especially when something is loading in. Sometimes my game will briefly freeze as assets pop in. Pop-in is a constant annoyance and my games stutter whenever it occurs. I have played games where my character spawns in a black void and the world slowly loads around him, piece by piece. Some games are nearly unplayable because of this, namely: Dark Souls 3, Starbound, Deus Ex HR, Subnautica. Sometimes even title screens load in piece by piece.

I get a flickering white screen when I open Dark souls 3 which lingers for about 10 seconds. When I exit DS3 my display crashes and I have to hard reset. Other games have frozen as well. Often the sounds keep playing while the screen is frozen until I hard reset. Sometimes after this happens I've rebooted and received this message:

"Default Radeon Wattman settings have been restored due to an unexpected system error"

Lastly, when I open games my screen often flickers first. Sometimes I cannot see the games on my taskbar when I tab out and have to alt tab back in.

That's the story guys. I've been losing my mind over this. I'll be monitoring this thread neurotically for any help you can provide. Thank you so much in advance.
 

JettVic

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***I know this is not relevant but becareful when you say 16 Mb it means Megabits, not Byte, but yes. 16 GB or Gigabytes. Mb means Megabits which is internet terms rather than bytes. Just a note.***

Did you ever overclock your system? I can only help minimal but i didn't see any thing that says if you over clocked it.
Dark soul 3 is resource demanding so I'm thinking your cpu may have suffer from that, but i never experince this.


 

enderwiggum

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Thanks for replying. No, I've never overclocked. I haven't touched Crimson since reinstalling my drivers.
 

JettVic

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You never overclocked your cpu either?
 

enderwiggum

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Not once.
 
Use msi afterburner to monitor your cpu and gpu usage,best would be to play in windowed mode with cpu-z and gpu-z open to see what's up.
My guess is the GPU runs way below specs either because something wasn't put together correctly or because of some power plan (wattman message) forcing the card to run on power saving mode or something.
 

enderwiggum

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Thanks for responding!

In-game resource usage
http://imgur.com/a/iSBxe

Idle crimson wattman
http://imgur.com/a/iF9p2

 
Yeah 0-2% usage if that is your discrete card that games might be using your integrated gpu.
Try using gpu-z since it will tell you which gpu is being used and you can switch between them to see what each one is doing.
If it is your r9-390 than you will have to figure out how to make it run at full speed cause ~400Mhz is a joke.
 

enderwiggum

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Thanks for responding. I set up GPU Z and captured a couple of pictures as I was playing. I think we might be on to something.

http://imgur.com/a/DyBoG