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    Game stuttering

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Emil8x, May 7, 2019.

  1. Emil8x

    Emil8x Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi everyone, I bought a new dell G3 gaming laptop and I'm having stuttering issues in games and across the OS (mouse lags, average performance). Everything is up to date including BIOS. I ran XTU, gamed a bit and then applied an undervolt. Here is the results:

    Game: Battlefront II 2018
    Settings: 1080p medium
    Specs: i5-8300h, GeForce 1050Ti, 8GB RAM, 1TB SSHD
    Set on Best Performance and default NVidia control panel settings.

    Results:
    Thermal Throttling but CPU speed stays the same
    Around 100 deg CPU
    Around 80 deg GPU
    CPU utilization up and down
    Thermal throttling spikes only after -125 mV undervolt

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    GPU voltage spikes
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    What do you make of this? Thermal throttling is not the issue because CPU speed doesn't dip and I don't see any unusual spikes except the GPU voltage (which I have no idea what that means...). Could it be the SSHD or the RAM ? I checked some benchmarks and SSD's don't increase FPS and 8 GB of RAM is sufficient.

    Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
     
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    Emil8x, May 7, 2019
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    8gb of ram these days isn't enough. 16gb is enough. Did you try not to undervolt so much?
     
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    I didn’t try undervolting less but while I play The Crew for example (an older game) it doesn’t use all the ram. It uses around 5GB out of 8GB but its still lagging. For battlefront, I tested it and indeed it does eat the ram. I am thinking the hard drive is the issue even though many people say it doesn’t affect fps...
     
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    Just don't undervolt at all and see if it lags... most likely you are cutting too much power (voltage)
     
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    Thanks for the help. I added another stick of 8GB of RAM and now the stuttering is gone.
     
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    Yeah I had the same issue with my MSI gaming laptop It would stutter in Just Cause 3 so I installed an extra eight gigs of RAM and Wallah problem was fixed. welcome to nbr
     
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    Exceeding 8GB of RAM means access to your pagefile, which is on your SSHD.

    An SSHD cannot even remotely catch up to the speeds of an SSD, not to talk about RAM speeds. I would say it might be a RAM problem too.
     
    jaug1337, May 8, 2019
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    Its single channel vs dual channel...not the amount of ram...rather the speed....8gb is more than enough...two 4gb sticks would result in the stuttering going away also
     
    JRE84, May 8, 2019
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    Came here to say this. +1
     
    hfm, May 8, 2019
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