Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I recently bought a new pc. Every game that i play stutters all the time and I have no idea how to fix this fps goes from 44-200 fps on some games.

My specs:

Intel core i5-4570 cpu @ 3,20GHz
8gb of ram
gtx 660

Can you upload a video of the behavior?

Unfourtantly not. It’s fine for around 2 secs, but then it then starts to stutters.

Just tried Just Cause 2, stuttering still. It’s like every 2 secs it goes into slow mode kind of feel.

Use Task Manager (press Ctrl-Alt-Del) and disable as many start up programs as possible (the ones you know you don’t need). Then reboot.

If you have Windows 7, use MSCONFIG instead of Task Manager.

Already did that and no luck

This kind of issue is usually due to SLI like technologies like Ashley said, or heat.

And with the comments in this post my guess is currently overheating.

Stuttering when you enter a new zone is usually caused by a bottleneck in the memory bus when trying to push a large number of textures into the video card’s memory. Once that initial push is completed, you shouldn’t experience it again. Is the experience most pronounced when you turn around immediately upon loading? When turning, the graphics card is receiving the additional textures of the near area within your field of view, filling up that bus even more aggressively.

I have had the same experience with SLI and non-SLI in many games. Ways to test:

1. Stand still for 10 seconds upon entering a zone before moving
2. Reduce texture map and quality levels.
3. Difference between architecturally complex areas vs simple ones

Good luck!

I’m not sure why overclocking would have affect, unless your system is overheating and undergoing thermal protection speed throttling.

Allisa-

Overclocking can actually hurt performance if not done properly or pushed too far.

Hey guys thank you all for your advice it was an over heating problem going up to 98!

Sounds like your video card slot might not be set to full 16x (or you have your video card installed in the secondary video slot that is usually a 4x ONLY slot).

Try reseating your video card first (could just be not seated well) and then try to find out (via motherboard documentation or a 3rd party utility) about the speed setting of your PCIe video slot(s). (actually, it’s not a speed setting but a channel width setting that many users mistakenly call a speed setting)