[SOLVED] Frametime spikes/Stutters/FPS drops in all games.

[eidairaman1]

[Solved ] I had the same issue, not only video games but whole system frame and audio stutters every few seconds. if you check your framerate, it would show a smooth 60 or 90 FPS but the video shows stutters every few seconds.
Things I tried:
1. Clean reboot
2. Re-installed Windows 10
3. Tried base drivers originally with Windows
4. Upgraded all graphic drivers
5. Changed all power options
6. Upgraded my BIOS

Final Solution:
I downgraded my windows to windows 8.1, every things is fine now, no video audio stutters.

I will try installing windows 10 again to see if it remain the same.

Definitely give it a try!

Instead of installing ontop of 8.1 get a spare drive to test with a fresh OS

 

[oliseo]

I was just about to go down the path of reinstalling windows. Because Witcher 3 next gen was causing frame spikes every 10 seconds on horse, every few mintues on foot. I went to try and have a nap before I did, but I couldn't sleep due to the stress. So I got up, checked one more time, by eye, and couldn't see any. Did so on a few games. Launched MSI afterburner to double check what my tired eyes were seeing.

Transpires it was MSI afterburner all this time!! I can't even beging to tell you how angry I am right now. The very thing that I thought was helping me, was the very thing causing my issue. A few others have had the same experience. One guy told another who was having the same issue, that it happened to them as well, and the solution was to turn off power monitoring for the GPU in the settings, as they needed it for a undervolt on their 3080.

I have no idea how true this is. As I uninstalled afterburner. I can't believe how many hours I've wasted and getting frustrated when all along it was this garbage POS.

Now, I'm not saying this will work for anyone but me. But after YEARS of frustration wondering why I get frame spikes regardless of what motherboard, what CPU, what GPU, I've owned, I've always had frame spikes. To discover that I've been plagued by this software all this time. I'm more mad at myself than anything else.

I'm sure there will be a lot of people who try my fix, and discover for themselves how it feels to be me. It's as much as a slap in the face as discovering your best friend has been stealing from you.

Maybe you can still use afterburner with the fix that other guy said to do. If so, congrats.

But I'm so livid I even created an account just to post this. As this thread came up when I searched for "MSI afterburner causing frame spikes".

I can only hope that people give it a try, and it fixes their issues, then I'm glad I've finally given them some peace of mind.

EDIT: Just re-read my message, and yeah, not sure how you can undervolt and turn off power monitoring as well. So I went back and found the post they made, thinking I obviously must have read it wrong, being as tired as I am. But nope, I was right. Here is their post.

RVeldhuizen83
There is no need to delete Afterburner.
I need Afterburner for my RTX 3090 undervolt, but also experienced stuttering. The solution was to go to settings, monitoring, and disable all monitoring for GPU power.
Reboot.
Stuttering is gone. Everything runs as smooth as butter."

Again, I haven't tested this, and have no intention to do so either. I will not be installing it ever again.

 

[blackjack_br]

I don't know if you still having the issue, but I would love to give you an advise, sometimes is not your pc components, but the (electricity) there is something called (dirty electricity ) and 85% of people have dirty electricity, but while a 15% of them lives in proper buildings with proper electricity companies that offer a clean service, with less margin of errors

In your case i will highly recommend if you live in America go for a Panamax Power conditioner 110/120v
but if you live in Europe Australia, go for a 220/240v Power conditioner FURMAN.
Also make you sure to buy too a UPS double conversion (it has to be double conversion) that will keep the electricity frequency stable, and the power conditioner will clean the high electricity spikes, mantain the In/out voltage aka 110/120 or 220/240

And I can asure you, that you will have a crisp sound/crisp image, no longer stuttering, or visual lag, less input lag, you will be fixed

Cheers

Are you saying to connect my PC to a UPS, the UPS to a power conditioner, and the power conditioner to the outlet?

 

[kDude]

and the solution was to turn off power monitoring for the GPU in the settings, as they needed it for a undervolt on their 3080.

Is power limit included in the settings to uncheck or is it unrelated to power/power percent?

 

[Frick]

I was just about to go down the path of reinstalling windows. Because Witcher 3 next gen was causing frame spikes every 10 seconds on horse, every few mintues on foot. I went to try and have a nap before I did, but I couldn't sleep due to the stress. So I got up, checked one more time, by eye, and couldn't see any. Did so on a few games. Launched MSI afterburner to double check what my tired eyes were seeing.

Transpires it was MSI afterburner all this time!! I can't even beging to tell you how angry I am right now. The very thing that I thought was helping me, was the very thing causing my issue. A few others have had the same experience. One guy told another who was having the same issue, that it happened to them as well, and the solution was to turn off power monitoring for the GPU in the settings, as they needed it for a undervolt on their 3080.

I have no idea how true this is. As I uninstalled afterburner. I can't believe how many hours I've wasted and getting frustrated when all along it was this garbage POS.

Now, I'm not saying this will work for anyone but me. But after YEARS of frustration wondering why I get frame spikes regardless of what motherboard, what CPU, what GPU, I've owned, I've always had frame spikes. To discover that I've been plagued by this software all this time. I'm more mad at myself than anything else.

I'm sure there will be a lot of people who try my fix, and discover for themselves how it feels to be me. It's as much as a slap in the face as discovering your best friend has been stealing from you.

Maybe you can still use afterburner with the fix that other guy said to do. If so, congrats.

But I'm so livid I even created an account just to post this. As this thread came up when I searched for "MSI afterburner causing frame spikes".

I can only hope that people give it a try, and it fixes their issues, then I'm glad I've finally given them some peace of mind.

EDIT: Just re-read my message, and yeah, not sure how you can undervolt and turn off power monitoring as well. So I went back and found the post they made, thinking I obviously must have read it wrong, being as tired as I am. But nope, I was right. Here is their post.

RVeldhuizen83
There is no need to delete Afterburner.
I need Afterburner for my RTX 3090 undervolt, but also experienced stuttering. The solution was to go to settings, monitoring, and disable all monitoring for GPU power.
Reboot.
Stuttering is gone. Everything runs as smooth as butter."

Again, I haven't tested this, and have no intention to do so either. I will not be installing it ever again.

Vindication! I have said for quite some time now that Afterburner sucks.

 

[eidairaman1]

Vindication! I have said for quite some time now that Afterburner sucks.

Based upon riva tuner, and trouble is i doubt msi cares about the tool

 

[ParadiseBound]

I tried a lot of different things on here and nothing worked for me. What did end up working for me was changing my CPU performance profile in Ryzen Master Software. I have a Ryzen 5950X running with a 4070 super Ti and was stumped trying to figure out why I was getting very consistent FPS drops/Stuttering every 10-20 seconds. It would last for about 10 seconds and then go back to normal. Mine issue was not random, it was quite cyclical when I watched the performance graphs.

After changing my Ryzen Master profile to "eco-mode", every single game plays absolutely perfectly. Apparently my CPU was not optimized and after so many seconds it would just throttle, which caused the lagging. I am now working on further optimizing the settings to get optimal performance for my system.

Some of you are much smarter than me on this CPU stuff so you will probably think I'm an idiot for not recognizing that as my issue earlier, but thought I would share that for people that may not be aware of this being a possible cause as well.