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I will just copy what i wrote on my upcoming yt video description, will give link to it when its done sending :

So as you can see I am having this problem with the gpu. And before you say its cpu bottleneck, listen to this:

The gpu usage % drops happen most of the time in cities in witcher 3 or even gta v. Lowering settings wont help at all, problem is still there. When i ran the GTA V on the absolute max settings problem was gone, the gpu usage was at 90-99% in city but fps didnt pleased me (40-60 in city, 30-40 in grassy areas). Ive read about this on some forums and it doesnt happen only for me. There are people with better cpu`s that shouldnt bottleneck at all having the same issue as me. Sadly for Witcher 3 my GTA V trick didnt work and gpu usage drops down like crazy, I even have to run my games on high priority so it wont drop to even 2%.

If youre still convinced that it is the cpu fault, you can go and check out videos with my cpu and gpu in games. They just wont shutter at all.

I would be thankfull if you guys have any suggestions how to fix that problem.

My specs:
i5 2500k (stock)
GTX 1060 6GB (OC in the special app)
8GB of ddr3 1600 mhz ram
p8p67le motherboard


I am also wondering if the random shutters may be caused by the lack of ram?
 
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Just took a look at the video, it's definitely because your CPU is lagging behind. Any time your GPU drops below 99% utilization your CPU is pegged. This will definitely cause stuttering.

I would check two things: 1) Is there any other application running at the same time which is using a significant percentage of your CPU. 2) What is your CPU core clock throughout gameplay; is it staying at the expected value, or is it dropping below?
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Monitor your CPU usage and core clock along with your GPU usage and clock. When your GPU usage dips and your getting sub par fps, what is your CPU doing? Is it maxed? Core clock dropped? There may be a rogue application eating up processing power, or it could be a power saving feature that is kicking in at the wrong time.

If you have a second monitor you can just throw up windows built in performance monitor under the task manager. Otherwise using something like MSI afterburner/HWinfo will let you display all this information on screen while your in game.
 
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Yes I used DDU a lot :). i had driver stopping working issue before and i figured out it was 1 fucked ram brick. Got new ones now. GPU is kinda new, got couple of months. You wil see my cpu and gpu usage soon in a video, uploading 40 % now. My upload speed isnt the best...
 
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Strange thing is, in Witcher 3 and GTA V in both, my gpu usage is fine when im outside, in some grassy area, forest, its 99%, 98%, stable most of the time. Cities really change it.. But you will see everything on a video.
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fApRzbzlaM&feature=youtu.be This should be link to the video but its still at 74% uploading. Should work when its done, it says theres still around 36 minutes.

 
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Getting "This video is unavailable", before it was informing me that it was still processing. Not sure if I just need to wait a little longer or if something messed up.
 
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Just wait, should be there soon, it finished uploading now its doing some other thing. Idk how to translate that.
 
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Just took a look at the video, it's definitely because your CPU is lagging behind. Any time your GPU drops below 99% utilization your CPU is pegged. This will definitely cause stuttering.

I would check two things: 1) Is there any other application running at the same time which is using a significant percentage of your CPU. 2) What is your CPU core clock throughout gameplay; is it staying at the expected value, or is it dropping below?
 
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I tried checking if theres any apps like that, but not really, only applications running were nvidia geforce experience (with shadowplay ofc) and MSI Afterburner.

I will try to OC my cpu soon.. cause i saw some videos and games worked fine when it was overclocked. Also i will do some testing with cpu clock values thru gameplay and let you know, same for gpu.
 
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Yeah, from what I have read it looks like the CPU will overclock fairly well. I'm assuming you are not running stock cooling?
 
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I changed it to new one from other intel cpu, dont remember which one that i had laying around. Shouldnt be any difference and i heard it can OC to 4,5 on stock cooling, this one shouldnt be any worse i guess.
 
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