Game Stuttering Exactly Every 10 Seconds
Product: F1 23
Platform:PC
Please specify your platform model. PC
Summarize your bug Game micro-stutters exactly every 10 seconds making it unplayable. The stutter is not registering as a FPS drop.
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Which area is the bug/glitch in? Single Player
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Playing the game in any mode.
What happens when the bug occurs? Exactly every 10 seconds the game freezes for around 0.5 seconds.
What do you expect to see? Game freezes/stutters.
When running F1 23, I'm getting a micro-stutter exactly every 10 seconds which is making the game unplayable. This stuttering occurs in all game modes and in the main menu.
The stuttering occurs when running a benchmark however it does not register as a frame drop.
This is only occurring in F1 23 and F1 22, no other games are having this issue on my system. Assetto Corsa, ACC, and iRacing all run perfectly.
System specs:
128GB DDR4
RTX 3090
i9-7980XE
Game installed on an 850 EVO SSD (and also tried on a 960 EVO)
I have troubleshooted the following and nothing has fixed it.
- I have verified it's not graphics/video settings in-game causing the issue by individually adjusting all settings and also by dropping graphics settings to lowest and the issue still persists. I have also tried in all variations of Windowed/Fullscreen etc and there is no impact.
- Updated to latest version of Windows
- Clean install to latest Nvidia drivers through DDU
- Clean reinstall of the game
- Reinstall of the game to a different drive
- Ruled out the monitor/cable as tested with a different screen
- Disabled all non-essential background programs
- Disabled OpenVPN
- Disabled and then uninstalled Asus AI Suite 3
- Uninstalled peripheral software including Corsair Link and icue
- Unplugged both ethernet connections for WAN and LAN
- Updated motherboard BIOS to latest
- Unplugged wheel (Fanatec CSL DD)
- When logging with hwinfo, there are no spikes or anything unusual at the 10 second mark - ie so doesn't seem to be CPU or GPU throttling.
- Individually changed each game-specific setting in Nvidia Control Panel
- Updated audio drivers
- Disabled all audio devices, including onboard and external USB DAC
- Given the exact 10 second frequency of the stutter, I thought it could be USB related. However I have ruled this out:
- Unplugged all USB devices
- Unplugged the USB controller on my CPU AIO cooler
- Updated USB drivers
- With Event Viewer in Windows, there are no logs for a device being unplugged/plugged-in every 10 seconds, so can rule out a USB issue.
I have spent a long time trying to fix this issue. I believe the problem is with the game as the issue is not happening in any other games. Could there be a unique background process I have not discovered that is affecting just the F1 games? It's at the point now where I'm considering a full Windows reinstall, but I'm reluctant as I'm not confident this would fix the issue given that other games are running perfectly fine.
Has anybody experienced anything similar to this? Any assistance would be most appreciated.
