Performance & Optimization
Frame rates, frame pacing, stutter and settings guides.
im literally losing my mind here my gaming sessions have turned into slideshows. heres Task Manager while a large online shooter is running: The drive is an old hard drive. It started a couple of weeks ago out of nowhere. Before i buy a new drive, how do i…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts mid match my screen suddenly filled with flickering triangles. It looked like this: This happens since i bought it used. The card is a RX 6800 XT. My heart dropped because i know artifacts can mean dying VRAM... i dont…
There are so many opinions about frame caps. Some say use teh in game limiter, others say never cap in MOBAs. Id love to hear what pepole actually run on 144 Hz screens and why. Please share ur setups and what made you choose them. Bonus points if youve…
ive played fighting games uncapped forveer cuz i thought more FPS always means less lag, then a friend told me to cap at a few frames below my 144 Hz refresh rate with teh driver limiter... it honestly felt smoother, now Im confused... whats teh actual…
smth is very wrong with my GTX 1080 Ti. games show flickering triangles after i applied a memory overclock: The desktop looks fine. It only appears under load. Ive already reinstalled the driver. Whats the right order of tests before i panic? Temperatures in…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts my GPU fans scream at full speed in menus and in competitive shooters because teh frame rate is uncapped. Ive got a 144 Hz monitor. Is there any real reason not to cap, or am i just burning power for nothing? 😭 i also…
I bought a souls like at launch and it stutters during the first hour. It's like teh game is thinking for half a second. I also saw this: ive read that shader cache size and drivers matter, but every guide says smth different. can someone explain it simply?…
Ive been gaming happily for months, but now Im seeing colored cehckerboard squares after the card gets hot. Screenshot from tonight: the card is a RTX 2070 Super. im torn between its a software thing and start saving for a new GPU. how do you actaully narrow…
guys pls help mid match my screen suddenly filled with black flashing textures. It looked like this: this happens since i bought it used. the card is a RX 6800 XT... my heart dropped because i know artifacts can mean dying VRAM, i dont have money for a new…
a new open world game looks gorgeous on my RX 7700 XT, but it keeps freezing for a split second during the first hour. The FPS counter says high numbres, then a spike in frame time, then smotoh again. After teh latest driver install i also got this notice: I…
ok weird one something is choking my PC. loading screens take forever, textures pop in late, and an open world RPG stutters constantly. task Manager: 100% disk, and the response time numbers look scary... i suspect a cloud sync app, but Im not suree how to…
long time lurker first post lol ive played fighting games uncapped forever cuz I thuoght more FPS always means less lag. then a friend told me to cap at a few frames below my 120 Hz refresh rate with RTSS. it honestly felt smoother. now Im confused. whats…
Ive spent more time staring at frame time graphs than playing :D a third person adventure hitches during teh first hour. Its not constant, just these brutal little freezes. Then this showed up after a reboot: my RTX 3060 sits at moderate usage during the…
