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    G73JH-Performance Tip for AMD GPU users for stutter/lag

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Yiddo, Jun 11, 2011.

  1. Yiddo

    Yiddo Believe, Achieve, Receive

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    Chastity was talking to me about this earlier and I have applied it to see if it helps my slow downs. +Rep should go to Chastity if you find it helpful.

    Microstuttering and laggy playback is an all-too-known issue with any gaming system, and some good people on the net have come up with a possible issue with AMD installs:

    AMD installs a service to write to the Event Log called ATIeRecord. If your event logs are huge and/or fragmented, then this service will record while you are gaming, and the recording lag from bad fragmented system files will hammer your performance with lags and stutters.

    The fix?

    Disable the service.

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atierecord]
    "eRecordEnable"=dword:00000000

    Set to "1" by default which enables it.

    Clearing out the event logs is the only known way to defrag the log files, and NVIDIA users can experiment with this as well.

    When a system is fresh, the log files are small and so record quickly, however, over time, they bloat and indexing these files are slow, and high priority according to the OS. This is why your games slow down because of this.
     
    Yiddo, Jun 11, 2011
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  2. cayocayo

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    thanks to chastity and to you. so if we use SSD, this microstutter and laggy playback will not happens even we dont use this fix?
     
    cayocayo, Jun 11, 2011
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  3. pato

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    Just checked some more sites regarding that issue and saw in catalystcreators twitter feed that the issue should be fixed with 11.7 :)
    Thanks for your tip though!
     
    pato, Jun 11, 2011
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  4. Chastity

    Chastity Company Representative

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    This was a collection of info gathered from the IRC channel and posted on asusrog. :)
     
    Chastity, Jun 11, 2011
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  5. BumbleBoner

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    Seemed to help somewhat with my Bulletstorm stutter. I still get a tiny bit, but I can't rule out placebo.
     
    BumbleBoner, Jun 12, 2011
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    Thanks Dallers and Chastity..

    Here's the script for clearing your entire eventlog if anyone's interested..Just copy-paste it into a text file and rename it with a .bat extension and run with admin privileges
    It'll help speed up bootup time a bit..


     
    kurtcocaine, Jun 12, 2011
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  7. Damian_jo

    Damian_jo Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have same problem with suttering in games like Mafia 2,Metro 2033,GTA 4 and Prototype - is it fixed by @up post ?
    I will disable that service from ATI too :)
     
    Damian_jo, Mar 19, 2012
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  8. JonnyFrost

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    I used that script and now my system start so slow that it seems like dead, so sloooooooow...
    Do it only delete files log or does something else?
    If so No way to reverse that?
     
    JonnyFrost, Mar 20, 2012
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