Stuttering issues while playing Black Desert Online

pothsn

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I just built a new PC and am experiencing significant graphics stuttering playing BDO.

My specs are:
Asus GTX 1070 Turbo
Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 ghz
MSI B350 PC Mate motherboard
Crucial MX300 M.2 2280 525GB SATA III 3D NAND Internal SSD
16GB RAM Team T-Force DARK (8GB x 2) DDR4 3000
Windows 10 Pro

My GPU usage is typically at 99% which I understand is not supposed to be a bad thing. My CPU usage hovers around 50%. My FPS ranges from 70-110 give or take a few points. This is on high settings and the performance doesn't change a whole lot when I crank them down. Maybe a few more FPS but the stuttering remains.

Monitoring temps with CPUID HWMonitor my CPU shows a temp of 56c, and the GPU is at 82c. The GPU temp seems high, is this a potential flag for the problem?

I have spent the past few days searching for fixes and tweaking settings based on what I have found on the game forums. This includes manually changing many advanced settings in the Nvidia control panel. I also reinstalled windows and cleaned out my graphics drivers with DDU and reinstalled them. All of my other drivers and BIOS are up to date.

Some have said it's probably the CPU bottlenecking, so I've come here to see if anyone can tell me if that is the case or if it is possible something else is happening. The person who helped me pick out the parts for this machine also uses the Ryzen 5 1600, but with an older AMD GPU, and he says he does not get any stuttering playing the game.

Furthermore, the machine this new PC was to replace is a 2013 Alienware laptop and I did not have stuttering problems though I needed to play on low settings to get fair FPS.

Specs for that machine:
Intel i7-4800MQ 2.7 ghz
GTX 770M SLI
Windows 10 home

Lastly I'll add that BDO is known for being a CPU intensive game. But several have said that this Ryzen should be enough. My only other idea is that it's a storage issue, but the M.2 SSD I have seems to be fine. It's at 63c if that means anything.

Thanks for reading, I'm miserable please help!
 

BigBoomBoom

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Ryzen does not play nice with BDO. It doesn't play bad like AMD FX but the game is not optimised for more cores nor AMD architecture.

82C is kinda bad for your GPU, you need to increase thermal limit via Afterburner or whatever equivalent you use. It is by default thermal throttle limit, i.e it will down clock to prevent further temp increase. This is because you buy a blower card, temp is always worse.
 

BigBoomBoom

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Depends, if stutter is indeed cause by frame drop due to GPU downclock by thermal throttle, yes absolutely. Even if it's not there is no reason not to, these GPUs run fine up until 90C. NVIDIA just like to lock a lot of parameters for safety.
 

pothsn

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OK thanks. I don't know how to do this, so I will have to figure out how it works and try it when I get home.

I also posted on the official BDO forums, and someone linked this as a possible solution: https://www.reddit.com/r/blackdesertonline/comments/49n8sg/psa_solution_for_win10_users_that_are/

There are a lot of comments in there with different suggestions as well.
 

pothsn

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Does the CPU usage I'm getting indicate it is not CPU bottlenecking? I'm thinking the best shot I have is to overclock, and wondering what the chances are it will give me a smoother gameplay experience.