I built it back in april last year, started definitely noticing stuttering around December
I have switched out each and every part and no difference has been made. Somehow I've managed to make the stutter more noticeable.
By stutter I mean I can't play at all.
I've tried newest official, newest beta, and older AMD drivers I still had from a while back
I've tried different HDMI cables / different monitors or TVs.
My ps3 and wiiu can stay at 60 without stuttering in games that can
I've had YouTube be wonky, after changing some settings back its playable now though I believe it drops some frames.
Interestingly enough a webm file of a racing game showing the.difference between 24fps and 60fps runs between 59 & 61throughout except one frame at the beginning and.one at the end that were probably fraps' fault.
I've tried HPET on/off in bios/windows
I've reinstalled windows (7) multiple times
And every component has been switched out.for testing, the MB & CPU are the only switched ones I kept.
I need an adult - _-
I've tried a different socket in the same room then one further but on the same circuit. My last chance effort is to try a socket in the other building that is on a different circuit (we've lost power to one and not the other many times)
Could it be software related. You have reinstalled Windows multiple times but have you also reinstalled everything else? There might be one program or piece of one that is throwing the entire machine off. What is the common piece of the puzzle.
I can't think of anything that I haven't changed besides getting power from a completely different circuit. Or shutting off power to the area and turning it back on. (It's a building split into three, two apartments and a storage room, which even if I turned off the power to just mine it might not do anything while doing all of it might, but, I don't want to mess something up and not have ANY power, ugh!
Since I've changed everything out hardware-wise the other things I can think of are:
Power being supplied from the wall (hardware monitor shows everything looking fine but if it's fluctuating at milliseconds it may not show anything wrong
Bios (but optimized defaults should be just fine, although I've tried many different settings, etc)
OS/Software I can't really believe because completely updated windows w/AMD's drivers, fraps, bench viewer (for seeing the results) and the heaven benchmark should result in happy fun times
So you've replaced all pieces of your build with new ones, or tested them with known working ones? Trying to get a better handle on everything.
Video stuttering when gaming could be temp related, driver related, or hardware related. Video stuttering in web playback could be all of those plus network related. What kind of temps are you getting on you card and the CPU and VRMs? If it's getting too hot, I could see that being as possibly being the issue at hand.
Reinstalled Windows again (amd catalyst uninstaller someone removed my keyboard / mouse...drivers? idk)
First thing I did was install an old AMD Catalyst driver set I had (but only the things it checks off automatically as well as the video drivers), then 007 Blood Stone. Everything felt fine and I played for a little while, then I installed my wireless adapter, Steam, and Surgeon Simulator. Same thing everything felt fine. I believe that windows was downloading updates at this might, I don't remember. But, after windows had done it's initial 'download all the things' I tried 007 again. I felt and saw the stutters again (Fudge)
I downloaded the latest Beta AMD drivers and installed everything, obviously I restarted the computer when it asked me to. When the computer came back on I noticed that it said new drivers where being installed and the "Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller" says it has Microsoft drivers from 2006 (I didn't check after the AMD installation but I had seen in a forum about stuttering that someone had a similar issue and that was supposed to be AMD drivers.
catalyst installer seems to still think the AHCI drivers are installed so I can't reinstall them.
Can this be an issue that causes stuttering? and is there something I can do to make Microsoft not replace AMD ones?
i have to say with my rig im suffering alot in flash / java game stuttering. this is probably cause by a terrible latency issue, between the sound and the crap realtek lan chip. if you have some lan card laying arround. just uninstall and disable the onboard realtek lan, and then look if you still have online stutter issues.
my youtube gets wonky if i swtich from normal to full screen, then i get a sound stutter, for just a second. this is probably caused by a latency issue between the realtek lan and realtek sound chip.
I've tried the current regular and current beta drivers, as well as some I still have saved from months ago
I have a rosewill dual band wireless blah blah, I did have issues with it a while ago to where I had to reinstall them/unplug plug them in again, but it never effected game stuttering.
I also just tried going to full screen in a youtube video I'm watching and nothing happened except the auto settings made it change to 1080p
I've changed every necessary component (CPU, GPU, RAM, PSU, MB, SSD/HDD) and got the same issue
Maybe this is a problem to report to AMD. Ever tried filing a bug report. They can and do help people. The only thing your doing here is showing graphs taken out of context. When all else fails go to the source.
I'm not sure how showing the speed of each frame being rendered is out of context. It's a visual representation of exactly what it happening.
I also have no way of knowing that AMD is the source of my issue. Two different processors/two different GPUs/two different MB's and about 5 different drivers sounds like its not a bug.
If anything I'd see Microsoft overwriting my AHCI driver installation as the only 'bug' here
Stuttering is still strange, seems like there is some bug somewhere indeed. or something is not stable. But yeah big question what it could be...
maybe you could monitor some gpu ussage wenn gaming, and look if the cpu is spiking, or that its something gpu related. if the cpu spikes or drops then it could maybe be some power related issue..
So AMDs support just wanted me to get the latest beta drivers, and blame optimization of the games. I reminded them it was in every game including BF4 using the Mantle API. Now I'm supposed to go get the latest non-beta drivers then report this to the driver bug people if it doesnt work (which is what i had before going to get the beta drivers...again)
Guess it's time to save up and go Intel/Nvidia/Windows 8
I have seen and dealt with AMD drivers going horridly wrong when Windows updates install. Is there by chance in the Updates a driver for the said AMD device? If so remove that piece of buggy software and install your drivers. If all else fails try a cheap Nvidia card to see if it really is a driver issue.
