Tygernoot
Hello all,
I have changed a few months ago from an AMD 6870 to an AMD 7950, a new 27" screen and installed an SSD as well. For the rest I have a Core i5 with 8GB RAM.
Ever since changing my setup I have this strange frame skip in rFactor that I cannot seem to remove. Every 5-10 seconds the game seems to hang for a fraction of a second. It's like 2 to 4 frames go missing, which is quite substantial and annoying in racing as you lack visual feedback and steering input during that time. It doesn't make it impossible to race, but I do notice it and it does have a small influence on the driving.
It's not an issue of simple fps drops. With v-sync the FPS stays stable at 61 running at 2560x1440 (60Hz being the screen refresh rate, I assume rF displays 61 by mistake or because it already renders the next frame) and without v-sync it goes anywhere between 60 and 400 depending on the track/amount of cars/etc. But regardless of the framerate, the frame skip keeps happening.
When watching a replay it never occurs at the same moment, just at a random 5-10s interval there's this tiny stutter.
I tried different resolutions, different settings, did a format and reinstall of Windows 7 (64-bit), but nothing seems to help. BIOS is up-to-date, I'm using the latest AMD drivers every time, all device drivers are installed, I have the rFactor versions installed on both the SSD and my previous regular HD, the HD does not appear to interact during racing (like swapping causing the frame skip), the CPU and GPU are not overheating at all despite being overclocked, etc.
The strange thing is that this only happens in rFactor (both 1 and 2). This is not a common issue for all games. Which makes me think there's a bug/flaw/issue in the rFactor engine causing this to happen. Perhaps it's something in the latest AMD cards series (7) or drivers? Perhaps I should have switched back to nVIDIA instead of taking another AMD card, but after my last 2 nVIDIA cards either fried or started showing artifacts I decided to give AMD a go and was quite happy up till now
So now I'm running out of ideas... Does anyone else experience this stutter?
Thanks and best regards,
Tyger.
I have changed a few months ago from an AMD 6870 to an AMD 7950, a new 27" screen and installed an SSD as well. For the rest I have a Core i5 with 8GB RAM.
Ever since changing my setup I have this strange frame skip in rFactor that I cannot seem to remove. Every 5-10 seconds the game seems to hang for a fraction of a second. It's like 2 to 4 frames go missing, which is quite substantial and annoying in racing as you lack visual feedback and steering input during that time. It doesn't make it impossible to race, but I do notice it and it does have a small influence on the driving.
It's not an issue of simple fps drops. With v-sync the FPS stays stable at 61 running at 2560x1440 (60Hz being the screen refresh rate, I assume rF displays 61 by mistake or because it already renders the next frame) and without v-sync it goes anywhere between 60 and 400 depending on the track/amount of cars/etc. But regardless of the framerate, the frame skip keeps happening.
When watching a replay it never occurs at the same moment, just at a random 5-10s interval there's this tiny stutter.
I tried different resolutions, different settings, did a format and reinstall of Windows 7 (64-bit), but nothing seems to help. BIOS is up-to-date, I'm using the latest AMD drivers every time, all device drivers are installed, I have the rFactor versions installed on both the SSD and my previous regular HD, the HD does not appear to interact during racing (like swapping causing the frame skip), the CPU and GPU are not overheating at all despite being overclocked, etc.
The strange thing is that this only happens in rFactor (both 1 and 2). This is not a common issue for all games. Which makes me think there's a bug/flaw/issue in the rFactor engine causing this to happen. Perhaps it's something in the latest AMD cards series (7) or drivers? Perhaps I should have switched back to nVIDIA instead of taking another AMD card, but after my last 2 nVIDIA cards either fried or started showing artifacts I decided to give AMD a go and was quite happy up till now
So now I'm running out of ideas... Does anyone else experience this stutter?
Thanks and best regards,
Tyger.