A sudden loss of a frame makes your big gaming computer stutter and chopy in almost every game.
A sudden loss of a frame makes your big gaming computer stutter and chopy in almost every game.
Hello my name is Aaron. I will start by listing my specs and temps. My graphics card is an RTX 6700 xt, with 32gb of RAM from Ballistix running at 3000mhz. The power supply is an RM850x from Corsair, the liquid cooler is a Caprllix H150I, and I have four case fans all labeled LL120rgb. My motherboard is a B550m from Gigabyte Ultra Durable, I have a 7200rpm hard drive (HDD) and a fast 4tb NVMe SSD that holds my Windows OS plus some games. When I am just sitting there not playing, the GPU gets up to 60c while the CPU is around 38c and uses very little power at all. Once I start gaming, things get much hotter. The GPU might go up to 95c and use a lot of power at the same time as the CPU uses between 20c and 55c. My memory sticks are getting warm too, ranging from 18c to 27c.
The main problem I have is when I play games like The Forest or CSGO. For most of them, the game goes down to about 14fps, which creates a stuttering judder that feels almost like my computer is freezing in real life. This happens randomly and can take up to ten minutes for it to happen all at once, but right after it starts dropping suddenly from 100fps down to maybe 5fps with some annoying micro-stuttering. I used to have this problem with CSGO too until I moved my game from the old 5-year-old HDD to a new NVMe SSD, and now that is fixed for me. I do not have any overheating issues or bottlenecks at all. However, there is one game where even on a fast SSD, I still get bad problems with 7 Days to Die. I am using Windows 11, my GPU drivers are up to date, and my BIOS has been updated as well. Even though I have tried rolling back the drivers many times without success, it seems to be stuck here. If anyone else can tell me how to fix this or if they ever face similar issues with games dropping frames randomly, that would mean a lot of help because I am not the only person having this problem.
Not really a fix, I wanted something that actually worked. After trying everything and fixing things, I found out my AMD GPU card was fine. But the software and drivers were just bad. Switched to an NVIDIA 3070 Ti and suddenly all those problems disappeared. Oh well, with AMD, game developers aren't giving support or drivers yet. That sucks because their hardware is really good. Hope they fix this in a few years.
follow these steps one by one in order: Disconnect from internet. Uninstall every GPU driver using DDU without restarting, keep all options checked for AMD settings. Remove all processor drivers from Device Manager as well (you need 16 of them since you have 16 threads). When the program asks to restart your PC, say no and finish uninstalling all processors. In Control Panel, uninstall AMD Chipset Software if it is already there; skip that step if there are none. Reboot your computer to load the BIOS, disable AMD fTPM and secure boot (turn them off if they are enabled by default), then save and exit. Go back into BIOS again and flash the latest BIOS so it has version 1.2.0.7. After finishing the update, go back in BIOS, set your settings to defaults or optimized, enable the fastest XMP profile, then save and exit. As an optional step, disable CSM and turn On Above 4G Decoding and Resizable Bar (these features won't work if CSM is on). If your GPU supports it, try turning XD on too; this only works if you successfully followed all previous steps correctly. After everything finishes, boot up into Windows and install the newest Chipset driver (make sure it is version 4.06.xx or newer), then restart the computer. Go to Power Plan and choose Ryzen Balanced instead of your usual plan. Install the latest Radeon driver, restart again, and connect to the internet now. *Do all these steps offline before starting step 1 so you can follow them in order.* Run Command Prompt as Administrator, run chkdsk /x /f /r, then do sfc /scannow and check Windows Update for any updates (except optional ones). Make sure your power supply unit has at least one PCIe cable per slot. Use the main cable, not split cables or branches.
First, I'll run a quick check using memtest86 to be sure my computer is running smoothly and works correctly in dual channel mode.
It's not really a fix, but it worked for me. After testing and fixing everything, I found that my AMD graphics card itself was fine. The problem was the software and drivers. When I switched to a new 3070 Ti, all my issues disappeared. It is sad though because with AMD, game developers just don't seem to be giving them good support right now. That's really frustrating since their hardware is actually pretty good. I am hoping that this changes in a few years from now.