GV-R587UD-1GD Radeon HD 5870 stuttering... Help!!

[MrKvisler]

Hey Guys,

thanks to all that helped out when I was having problems with my system last time :-)  System has been running stable but I have just noticed something that I hope you can help with.

When playing games my system stutters in a cyclic fashion when displaying graphics.  As an example, when playing Batman: Arkham Asylum or Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands and rotating the camera continously the rotation will stop for a splitsecond and then continue. I noticed the stuttering for the first time when playing PoP: Forg. Sands because the game was unplayable because of the annoying stuttering. It is more subtle in Batman but still there for sure.

So far I have tried:
Disabling AV and AntiSpyware - no change
Disabled AA - no effect
Disabled VSync - no effect except for tearing
Checked if Sata Ports are failing - no errors in event viewer
Updated Graphics driver via Windows - no effect
Checked Power Supply with Aida64 - voltage levels are stable within +/- 5%

My system is rock solid in Orthos, Prime, Memtest and Furmark for days and is running cool. Games are installed on dedicated Raid 0 Raptor array and load fast.

When turning of the AA I was running frames 110+ easy in PoP: Forg. Sands and the system still stuttered significantly. First I thought it was just that game but then I noticed it in Batman as well. Can't figure it out so any help is much appreciated...

Thanks!

- R

[Aussie Allan]

 you did not state what res your running.....try dropping a level or two and see if there's a difference.

 Aussie Allan

[MrKvisler]

Sorry forgot to mention it completely 

I am running 1920x1200. Another thing that might be worth mentioning is that I am running two monitors, the other monitor is 1280x 1024. My primary display though is the bigger one and that is the one that I play on.

Thanks for the suggestion! I will try changing it when I come home after work and see if that makes a difference.  I never had the problem though with my GV-R487-512H-B Radeon HD 4870, it would just drop my framrate if I ran it to high, not stutter like what is going on for me now... weird.

[Aussie Allan]

 For the life of me , I've seen this issue posted before and a fix was found, maybe this will jog someone's memory.....Also , do you game across both Monitors when this problem makes itself known ?

 Aussie Allan

[MrKvisler]

No I only play on the Primary 1920x1200 monitor, never on the small one (although it is on).  I have googled the problem liek crazy and I haven't found a fix that works yet. People have suggested failing powers supplies, failing SATA ports and some problem with VSync where they have used Rivatuner to set it.  I have checked SATA and Power Supply nad nothing there. I downloaded Rivatuner but the card is so new it's not supported yet... don't know if I could try it anyway...

[Aussie Allan]

 Have a look here:http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=3534389&postcount=151

 might be of some help........

 But mores to the point, ... use the search tab above and put in "Flickering".......lots of thread to go through, that,s how I found this one!

 Aussie Allan

[MrKvisler]

I'm back,

so now I have tried lowering the resolution as much as I could and all the different modes do nothing. I still have the cyclic stutter going on.  I did try Rivatuner "D3DOverrider" but it didn't help either... I started up Dragon Age and Darksiders to see if the problem was there as well because I didn't remember it and I could see no tendency of stuttering there.  So it seems like a fluke that I started playing two games that has the same problem.  Still extremely annoying though.

I tried searching as well and couldn't come up with a hit for someone with the same problem as me. I have also re-installed the lastes AMD driver just in case something was not correctly installed before but it did no good.

Kinda stumped as to what it could be now and what to do...

[Dark Mantis]

I don't know if it will help as it usualy affects the audio not video but it might be worth checking out the latency and see if soemthing is causing the problem.

Download and run dpclatency checker from  http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

The problem is easilly fixed but finding the culprit can be more troublesome. Latency is caused by bad programming generally. There are various rules for how a program should access the core and if it doesn't follow these rules it can result in the core not being released for the next operation and this causes a bottleneck that backs up. The biggest headache from our perspective is that we have to find the rogue program/driver.

The best way to tackle this is to go to Task Manager and then in the Processes section stop all the processes that are not required for Windows to run. If you do this one at a time until you find the one that is causing the trouble. Then depending on what it is as to how you tackle the repair.

If none of that works you would need to go to Device Manager and disable all the devices not needed to run the system. Then you can enable them one at a time and again see which one causes the problem.

Have fun!

[MrKvisler]

Hi All!

I figured out what the problem was! It was the xbox360 controller emulator for my logitech rumblepad 2 that was causing the stutter. I removed it and voila no more stutter. Now I'm going to buy a proper Xbox 360 controller and see if it will work without stutter.

Thanks for all the input and help, as always much appreciated!

This thread can be closed.

- R

[Aussie Allan]

     "Xbox360 controller emulator for the logitech rumblepad 2" .... Now How did I miss that ... I'm seriously having a bad day!

  AA

[Dark Mantis]

Somehow I don't even remember that super piece of kit even being mentioned! Never mind at least the problem is sorted out.