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RandomNinja
Sep 14, 2011

Protector of the innocent, assassin of the unjust, and a lover of delicious, sweet, creamy Ice cream.
Problem description: any game I boot in to seems to stutter about once a second. By stutter, it seems to be a momentary pause and then jump, almost as if the frame rate drops to 0. However I've used FRAPs and it doesn't indicate any particular kind of issue in terms of Framerate, though I've heard it's not perfectly accurate. In addition, I've been told that when I stutter in-game, it's actually reflected by my avatar (in either Borderlands or GTA V)

Attempted fixes: I upgraded my graphics card from the Radeon HD 7850, to the Radeon R9 300 4G edition. I've tried using a different HDMI cable, and different driver versions (from the latest Beta, to the latest stable driver, to the older driver versions as well). running everything stock, and I've even attempted down clocking the GPU to no avail.

Recent changes: I first noticed the issue occur when I upgraded the driver to the latest beta driver on the 11th of September. At that point I still had the HD 7850. Once I noticed the stuttering I rolled the driver back, but the issue kept occurring, at which point I bought a new graphics card. issue was resolved after installation until yesterday, where it started reoccurring.

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Operating system: Windows 10 PRO

System specs: Motherboard is ECS Z77 H2-A4, 8 GBs of RAM, Gigabyte Radeon R9 300 GPU, Intel i5-3570k running stock, Seasonic 520W 80+ Bronze PSU

Location: Canada

I have Googled and read the FAQ: Yes

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Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

Check CPU temp using realtemp: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/Real_Temp/

Check HD health using CDI: http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html

RandomNinja
Sep 14, 2011

Protector of the innocent, assassin of the unjust, and a lover of delicious, sweet, creamy Ice cream.

Temperatures are fine, and so is the health of both my multiple hard drives and my solid state drive. like I said, it's all games, be it Race the Sun, Jedi knight 2, or GTA V

Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

Try running DDU: http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/?q=node/5

And then installing the latest beta videocard drivers.

RandomNinja
Sep 14, 2011

Protector of the innocent, assassin of the unjust, and a lover of delicious, sweet, creamy Ice cream.

Zogo posted:

Try running DDU: http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/?q=node/5

And then installing the latest beta videocard drivers.

Tried it, still happening. Seems to only occur when the FPS is above 30, since GTA will run at ~22FPS and there's no noticeable stuttering there. I've also switched from HDMi to DVI, just in case the HDMI input on my monitor was no good, and it didn't help.

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Zogo
Jul 29, 2003

I'd try using the onboard video temporarily and seeing if that acted differently.

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