Poll of the Day > Need your help, PotD-- Dreaded *Micro Stutter*

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Happy Saturday, guys!

Okay, so I've only had this problem once before with Skyrim: Special Edition. I tried everything I could think of to eliminate the stutter (sudden drops in framerate every couple of seconds that make it impossible to play without frustration).

Adjusting/lowering graphics settings, messing with V-Sync, making sure it wasn't some obscure input problem-- and obviously making sure drivers are up to date. It was infuriating to the point where I said fuck it and bought the normal version of Skyrim.

It might be important to note that I didn't originally have a problem with Skyrim Special Edition. It worked great for the first 5 hours I played it (which is why Steam wouldn't refund me). At some point in time, it began micro-stuttering when no updates or changes were made in between.

Without posting ALL of my specifics, here is a little bit of my rig to start I'll post specifics later if it might be part of the problem. I don't think it is because my other games run great

- Windows 7 Professional
- i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67 GHz 2.79 GHz (earlier gen; not the best, but good enough with my graphics card usually)
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 106 6GB
- 12 GB RAM
- 465 GB HDD (trash, but for most part only affects my loading times... again, doesn't affect other games, either)

Can post more as requested. I just bought CoD WWII and I was so stoked to play this game... Haven't played CoD since MW2. And it's stuttering ;__;

Curious if any of you have ever found a fix for something like this.
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What you described doesn't really sound like a micro stutter. Sounds like something could be overheating and throttling, try a hardware monitor with an overlay to check your temperatures and clockspeeds during play.

Red_Frog posted...

What you described doesn't really sound like a micro stutter. Sounds like something could be overheating and throttling, try a hardware monitor with an overlay to check your temperatures and clockspeeds during play.

That certainly might be promising. I'll try this. Every community I've looked into seems to be suggesting it's micro stutter.
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Well, micro stuttering is very specific but as a term it gets thrown around haphazardly. Running smoothly but freezing momentarily every few seconds is not micro stutter, micro stutter is a constant effect that usually only plagues Crossfire or SLI configurations although rarely it can be seen with singular cards which are multi-GPU.

It's a difficult thing to visualize if you've never seen it firsthand, but the effect feels similar to watching something like a 50hz video on a 60hz display. The video will be smooth, but still appears strange from the variances in timing.