5 years ago

Anyone getting the same random stutter ingame?W/ frametime graph (3080)

It's always the same stutter with the same pattern (It looks like 3 quick frametime spikes ingame and 1 stutter in MSI hardware monitor) its how I recognize it every time.Happens once/twice randomly almost every game.

https://www.capframex.com/sessioncollections/f05e8810-fe09-49bb-ab6d-977fee918fc2 results of when it happens.

Rig:3080,9900k,3200mhz 16gb,970 evo SSD 500gb.

Things I tried
-Tried updating Mobo bios
-Various drivers (DDUcleaned) (currently on 457.51)
-Hardware acceleration disabled in chrome/discord
-All overlays disabled
-Gamebar disabled
-Fullscreen optimisation disabled
-Disabling reflex w/ command "+gfx_nvnUseLowLatency 0" Some people are saying disabling reflex doesn't actually work but when I use the command the game doesn't cap the fps to 138 anymore so it works?
-Vsync off

-Clean windows 10 install

-Admin mode

Trying to look for ppl with the exact same issue so I can atleast try to figure out if it's something ingame thats causing the issue (because whatever it is its the same culprit everytime)

Update1:Yea I found another user with a VERY similar spike https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Massive-fps-drop-season-7/m-p/9991537?attachment-id=47834... from thread https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Massive-fps-drop-season-7/m-p/9991537#M95349

Update2:So far the only thing that points me to the game is this thread https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/3080-tuf-oc-ed-same-stutter-in-apex-once-twice-a-game-w-frametimegraph.436073/ where I monitored the issue with "windows performance tool".The results said its either the game/driver and that the game seems to hold to thread 0 for too long. (Whatever that means)

Also my brother had the very same 3 quick micro stutter randomly happen in his game too.

148 Replies

Konform103
5 years ago
@wiseolddude there's certain points in the map where if you look a certain angle suddenly your fps drops or your cpu spike..

the epicenter is one of those places filled with those types of issues i just avoid it all cost
wiseolddude
5 years ago
Must be a fairly recent thing then because when I used to play on my 1080ti/driver 442.59 2 months ago this wasn't an issue for me.
I've also had it happen to me while in a building randomly too.Exactly same type of stutter as shown in the picture.I'm wondering what in the hell it could be ingame that could be causing the issue.Its gotta be the same thing because the frametime graph ingame basically looks the same (those 3 frametime spikes) every time it happens.
Tried playing an hour of WOW and altought the game suffers from the occasional micro stutter I did not once get the this specific 3 in 1 micro stutter like in Apex.I'm thinking it's something specific to apex?
Konform103
5 years ago
@wiseolddude maybe use CapeFrameX if you want to get in depth (it works with rivatuner).. its kind of an analysis tool

anyway i'm running it here and then.. i notice a spike in frametime happens at the same time as the gpu usage drops painfully low
wiseolddude
5 years ago
@Konform103 I'm looking the program up and it doesn't look like it could give you the source of the issue.From what I'm seeing on youtube it tells you what happened but now what's happening/causing the issue.

Looks like a more advanced hwinfo64 tbh
PsyhiX69
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I have the same with RTX 2080 ti. Random spikes..
wiseolddude
5 years ago
Yea I found another user with a VERY similar spike https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Massive-fps-drop-season-7/m-p/9991537?attachment-id=478340#M95349 from thread https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Massive-fps-drop-season-7/m-p/9991537#M95349
I also saw the very same 3 quick micro stutters happening on my brothers PC(he had a frametime graph up).The issue is with the game.I'm 100% sure of it atm
supermatze0202
5 years ago
@wiseolddude I have the same problems with a 2080ti and amd r5 5600x. Very annoying
Sp4ceb4lls
5 years ago
In all the nvidia drivers that have nvidia reflex feature the fps limiter is broken so the frametimes will go up and down (stutters)
are you using nvidia control panel fps limiter?
gsync on ?
also try this in the origin/steam launch commands +gfx_nvnUseLowLatency 0 it disables nvidia reflex (is on by default) for apex but still the fps limiter is gonna be broken so use rtss to limit your fps
wiseolddude
5 years ago
Already tried all that.No difference.I updated the thread with stuff I tried trying "fix" the issue.
Considering I met another user with extremely similar frametime graph and the fact my brother had the same 3 quick micro stutters at once randomly I can only conclude its either something with the driver or the game itself.
Sp4ceb4lls
5 years ago
do you use gsync + vsync + low latency ultra in nvidia cp?
do you cap the fps with nvidia cp ?!
don t cap the fps with +fps_max command the frametimes are terrible, use rtss!