Stuttering with gtx 670

[SteveTheDave]

Hi I was wondering if anyone could help me, I recently built myself a gaming computer and I have noticed that I get stuttering on my games. It isn't that noticeable on some but on others it is much more noticeable. It isn't audio stuttering, just video.

Things I have tried so far; V-Sync On/Off/Adaptive, Ambient Occlusion Off/On, Updated all BIOS/Drivers, tried a different KB/Mouse, uninstalled/reinstalled drivers.

Specs:
Windows 7 64 bit
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
12 gb ram
GeForce GTX 670 (OC'ed out the box)
Asus P8Z77-V PRO
1.5 TB HDD

If anyone could help it would be much appreciated .

 

[SteveTheDave]

If you need any more information just let me know because I really want to try and fix this

 

[cookybiscuit]

Which games?

 

[SteveTheDave]

Which games?

All of them. Well all of the ones I have tested it on so far (Crysis 3 Beta, Battlefield 3, Shogun 2, Medieval Warfare).

 

[cookybiscuit]

Interesting. Did you try reverting the global tab in the control panel to defaults?

 

[SteveTheDave]

Interesting. Did you try reverting the global tab in the control panel to defaults?

Sorry for being a noob about this but by that do you mean pressing "restore" on the nvidia control panel? Just want to double check.
If you do mean that, the answer is no I haven't.

 

[SteveTheDave]

Just incase you did mean that, I have tried it and it hasn't made a difference.

 

[bystander]

Can you describe the stuttering, and what settings you are using? A single 670 is not going to have a good time on any of the games you listed if you set it to max.

 

[SteveTheDave]

Can you describe the stuttering, and what settings you are using? A single 670 is not going to have a good time on any of the games you listed if you set it to max.

All of the games I have listed I am playing on preset high settings at the moment. The stutter seems to persist no matter what the settings are. I honestly cannot describe the stuttering, it happens every second or so and it seems like there is an almost unnoticeable pause in the frames.

 

[bystander]

You wouldn't happen to have some background apps running, stealing away resources, such as a virus scanner scanning at the same time you are playing. Perhaps a backup process. One second stutters are often from other parts of the system.

 

[SteveTheDave]

I did actually check for this earlier and it turned out that hamachi was taking up 12% CPU usage. After uninstalling the problem continued.

 

[SteveTheDave]

Has anyone else got any ideas? I will try and provide as much information as I can.

 

[SteveTheDave]

If it is anything important, when using vsync my frames seem to fluctuate from 61-57. I believe I have seen the stutter happen when the frames drop bellow 60.

 

[cooldudesubho]

Crysis3 beta stutters on everyone pc.I was getting BF3 stuttering with the current beta.So i went back to .70whql to fix it.I don't know about the other 2 games.

 

[SteveTheDave]

Crysis3 beta stutters on everyone pc.I was getting BF3 stuttering with the current beta.So i went back to .70whql to fix it.I don't know about the other 2 games.

Well I will try going back to previous drivers when I get back from work. I don't think it will work though since the current drivers and the beta drivers are causing the same problems for me.

 

[SteveTheDave]

Crysis3 beta stutters on everyone pc.I was getting BF3 stuttering with the current beta.So i went back to .70whql to fix it.I don't know about the other 2 games.

Unfortuneatly it didn't make a difference . Any other ideas?

 

[cooldudesubho]

Unfortuneatly it didn't make a difference . Any other ideas?

Have you capped your BF3 fps to 60?

 

[SteveTheDave]

How do I check? Would this also be the case with the other games? Without vsync I get 60-150 fps on bf3, but the screen tearing and stuttering is so horrendous I have to put vsync on.

 

[SteveTheDave]

UPDATE:

After putting in my gtx 560 ti, I still got stuttering. It seems like something else is the problem.