JohnnyFootball
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I have two gaming PCs, both use Windows 11 IoT LTSC for gaming.
One with a 5070 Ti and a 7800X3D, which is hooked up to my LG C4 in the living room and functions as a living room gaming PC/console. It pretty much runs perfect and has no issues.
My desktop PC is a 4090 with a 9800X3D. It has 3 monitors, an AOC 24 inch on HDMI (this is significant), an Alienware 32 QD-OLED on Display Port and an ultrawide Acer 34" QD-OLED on Display Port. 3 monitors: two on DP and one on HDMI.
When gaming, I make sure I disable all monitors I am not using, so my AOC is always disabled and I will game on either the Alienware or Acer, depending on the mood I am in.
With this setup, games like God of War 2018 and Batman Arkham Knight had a very nasty microstutter, many others had a few here and there, but many also ran fine. I searched religiously, tried every BIOS/Windows tweak from various videos and nothing would get that microstutter to go away....until I left the AOC monitor enabled for one of my gaming sessions and then, God of War ran as smooth as butter. No microstutter. Arkham Knight is just badly optimized, but it was stuttering far less. It would seem that whenever you disable an HDMI monitor in the nvidia control panel or windows display settings, somehow that causes a microstutter. THE MONITORS were never turned off or unplugged. That info might be significant or not.
As of right now, I have all my monitors on DP and I can enable/disable them at will with no issues. Why was I running a monitor on HDMI and not all on DP to begin with....I had read that having all DP ports occupied can lead to problems, but TMK that has been fixed and so far I have had no issues. As for why I was getting microstutters with my HDMI monitor disabled, I am guessing that the HDMI port is in a constant state of searching for a monitor in some games...I dunno.
Keep in mind none of these microstutter issues were happening on my living room PC with lesser specs, so this issue had been driving me crazy.
I thought I would share my findings and see if this might help someone else.
I find it important to share stuff like this, as I have found solutions to problems from random posters who tried something that would never have occured to me.
For example, I use an Xbox controller with the official Microsoft dongle and I was constantly getting disconnect issues. Turns out that it's quite common when the dongle is hooked up to a USB 3.0 (or greater port), so I connected it to a USB 2.0 port and the issue went away. Never seen that mentioned anywhere as a solution except on here when it was casually mentioned to me.
One with a 5070 Ti and a 7800X3D, which is hooked up to my LG C4 in the living room and functions as a living room gaming PC/console. It pretty much runs perfect and has no issues.
My desktop PC is a 4090 with a 9800X3D. It has 3 monitors, an AOC 24 inch on HDMI (this is significant), an Alienware 32 QD-OLED on Display Port and an ultrawide Acer 34" QD-OLED on Display Port. 3 monitors: two on DP and one on HDMI.
When gaming, I make sure I disable all monitors I am not using, so my AOC is always disabled and I will game on either the Alienware or Acer, depending on the mood I am in.
With this setup, games like God of War 2018 and Batman Arkham Knight had a very nasty microstutter, many others had a few here and there, but many also ran fine. I searched religiously, tried every BIOS/Windows tweak from various videos and nothing would get that microstutter to go away....until I left the AOC monitor enabled for one of my gaming sessions and then, God of War ran as smooth as butter. No microstutter. Arkham Knight is just badly optimized, but it was stuttering far less. It would seem that whenever you disable an HDMI monitor in the nvidia control panel or windows display settings, somehow that causes a microstutter. THE MONITORS were never turned off or unplugged. That info might be significant or not.
As of right now, I have all my monitors on DP and I can enable/disable them at will with no issues. Why was I running a monitor on HDMI and not all on DP to begin with....I had read that having all DP ports occupied can lead to problems, but TMK that has been fixed and so far I have had no issues. As for why I was getting microstutters with my HDMI monitor disabled, I am guessing that the HDMI port is in a constant state of searching for a monitor in some games...I dunno.
Keep in mind none of these microstutter issues were happening on my living room PC with lesser specs, so this issue had been driving me crazy.
I thought I would share my findings and see if this might help someone else.
I find it important to share stuff like this, as I have found solutions to problems from random posters who tried something that would never have occured to me.
For example, I use an Xbox controller with the official Microsoft dongle and I was constantly getting disconnect issues. Turns out that it's quite common when the dongle is hooked up to a USB 3.0 (or greater port), so I connected it to a USB 2.0 port and the issue went away. Never seen that mentioned anywhere as a solution except on here when it was casually mentioned to me.
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