Performance & Optimization
Frame rates, frame pacing, stutter and settings guides.
so i was right in the middle of a boss fight and everything just started flickering like crazy... weird colors and blocks appearing everywhere on the screen. i legit panicked thinking my card was about to go up in smoke lol. i tried restarting the driver and…
long time lurker first post lol ive played open world games uncapped forever because i thought more FPS always means less lag. Then a friend told me to cap at a few frames below my 165 Hz refresh rate with RTSS. It honestly felt smoother. Now Im confused.…
Oh, I like this one. Help me figure out what's going on with my laptop. Games start out somoth, then after a while I lose a big chunk of performance and the chassis gets really hot above teh keyboard. ive tried…
Ive spent more time staring at frame time graphs than playing... an Unreal Engine actoin game hitches in the first fight of each session. Its not constant, just these brutal little freezes. Then this showed up after a reboot: My RX 6800 sits at moderate…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts it doesnt matter which game, about fifteen minutes in, teh screen freezes and i get this: what am i doing wrong??
long time lurker first post lol trynig to understand VRR properly. my setup: monitor with adaptive sync, compatible GPU, cable that supports the full refresh rate. when FPS is inside the VRR range its lovely... when it goes above teh max refresh, i get…
fun problem! discussion: i think a lot of ppl treat upscaled or generated frames as equivalent to native rendering, and Im not convinced its that simple. to me, upscaling trades image quality for performance, while…
hmmmm ok question about simulation heavy strategy games. my late game saves slow down massively, but none of my hardware looks maxed out in monitoring tools. total CPU usage is lowish, GPU barely working. is this just…
guys pls help i finally tried frame generation in action adventures. the counter jumped way up from about 70 FPS, but something felt slightly off, like the game was smooth but my mouse wasnt. my friend swears its free performance. im not convinced. how do…
guys pls help I've been gaming happily for motnhs, but now I'm seeing green sparkles after I applied a memory overclock. screenshot from tonight: The card is a RX 5700 XT. I'm torn between 'it's a software thing' and 'start saving for a new GPU'. How do you…
long time lurker first post lol smth is choking my PC... loading screens take forever, textures pop in late, and a flight sim stutters constantly. task Manager: 100% disk, and teh response time numbers look scary. i suspect a cloud sync app, but Im not sure…
so annoyed rn smth is choking my PC... loading screens take forever, textures pop in late, and a large online shooter stutters constantly, task Manager: 100% disk, and the response time numbers look scary. I suspect Windows Update, but I'm not suree how to…
im literally losing my mind here a sci fi shooter looks gorgeous on my RTX 4080, but it keeps freezing for a split second every time i enter a new area. the FPS counter says high numbers, then a spike in frame time, then smooth again. after teh latest driver…
im literally losing my mind here a third person adventure looks gorgeous on my RTX 4070, but it keeps freezing for a split second during the first hour, the FPS counter says high numbers, then a spike in frame time, then smooth again... after teh latest…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts something is choking my PC. Loading screens take forever, textures pop in late, and a racing game stutters constantly. Task Manager: 100% disk, and the response time numbers look scary. i suspect Windows Update, but i'm…
I finally tried driver level frame generation in single player RPGs. the counter jumped way up from about 60 FPS, but smth felt slightly off, like the game was smooth but my mouse wasnt 😂 my friend swears its free performance. im not convinced. how do you…
i bought a souls like at launch and it stutters in the first fight of each session. Its like teh game is thinking for half a second, i also saw this: i've read that shader cache size and drivres matter, but every guide says smth different. can someone…
ok weird one genuine question from someone who doesnt fully get it.. 🙏 if my base frame rate is 50 FPS and driver level frame generation doubles the number on screen, is the game actually more responsive or just smoother to look at? and does that matter in…
im literally losing my mind here mid match my screen suddenly filled with flickering triangles. it looked like this: this happens only in one specific game. the card is a used RTX 3080. my heart dropped cuz I know artifacts can mean dying VRAM. I dont have…
Something is choking my PC. Loading screens take forever, textures pop in late, and a surivval game stutters constantly. Task Manager: 100% disk, and the response time numbers look scary. i suspect the antivirus scan, but Im not sure how to prove it. i…
a survival game kept freezing every few seconds, so i alt tabbed mid stutter and opened Task Manager. this is what i saw: Disk pinned at 100%. The game is on an external USB drive. CPU and GPU are nearly idle while it happens. Is my drive dying, or is…
guys pls help genuine question from someone who doesnt fully get it. if my base frame rate is 80 FPS and DLSS Frame Generation doubles teh number on screen, is teh game actually more responsive or just smoother to look at? and does that matter in strategy…
so annoyed rn hot take incoming: frame generation is amazing for some games and terrible for others. I've been testing it in single player RPGs starting from around 40 FPS, and the results are mixed. Curious where you all land on this. For some games it felt…
guys pls help something is very wrong with my used RTX 3080. Games show colroed checkerboard squares after a driver upadte: the desktop looks fine. it only appears under load. ive already reinstalled the driver. whats the right order of tests before I panic?…
ok weird one hot take incoming: frame generation is amazing for some games and terrible for others. Ive been testing it in competitive shooters starting from around 60 FPS, and teh results are mixed. Curious where you all land on this. For some games it felt…
