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Yeah I've tried VGA/DMI same issue. Turns out it's not the monitor. I have no idea what to do now... I've tested so much but the answer still isn't clear.
I've tried all of those drivers, it's made no difference.
At this point I think it's either the CPU, PSU, or the motherboard. I mean can the motherboard even cause an issue such as this?
I check my CPU readings and everything looks normal, I check my PSU voltages and everything looks normal. I just don't get it.
There's not a single spike or drop in the CPU readings when I hitch or stutter in a game. However, both my HDDs show spikes when it happens. Would that indicate a problem with both HDDs? Or maybe it's the SATA slots on the motherboard... But wouldn't the motherboard beep or come up with an error if that were the case?
Yeah sorry I meant to say that I did check for that, it's not filling up and paging at all. :\I didn't ask to test the ram, I was having you check to make sure, for some reason, its not filling up and paging out to your HDD.
Try updating your audio drivers.
Then try rolling it back one version...They're up to date.
Well I tried this and didn't see anything strange like that. I've also rolled back my GPU drivers to a time where these games ran perfectly fine for months. Thoughtful idea, but I don't think it's the issue.Another train of thought: Is it stutter because something outside the game is causing the stutter, or is it stuttering because the game itself is having problems?
MSI Afterburner (as I'm sure other software) will allow you to see Frametime, which tells you how long it took the video card to process a single frame of the game. Normally, anything higher then 16ms spent on a single frame is going to cause FPS drops, which can appear as stuttering. What I saw in your example video looks very much like that. By all accounts, a game that old should run butter smooth at 60fps, but if the game engine wasn't optimized, or the current video driver isn't optimized for that game, too much eye candy on that wasn't optimized, etc, etc, you can still get stuttering because of high frametimes. I have a couple of oldies like that; some that have the occasional high frametime, others that constantly have high frametimes. They should run 60fps+ no problem with my setup, yet rarely do.
If you have a 2nd monitor, you can watch your frametime while you game to get an idea of what is going on game wise. Have Latencymon open as well, maybe you can see if there is a high dpc/hard pagefault that coincides with the high frametime.
Not so sure it's telling me I have a straight up audio issue, it's just saying my computer is slowing down so much it's having trouble performing audio and other tasks. I did try rolling the drivers back though, no dice.^^ Single card, but worth a shot...
Then try rolling it back one version...
You mentioned audio issues from Latencymon, right?
I am a bit confused with your post 'tried this didn't see anything strange like that' - what does that mean, you tried the frametime in MSI AB and didn't see anything above 16ms?
At this point, I would try anything suggested to you that you did not already do.