CFT and TN spikes

I thought I had it fixed. I noticed that whenever the lag was happening, two cores would swap states with each other, from parked to active. Every single time.. smoking gun!! I found a way to disable parking in the registry, butttt I it didn't fix the issue. 

I got some lag quickly into a new round and the only thing I could see at the time of the lag was a quick dip and spike on 2/28 cores. All other cores looked fine. GPU usage dipped at the same time too. 

There seems to be some sporadic down clocking on some of the cores, but not at the exact time that the lag happened. 

Image of cores swapping when parking is enabled (default):

If a core is spiking the next step is to figure out what's causing it. App, driver, CPU frequency downclocking.

I would start by watching the CPU frequency in Task Manager to see if it's being downclocked to a lower frequency due to power saving settings.

Thanks for the response! 

If a core is spiking, what would be my next step?

I watched the video and there's a large CPU spike of what appears to be 345ms.

The next thing to look at is if any of the CPU cores are reaching 100% usage in Windows Task Manager. It line graphs all of the CPU cores which will show if any are hitting 100% usage, which I suspect one of the cores is hitting 100% usage.

To see if any CPU cores are hitting 100% usage in Windows Task Manager.

• Run the game in windowed mode (alt + enter)
• Open Task Manager (alt + ctrl + del)
• Set Task Manager to 'always on top' by clicking option
   

Now you can play the game and monitor CPU usage per CPU core. If any CPU core hits 100% usage the game will stutter. This is important because it only takes one CPU core hitting 100% usage to cause the game to stutter.

To see CPU usage per core in Windows Task Manager, open the Performance tab, then right-click on the CPU graph and choose "Change graph to > Logical processors".

Here's a vid showing a couple stutters. I have a couple more if required. Most showed a high yellow CPU spike on the in game graphs.. A couple did not however. 

https://youtu.be/fFvp9ktlytI

elderwarriors​ , yup absolutely everything disabled. 

Do a google search of "msi afterburner problems" or similar, and you will see many people have problems with this program. 

Also, Windows update can have the same effect. Or perhaps another program updating or running in the back ground. I know you said that you shut them all off, but did you ? .

Your pc specs say you should have no problem playing this game, so something running momentarily from it or too it would evidently be the problem.

Posting a screenshot of PerfOverlay.DrawGraph right after the stutter occurs will help us with troubleshooting. Even better would be posting a video of the stutter with all the graphs onscreen.

Enabling the graphs and fps doesn't show anything new. 

I tracked all cores in MSI Afterburner and it shows a dip when I get the stutter. 

I looked up what the blue line is on the LAT/ALAT graph and it's TN - Time nudge. I changed DNS and tried on WIFI over ethernet, still have the same issue. 

Unlikely that it's a network issue given I don't have this issue on any other game. 

The red circle on the right in your screenshot shows the client frametime (CFT) spiking up to 16ms. This means your PC's framerate is spiking up to 62fps during the spike. (1,000ms ÷ 16ms = 62fps)

I'm not sure what the blue line is for in the red circle on the left. The blue line appears to be for packet loss out. If that's the case then your PC also stops sending network packets to the server at the same time the 62fps CFT spike is occuring. Your PC appears to be momentarily freezing/stuttering during the spike.

Here's a post where I helped a forum member troubleshoot PC stutter. These console commands will help with further troubleshooting.

PerfOverlay.DrawGraph 1
PerfOverlay.DrawFps 1

Note the posts about monitoring individual CPU core usage with Windows Task Manager. It only takes a single CPU core reaching 100% usage to freeze/stutter the game. Windows Task Manager must be configured to show individual CPU core usage. Instructions on how to do all this are in the link below.

Intermittent micro-stuttering on on all screens main menu and in game. | EA Forums - 12155692