A couple of months ago, I replaced a faulty GTX 970 with a new GTX 1060. However, even though I'm getting 60fps in most games, it doesn't look smooth. This happens in basically everything, from the latest games to old games like Half-Life 1, and even internet browsers when scrolling.
My specs:
http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/3216587
GPU model is Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 Windforce OC 6GB GDDR5.
PSU is a Tacens Mars Gaming 700W.
I'm using a single Samsung LS22A300 monitor. Motherboard, RAM and CPU are relatively old (3 years, I think), while everything else is fairly recent, no more than 6 months old.
I have been looking into this issue for a month now, and just in case I've gone nuts and everything is actually working fine, I compared my display with my roomates' (GTX 970 and GTX 640, both with modest specs including 4690k CPUs), and they were indeed noticeably smoother than mine.
It's not the monitor. I've already tried theirs and it looks the same. I have also tried a myriad of "solutions", from tweaking the Nvidia Control Panel options to reinstalling the OS and reseating the GPU. It's not overheating either; GPU usually runs at 35-40 ºC in middle-ground games (World of Warcraft, Killing Floor 2, Serious Sam 3, etc.), and CPU at 40-50 ºC. Heck, my roomates' computers run games fine with zero tweaking.
Strangely, Killing Floor 2 seems to run smoother, but the choppiness I'm talking about is very noticeable in most games, especially older ones like Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2. In some games, FPS randomly jump between 59-61 with VSync on. Most games have very, very noticeable screen tearing with VSync off. This happens in 2D games and applications as well.
In WoW, the game runs "fine" at first in fullscreen mode (but with the aforementioned choppiness), but if I Alt-Tab it will start having unstable framerate (59-61 with odd frame time, 10-30 ms but it's at a stable 16.6 before Alt-Tabbing); it seems to run fine in borderless window mode though (59.9 FPS 16.6 ms according to RivaTuner, 60fps in the in-game counter), but again, with that choppy feeling.
I am running the latest drivers of everything. GPU, LAN, audio, BIOS, etc. No overclocking of any kind, energy mode is set in high performance, GPU is currently in optimal power but I've also tried adaptive and high performance, etc.
I had actually RMA'd a 1060 of the same model before because of this issue, but the problem persisted.
Any idea of how to fix this? I have tried a lot of possible solutions from Tom's Hardware, the Nvidia official forums, several game forums and basically every result in Google related to this. I don't have a lot of spare money either so I can't replace parts before knowing what may be the source of this problem.
I have seen people who have the same or similar issues with 1060 GPUs, especially in the Nvidia forums, but they never got a definitive answer. But I don't know if this is an issue with all 1060s, I was unlucky to get two defective cards in a row, or the problem lies somewhere else.
This is LatencyMon after running for a minute:
https://i.gyazo.com/4562c977c5fdeb3c86373fb12f72f82c.png
It doesn't look much different after several hours, except maybe higher page faults.
My specs:
http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/3216587
GPU model is Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 Windforce OC 6GB GDDR5.
PSU is a Tacens Mars Gaming 700W.
I'm using a single Samsung LS22A300 monitor. Motherboard, RAM and CPU are relatively old (3 years, I think), while everything else is fairly recent, no more than 6 months old.
I have been looking into this issue for a month now, and just in case I've gone nuts and everything is actually working fine, I compared my display with my roomates' (GTX 970 and GTX 640, both with modest specs including 4690k CPUs), and they were indeed noticeably smoother than mine.
It's not the monitor. I've already tried theirs and it looks the same. I have also tried a myriad of "solutions", from tweaking the Nvidia Control Panel options to reinstalling the OS and reseating the GPU. It's not overheating either; GPU usually runs at 35-40 ºC in middle-ground games (World of Warcraft, Killing Floor 2, Serious Sam 3, etc.), and CPU at 40-50 ºC. Heck, my roomates' computers run games fine with zero tweaking.
Strangely, Killing Floor 2 seems to run smoother, but the choppiness I'm talking about is very noticeable in most games, especially older ones like Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2. In some games, FPS randomly jump between 59-61 with VSync on. Most games have very, very noticeable screen tearing with VSync off. This happens in 2D games and applications as well.
In WoW, the game runs "fine" at first in fullscreen mode (but with the aforementioned choppiness), but if I Alt-Tab it will start having unstable framerate (59-61 with odd frame time, 10-30 ms but it's at a stable 16.6 before Alt-Tabbing); it seems to run fine in borderless window mode though (59.9 FPS 16.6 ms according to RivaTuner, 60fps in the in-game counter), but again, with that choppy feeling.
I am running the latest drivers of everything. GPU, LAN, audio, BIOS, etc. No overclocking of any kind, energy mode is set in high performance, GPU is currently in optimal power but I've also tried adaptive and high performance, etc.
I had actually RMA'd a 1060 of the same model before because of this issue, but the problem persisted.
Any idea of how to fix this? I have tried a lot of possible solutions from Tom's Hardware, the Nvidia official forums, several game forums and basically every result in Google related to this. I don't have a lot of spare money either so I can't replace parts before knowing what may be the source of this problem.
I have seen people who have the same or similar issues with 1060 GPUs, especially in the Nvidia forums, but they never got a definitive answer. But I don't know if this is an issue with all 1060s, I was unlucky to get two defective cards in a row, or the problem lies somewhere else.
This is LatencyMon after running for a minute:
https://i.gyazo.com/4562c977c5fdeb3c86373fb12f72f82c.png
It doesn't look much different after several hours, except maybe higher page faults.
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