Greetings,
A week, or so, ago I've upgraded most of my PC. Ever since, I've been noticing stuttering and frame hitching (of various levels) in games. The most jarring ones happen while playing Battlefield 1. They seem to mostly occur when stuff "happens" (projectiles land next to me, I aim down sights, a player pops into view), however it's not constant nor exclusive to those moments. I've been in very visually intense fights without the framerate dropping/game stuttering. I've tried lowering settings from Ultra to High and disabling Ambient Occlusion, I've tried enabling DX12, lowering resolution scaling from 125% to 100%. None of these seem to work. The framerate stays over 70, even on ultra, except for these hitches. The stuttering culminates with some 3-4 seconds of freezing which, so far, have happened once per map.
In Shadow Of War, there were about as many stutters when I used the Ultra texture settings which, according to the game, exceeded my video card's power despite having no issue running the game at 60+FPS. Switching to High, did come with fewer stutters, but they were still there. Total War: Warhammer 2 ran dubiously as well with hitches on the campaign map on higher settings (with SSAO disabled) and some 3FPS in a fight with 9000 models, although, that might have been a bit too much.
Stutters even happen in stuff like Diablo 3, which I had no trouble running on my old 960 :/. The two games I've played recently where I saw no (or just one-two) stutters were Little Nightmares and Warframe.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable when it comes to hardware values, but i did log some play sessions with MSI Afterburner. The Frame Time seems to be spiking a lot. As I cannot attach files to this post, should anyone be willing to look over them, I'd gladly mail (or otherwise send) them. That being said, you'll find my rig below.
Asus ROG STRIX Z370-H GAMING
Asus Geforce GTX 1070 STRIX, 8GB GDDR5, 256-bit
Intel Core i7-8700k Coffee Lake, 3.70GHz, 12M, Socked 1151
Thermaltake TR2 S 600W 80 Plus power supply
Thermaltake Frio Silent 14 CPU Cooler
Adata XPG GAMMIX D10 8GB DDR4, 2400 Mhz, CL16
HDD Seagate Barracuda 1TB
Zalman ATX Mid Tower Case
Asus VS248 Monitor
Windows 10 Pro
I'm new to Windows 10 and will say that I haven't dabbled too much into finding out which programs I should disable, mostly due to lack of time. So far, I've disabled Windows 10 Game Mode and Game Bar. I'm only using Windows Defender as anti-virus software.
My HDD is an older one (3 years or so). I've kept it solely due to financial reasons, as the parts I bought slightly went over my budget. I've tried clearing up space (went from 80GB free space to 200 and nothing differed). I've also used DDU to uninstall my video drivers and re-installed them which, evidently, did nothing. After installing the Realtek HD Drivers, I would get intense sound crackling. Upon unistalling Asus Sonic Studio, they went away, although in Shadow Of War I did have crackling occur. Sometimes, BF1's stutters are accompanied by, admittedly, subtle crackles.
Could it be that 8GB RAM is not enough? I've seen some articles saying 16GB is ideal.
Could it be the Power Supply acting up and not feeding enough power to the components? I've had this with a past build, but that one completely shut down my PC, where here, games do run well and do not crash.
Could it be that my GPU/CPU is broken? I'm not even sure if I could send them back with these complaints :/
Could it be the monitor? Am I just expecting too much from parts that aren't powerful enough?
Any suggestions would be appreciated, as this is very frustrating, especially on a (mostly) new build. If there are extra benchmarks or tests I can run to further help with drawing a conclusion, I will gladly do them. Should any further information be required, I will gladly try to provide it, to the best of my abilities.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that the parts aren't overclocked.
A week, or so, ago I've upgraded most of my PC. Ever since, I've been noticing stuttering and frame hitching (of various levels) in games. The most jarring ones happen while playing Battlefield 1. They seem to mostly occur when stuff "happens" (projectiles land next to me, I aim down sights, a player pops into view), however it's not constant nor exclusive to those moments. I've been in very visually intense fights without the framerate dropping/game stuttering. I've tried lowering settings from Ultra to High and disabling Ambient Occlusion, I've tried enabling DX12, lowering resolution scaling from 125% to 100%. None of these seem to work. The framerate stays over 70, even on ultra, except for these hitches. The stuttering culminates with some 3-4 seconds of freezing which, so far, have happened once per map.
In Shadow Of War, there were about as many stutters when I used the Ultra texture settings which, according to the game, exceeded my video card's power despite having no issue running the game at 60+FPS. Switching to High, did come with fewer stutters, but they were still there. Total War: Warhammer 2 ran dubiously as well with hitches on the campaign map on higher settings (with SSAO disabled) and some 3FPS in a fight with 9000 models, although, that might have been a bit too much.
Stutters even happen in stuff like Diablo 3, which I had no trouble running on my old 960 :/. The two games I've played recently where I saw no (or just one-two) stutters were Little Nightmares and Warframe.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable when it comes to hardware values, but i did log some play sessions with MSI Afterburner. The Frame Time seems to be spiking a lot. As I cannot attach files to this post, should anyone be willing to look over them, I'd gladly mail (or otherwise send) them. That being said, you'll find my rig below.
Asus ROG STRIX Z370-H GAMING
Asus Geforce GTX 1070 STRIX, 8GB GDDR5, 256-bit
Intel Core i7-8700k Coffee Lake, 3.70GHz, 12M, Socked 1151
Thermaltake TR2 S 600W 80 Plus power supply
Thermaltake Frio Silent 14 CPU Cooler
Adata XPG GAMMIX D10 8GB DDR4, 2400 Mhz, CL16
HDD Seagate Barracuda 1TB
Zalman ATX Mid Tower Case
Asus VS248 Monitor
Windows 10 Pro
I'm new to Windows 10 and will say that I haven't dabbled too much into finding out which programs I should disable, mostly due to lack of time. So far, I've disabled Windows 10 Game Mode and Game Bar. I'm only using Windows Defender as anti-virus software.
My HDD is an older one (3 years or so). I've kept it solely due to financial reasons, as the parts I bought slightly went over my budget. I've tried clearing up space (went from 80GB free space to 200 and nothing differed). I've also used DDU to uninstall my video drivers and re-installed them which, evidently, did nothing. After installing the Realtek HD Drivers, I would get intense sound crackling. Upon unistalling Asus Sonic Studio, they went away, although in Shadow Of War I did have crackling occur. Sometimes, BF1's stutters are accompanied by, admittedly, subtle crackles.
Could it be that 8GB RAM is not enough? I've seen some articles saying 16GB is ideal.
Could it be the Power Supply acting up and not feeding enough power to the components? I've had this with a past build, but that one completely shut down my PC, where here, games do run well and do not crash.
Could it be that my GPU/CPU is broken? I'm not even sure if I could send them back with these complaints :/
Could it be the monitor? Am I just expecting too much from parts that aren't powerful enough?
Any suggestions would be appreciated, as this is very frustrating, especially on a (mostly) new build. If there are extra benchmarks or tests I can run to further help with drawing a conclusion, I will gladly do them. Should any further information be required, I will gladly try to provide it, to the best of my abilities.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that the parts aren't overclocked.
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