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Title: LONG stutters
Post by: SirNuke on August 25, 2017, 01:29:29 AM
the directx 11 hiccups are still happening to me...the game freezes for a second and then goes on. It seems like all the textures are being reloaded in the process as 3D objects become white then regain their texture in a fraction of a second.

Is there any way to launch the steam version in dx9?

Thank you.
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: FLS on August 25, 2017, 01:38:45 AM
Curious what your VC temps are when you get stutters.
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: SirNuke on August 25, 2017, 03:18:28 AM
I'll check it out but the stutters are pretty constant and don't happen in any other game. I don't have any artefacts either.
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: Skuzzy on August 25, 2017, 06:24:19 AM
There are other games it will happen in.  You just may not have them.

A DXDIAG output might help as well.
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: SirNuke on August 26, 2017, 03:24:52 AM
I cleaned my computer and changed the PSU yesterday, I'm at 90°C on the GPU under load and the freezes are still happening...here is my dxdiag
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: Bizman on August 26, 2017, 04:49:17 AM
You might want to update your BIOS. It looks like there's half a dozen BIOS versions newer than yours, many of which improve either video card compatibility or performance among other fixes.

You apparently haven't installed the Nvidia HD Audio driver. You may also want to disable the "Contrôleur High Definition Audio" in the Device Manager, that's the Nvidia Audio running on native Windows drivers.
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: Skuzzy on August 26, 2017, 05:28:34 AM
You might want to update those video card drivers as well.

I have to say this the first time I have seen 3 different monitors, with vastly different resolutions, connected to a video card before.

Also, did you do the overclocking of the CPU?  Might want to try stock settings as well, for a bit.
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: SirNuke on August 26, 2017, 06:14:05 AM
ok I'll work on that, my temperature is borderline aswell
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: SirNuke on August 26, 2017, 06:15:55 AM
everything was stable up to now so I was on a "if it ain't broke don't fix" mentality :)
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: Skuzzy on August 26, 2017, 06:34:55 AM
If your CPU temperatures are borderline, Intel CPU's will roll back the speed of the CPU and that behavior cannot be over-ridden.  It is a last ditch protection mechanism Intel has had for many years.
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: FLS on August 26, 2017, 12:10:18 PM
If you don't have fan speed control for the GPU get MSI's Afterburner. Increasing my fan speed drops the temps from 90 to 60 under load.
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: Bruv119 on August 26, 2017, 04:25:58 PM
everything was stable up to now so I was on a "if it ain't broke don't fix" mentality :)

it's not your machine nuke the micro stutters or pauses have been on-going for ages now.  very frustrating.
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: Zoney on August 26, 2017, 04:41:25 PM
it's not your machine nuke the micro stutters or pauses have been on-going for ages now.  very frustrating.

True, but it isn't everyone's machine either.  I spent big bucks on a new system so I could play AH3 and mine runs absolutely perfect under all conditions.

My old system was 10 years old, I could not expect it to run ANY of the newer games better even though this is the only one I play.
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: Bruv119 on August 26, 2017, 04:44:59 PM
True, but it isn't everyone's machine either.  I spent big bucks on a new system so I could play AH3 and mine runs absolutely perfect under all conditions.

My old system was 10 years old, I could not expect it to run ANY of the newer games better even though this is the only one I play.

is that running DX11 version windows10?

have had the micro pause on old machine and new.   
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: Zoney on August 26, 2017, 05:08:47 PM
is that running DX11 version windows10?

have had the micro pause on old machine and new.

Yessir.

I have Cox cable high speed yada yada yada and a connection that very rarely fails.
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: SysError on August 26, 2017, 06:17:55 PM
I have been experiencing what I would call “stuttering” as well.  I do not know if in fact we are experiencing the same type of issue, but I would say that the game “stutters” on me, sometimes to the point of making AH3 “unplayable”.

Although I am not playing AH3 as much as I used to (and would like to), including today, I have had three different experiences were the game became “unplayable”.  In each case, however, I noticed that my PC (Win 10 64 bit) was downloading an MS update in the background.  I waited each time for the updates to download, (which on one occasion meant waiting over an hour), and then AH3 would seem to be fine.

I do not know if this is all just a coincidence, I am just putting my observations out there.

(BTW: I have an older PC, (8 years old?), and while I had to upgrade the video card, the PC itself is not that far off from the AH3 Recommended specs.  Just a guess, but I think that this issue might be unrelated to a PCs age or spec). :old:


Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: Skuzzy on August 26, 2017, 07:20:36 PM
Like Zoney said, not all computers display the long pause.  I have never seen it in my home computer or my work computer.  Hitech has not seen it on his systems either.

It also seems AMD may have fixed it in a driver update.

It really feels like a resource issue between the video card and driver.  By the way, GTAV has the same long pause issue as well, but it will not show up on every computer.

No one, to date, has been able to provide a reliable method to recreate the issue and a lot of people have tried.
Title: Re: LONG stutters
Post by: SirNuke on August 29, 2017, 12:59:49 AM
Updating my nvidia drivers, flashing my bios and fixing my temperatures didn't do the trick. I'm back on the dx9 version which works flawlessly.