Why can't I run games smoothly despite having high FPS?

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thenebrok123123

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First of all I would like to thank you for reading this thread! I have been struggling with a problem ever since I have built this new PC and I have no idea how to fix it even though I've tried lots of things.

The problem is that in any game that I play despite having large amounts of FPS (100+) I get stuttering, it happens in older games like Runescape/Doom or newer titles like Bioshock Infinite or World of Warcraft. The stuttering feels like the game constantly freezes for 0.1 sec when I'm moving my camera around. This experience results in a non smooth gaming experience which is really frustrating. I have to point out that what I'm seeing is def not screen tearing but a form of stuttering/micro stuttering and none of the components are overclocked!

Because I'm struggling with this issue for such a long time I even went and bought new 2 RAM sticks, new power supply, new monitor and I even upgraded my OS from Windows 7 to Windows 10 but the issue is still there. There are only 4 components left that could be causing this: HDD, GPU, MOBO or the CPU but I have no clue how to find which one is the culprit for this problem. It could also be some sort of a setting that I need to enable/disable in order to fix this issue but again I have no clue what that settings could be.

Would really appreciate if you guys could help me out, I have no clue what to do anymore and I am down to literally try anything you guys suggest...

PC SPECS:
- Asus GTX 970 STRIX 4GB OC edition
- i5 4690k 3.5 Ghz quad core with a stock cooler
- Z97 MSI Gaming 5
- WD 1TB HDD
- Samsung CFG73 144Hz 1ms
- 2x 8GB HyperX Fury 1866 Mhz
- Corsair CX600
 
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I think you should start to monitor your frametimes.
Install msi afterburner +rsst and look up the frametime graph after some gameplay.

Also I would recommend setting a fps limit to a level your gpu is able to steadily mantain. If you see heavy frametime spikes you could probably solve it by overclocking your cpu a bit.
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Peter Martin

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When your gaming pretty heavy switch tabs the windows and go to the Resource Monitor and look at your CPU load and your network loud and your drive load this will give us a clue as to what is going on.

For one of my machines I have to disable malware bites or the machine runs like a dog stuttering

Latency Monitor is nice too. It can reveal which drivers are causing latencies if any
 
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thenebrok123123

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Thank you so much for responding. I launched World of Warcraft which is one of many games where I'm experiencing this issue. I first went into a really populated capital city where my average FPS was between 60-80, here I could see lots of stuttering everywhere, then I went into a low/medium populated zone where my average FPS was between 140-160, here the stuttering was minimal but still decently noticeable, then I went into a zone where I got 180+ FPS and the stuttering there was minimal and not that noticeable but still there.

Here are the pictures listed in chronological order of task manager from each zone that I went to in World of Warcraft and the DPC latency checker scan that I left running for 5 min. https://imgur.com/a/JsFhKzp

Also if it helps I grabbed a Speccy snapshot http://speccy.piriform.com/results/soVqTMoG3UWimrkZfciEc1N

PS: I find it weird how when I go to a zone (the capital city) where my FPS drops to 60-80 the CPU usage is still at 60% and the GPU usage at 30% when it probably should be at 100% to give me more FPS in those zones...
 
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The thing is I reinstalled drivers multiple times, I rolled them back, I reinstalled my OS and I even upgraded my OS but nothing changed. Power saving feature is set to maximum performance in Windows 10, in Nvidia control panel and when I limit my FPS to 144 which is also the refresh rate of my monitor the issue is still there but maybe a bit less noticeable.
 
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I think you should start to monitor your frametimes.
Install msi afterburner +rsst and look up the frametime graph after some gameplay.

Also I would recommend setting a fps limit to a level your gpu is able to steadily mantain. If you see heavy frametime spikes you could probably solve it by overclocking your cpu a bit.
 
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Have you tried a different gpu? I mean just try some older gpu you have lying around, and pretty much anything can run doom so try that.
I have the same issue except its in newer games that my old cpu bottlenecks. It seems like a cpu issue to me. Or just something with drivers. Happens on both win7 and win10 so its not bloatware on 10.

And just to make sure, this happens in all games?

This is really weird.
 
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Serinox

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Another thing, how is your hdd usage? You can look it up in the "recource monitor" of windows by typing its name in the start menu.
Often hdds are running at 100% load at all times when the os is installed on them. It might be the case here.

A ssd for the os would give you a massive performance boost, so you should upgrade it anyways.
 
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Yeah it could also be the hdd. If its when he is turning the pc is probably having problems loading in stuff which may be because the hdd cant give the cpu the files or whatever. Im guessing xD.
 
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Yeah your monitor is just way too sensitive showing even the slightest discrepancies.
That's why it supports freesync I guess,you would need this to make your monitor refresh itself only if it get's a new frame.
What you can try right now is to go to nvidia control panel and change the vsync method to fast,it's not quite as good as gsync/freesync but it might be enough.
 
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