Stuttering - SOLVED

[millstonebarn]

I, and I know several others, have experienced some horrible stuttering when jumping into a new system, and especially when dropping out of supercruise at a station - it's particularly noticeable at Orbis stations. After half a second or so we'd get really bad graphical stutters for a couple of seconds. It was seriously hampering enjoyment.

I found the cause (at least in my case) so wanted to share it in case it helps others. I have NVIDIA graphics cards in SLI mode and had thought that might be the issue - at one point I disabled it and tried running with just one card as it seemed a little better.

But no. It was simply the NVIDIA in-game overlay. The thing that you activate with Alt-Z. Having disabled this in GeForce Experience all of my stuttering is gone.

I know from other threads that this also gets in the way of hi-res screen shots as it grabs the Alt-F10 shortcut too.

I haven't uninstalled GeForce Experience just yet, but it could well be on the cards.

I really hope this helps others if they're in the same situation.

 

[Canoe]

Definitely a cause, I removed GeForce Experience a while back, as well as disabling game DVR and Overlay settings in Windows 10. Marked improvement even for a GTX970.

 

[varonica]

Definitely a cause, I removed GeForce Experience a while back, as well as disabling game DVR and Overlay settings in Windows 10. Marked improvement even for a GTX970.

Yeah I have experienced that with a number of different programs running in the background. I think one was the joystick software, at one time it suddenly fixed after closing my browser that was running in the background. It's not always going to be something running on the computer that causes it, but you should always check and kill any unnecessary processes if it does happen just in case.

 

[Kingston@#]

stopped using GE yrs ago, due to many issues it had.
i now use game dvr to record and screenshot.
precisionxoc for an overlay.
if recording GP, record to a separate drive from your OS. really needs to have a rpm of 7200. recording to OS drive is a big no in my opinion. reasoning behind this is system cant read and write to the same drive at the same time. this causes stuttering and lag.

 

[Flimley]

Yes I stopped using the Gfarce experience a long time ago. After the first few months of use I began to discover it conflicted directly with ingame settings. So I made it go away....forever.
Glad you have discovered that also !

Flimley

 

[Cmdr Esteban]

I stopped using GE Force Experience when the version came out that required me to create an account with username and password. I object to that. So I uninstalled the software, and noticed an improvement in the stuttering issue as well.

 

[Krieger]

I uninstalled GE almost a year ago and life has been good ever since. No more interference by useless updates that do not even apply to my type of graphics card. No more weird graphics glitches after updates that have to be patched by yet another update. No more crashed update processes requiring manual intervention to correct, etc, etc.

I'm back to a strict policy of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'.

 

[Cmdr-Wotherspoon]

I recently switched to the nVidia thing to capture video. I get stuttering when but only when the continuous loop recording mode is enabled. No noticeable problems otherwise. I'm using a vanilla (i.e. not "Ti") 1080 card.