Stutter in all games. I feel as if I have tried everything.

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So I've had an issue that is really bugging me. In all games, mainly GTA V, Battlefront 2 and PUBG - I experience occasional stutters that I just canot get rid of. I feel as if i have tried everything under the sun as I have been looking for fixes for months now.

The worst stutters are persistent in BF2 campaign - where the game is actually unplayable. PUBG and BF2 Multiplayer though, are playable but just have small irritating stutters now and then.

My Specs:
i5 7500 @ 3.4GHz
GTX 1060 6GB
8GB DDR4
500GB HDD for Windows 10
1TB HDD for Games (I have tried to install PUBG on my OS hard drive - in case this HDD was broken. I still got stutters on this drive.)

Any help is appreciated, thanks a lot.

P.S - Here is a short list of the things I've tried:
-Disabling in-game overlays
-Disabling HPET
-Locking FPS to 62
-Setting Power Mode to High Performance
-Playing about with max pre rendered frames (3 on BF2)
-Threaded optimization on
-Disabling full screen optimizations
-Enabling XMP RAM in BIOS
-Disabling Win 10 game bar
-Uninstalling drivers with DDU then reinstalling
-Although I've not done a system wide check - I believe all other drivers are up to date
-This is what fixed the issue in BF2, well, it fixed it for a day before it broke again - Deleting NV_CACHE shaders before launching the game
 
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I suspect hdd pagefile induced stutters. Now even if portion of your memory is available doesn't mean Windows will use it.
https://www.m-files.com/user-guide/latest/eng/inspecting_page_file_usage_in_performance_monitor.html


Monitor your pagefile usage. Alt tab after half hr of gaming to check. Pagefile can increase over time so give it a bit. Pagefile usage means hdd usage and when hdd is used for memory causes stutters. If your pagefile is being used to extremes like creating 5~10GB size pagefile, another 8GB ram will help limit usage.
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I suspect hdd pagefile induced stutters. Now even if portion of your memory is available doesn't mean Windows will use it.
https://www.m-files.com/user-guide/latest/eng/inspecting_page_file_usage_in_performance_monitor.html


Monitor your pagefile usage. Alt tab after half hr of gaming to check. Pagefile can increase over time so give it a bit. Pagefile usage means hdd usage and when hdd is used for memory causes stutters. If your pagefile is being used to extremes like creating 5~10GB size pagefile, another 8GB ram will help limit usage.
 
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So I did a test and funnily enough:
Battlefront 2 campaign, when the stutters were at their worst - https://imgur.com/a/8T3EL
It's weird though, my RAM usabe was only 5-6GB out of 8GB.

Do you have any ideas how on earth to reduce this page file usage? I want more ram to be the last resort as it's gone up in price since I built my PC.

Thanks so much for the reply! I now know where the problem lies atleast.

 
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If pagefile is increasing only way of reducing it besides buying more is lowering vram usage or knocking off windows background processes. Usually high Vram usage will cause an increase of virtual memory if not enough system memory spared by Windows its not already occupying for itself to operate. Minus 1.5GB from 8, that's abouts whats left for gaming and thats just Windows alone.
 
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Hi,

Have you checked if your GPU or CPU is overheating?
I have seen out of the box cards (I know you have a 1060) that did not increase fan speed with temperatures.
It could very well be throttling back due to overheating. GPU should not go past 83C and CPU should also not go past about there.

Hope this helps,
Gabor
 
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Hi,

I have checked the temps while the issue is at it's worst and they look fine. The CPU never goes above 55 C and the GPU never really exceeds 57 C.

Thank you for the reply

 
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Yeah it makes much more sense to me.
Just did another test there - BF2 Campaign I was reaching 15GB pagefile usage and averaging out there. I've tried decreasing the pagefile size, increasing it and letting windows manage it. All either crash the game or do not fix the issue.

I'm reading lots of forums and sure enough, many people with 8GB ram have issues with stuttering in BF2 campaign. I think 16GB is what I'll look at to get next. Unfortunately I only have 2 slots on my MOBO though so I may end up selling my 2x4GB sticks to get 2x8GB sticks.

PC's suck lol.

Thanks so much for your help!
 
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