Stutter help

TGiordano92

Been trying to figure out my stutter problems with this game for a long time now, only stutters in this game none of my other, and support failed to help me. The game will randomly drop 10-20 fps when I am moving around and also if I am just standing still I watch it fluctuate like crazy. Support spent a good three days trying to figure it out, no luck. So I have a couple questions to help my search for a solution...

The questions if anyone knows the answer:

What is pre-rendered frames in nvidia control panel actually do? Could it help stutter?

What is the GPUSmoothingFrames option in the ESO Usersettings.txt file actually do? Could it help stutter?

Any other settings in nvidia control panel/usersettings.txt (support told me to set gpusmoothing to "3" but did nothing), Interested in what the heck it is.

If it matters:
I have a 780ti
i7 4790
144hz gsync monitor
16gb ram
480gb ssd

Thank you!

TGiordano92

Anyone?

Sallington

Try turning off AA. I got less stutter on my 970 by turning off AA and just downsampling a from 1440p.

I'm assuming your drivers are up-to-date.

Nestor

Try the game under clean boot

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

Tailger

I made a thread a few weeks ago with a similar problem.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/138332/framerate-stutters-animation-hitches-and-user-interface-unresponsiveness

Try the two powercfg commands I listed in my second post, they helped tremendously.

TGiordano92

Sallington wrote: »

Try turning off AA. I got less stutter on my 970 by turning off AA and just downsampling a from 1440p.

I'm assuming your drivers are up-to-date.

Thanks for reply, I have tried downsampling and disabling aa, I even tried the lowest possible settings and still get stutter

TGiordano92

Nestor wrote: »

Try the game under clean boot

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

Thanks for advice, tried it, no luck. I even completely reset windows to factory and still same problem.

TGiordano92

Tailger wrote: »

I made a thread a few weeks ago with a similar problem.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/138332/framerate-stutters-animation-hitches-and-user-interface-unresponsiveness

Try the two powercfg commands I listed in my second post, they helped tremendously.

unlocking cpu cores was one of the first things I tried through a program called parkcontrol, it might have helped a little but not very noticeable.

Thanks for reply.

TGiordano92

also: I have a gaming laptop that can run eso near max settings and it also has the same stutter. Took it to my friends house just to try a different network and same thing happens.

Dedhed

Hey, I've noticed this issue in conjunction with the GPUSmoothingframes option. When set to "0" it was awful, but setting it to "10" cleared things up completely.

If you've changed settings for your graphics card itself, I'd recommend putting those back to default at least for trying this fix.

RSram

Before you do anything to your computer try connecting your computer to a friend's network that isn't in the same neighborhood. If the game plays without jitter then its either your internal network, the ISP's network, or both.

If you are using your own router, you can plug your computer into the ISP's modem; Make sure your computer is up to date with all patches, your firewall is enabled, and you have AV software installed before doing this! If the game works fine, then its a setting in your router that is causing the problem.

Like you I have no problem with other online games, just with ESO, The jitter could caused by a routing issue between your ISP's network and the ESO network. The problem seems even worse since I switched to AT&T.

You can test your network connection using the following link:

myspeed.visualware.com

TGiordano92

RSram wrote: »

Before you do anything to your computer try connecting your computer to a friend's network that isn't in the same neighborhood. If the game plays without jitter then its either your internal network, the ISP's network, or both.

If you are using your own router, you can plug your computer into the ISP's modem; Make sure your computer is up to date with all patches, your firewall is enabled, and you have AV software installed before doing this! If the game works fine, then its a setting in your router that is causing the problem.

Like you I have no problem with other online games, just with ESO, The jitter could caused by a routing issue between your ISP's network and the ESO network. The problem seems even worse since I switched to AT&T.

You can test your network connection using the following link:

myspeed.visualware.com

Yeah I have tried at a friends house, multiple actually, but everyone I know notices the jitter/stutter since I have told them. So I think I have came to the conclusion to stop trying and just accept that it is the game. I even saw this stutter in a dev live stream.

jeevin

I've had this jitter/stutter since launch and just assumed it was the game as it's the only game that does it on my PC. My comp runs AMD 9370 @4.5GHz water cooled, 16GB ram, AMD 280X, Mindows 64bit 8.1 on corsair ssd's and my interwebs run at 7.8Mbps download and upload at1.5Mbps so I'm pretty sure the specs are okay.
I find that it sometimes gets worse the longer I play too which is a bit strange in itself.

Ourorboros

I had a major stutter issue after months of playing flawlessly. Turned out the GPU fain was failing. Fixed the issue, no stutter. Just suggesting you take a long hard look at video card.

someuser

Yeah, I notice stutters too on my i5 4690k / gtx 770 even though my frames are 50 - 60+ and my latency 40 - 60.

I just tell myself its server side to keep my sanity.