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Bajablo on 05 May 2013
nnodley said:
Bajablo said:
nnodley said:
CGI-Quality said:

It's similar to framerate drops, except that it's a constant "stutter" of motion than can be observed when moving in-game.

So, dual gpu's can cause microstutter or could it happen on just one gpu too? 

If it happens with a single card (not a dual GPU single card), you are having a bottleneck of some sort.
Microstutter in multi GPU solutions is due to bad handling of distributing workload between the cards.

Ah, thanks.  I plan on getting a second gtx 680 sometime and I didn't know much about microstutter, but I think I shouldn't have to worry about microstutter.

If it does get bad, check for new drivers and/or fixes for the game, or deactivate multi GPU for that game if there is no fixes avalible



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nnodley on 05 May 2013
Bajablo said:
nnodley said:
Bajablo said:
nnodley said:
CGI-Quality said:
 

It's similar to framerate drops, except that it's a constant "stutter" of motion than can be observed when moving in-game.

So, dual gpu's can cause microstutter or could it happen on just one gpu too? 

If it happens with a single card (not a dual GPU single card), you are having a bottleneck of some sort.
Microstutter in multi GPU solutions is due to bad handling of distributing workload between the cards.

Ah, thanks.  I plan on getting a second gtx 680 sometime and I didn't know much about microstutter, but I think I shouldn't have to worry about microstutter.

If it does get bad, check for new drivers and/or fixes for the game, or deactivate multi GPU for that game if there is no fixes avalible

Cool.  Thanks for the info. 



osed125 on 05 May 2013

AMD HD Radeon 7730M (2 GB)
Intel Core i7-3770k
8 GB RAM

Decent for now, although I might upgrade in the next 1 or 2 years. Don't really have the money right now



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nnodley on 05 May 2013
CGI-Quality said:
nnodley said:
CGI-Quality said:
nnodley said:
CGI-Quality said:
Pemalite said:
CGI-Quality said:

From now on, I plan to buy two graphics cards for SLI, rather than picking a dual GPU device. I've heard scaling is better and I know Dual SLI is more efficient than either Tri or Quad SLI (why I never bought a second 690, for instance).


Indeed scaling beyond 2 GPU's has diminishing returns, however if you're sensitive to microstutter it does help greatly.

So, Tri-SLI, for example, would rid microstutter? Because yes, it's annoying :P

What exactly is microstutter? 

It's similar to framerate drops, except that it's a constant "stutter" of motion than can be observed when moving in-game.

So, dual gpu's can cause microstutter or could it happen on just one gpu too? 

It's mainly a dual GPU/SLI thing. Haven't really heard it with single GPUs.

Yeah, that's what bajablo was telling me.  Oh and is there a way to lock the framerate in Metro 2033 because my tv that I have it hooked into when I play is only 60hz(unfortunately) and I don't like screen tearing?  I get a constant 50 fps usually with everything maxed except AA, so it's not a big deal, but once I disable one of the extra effects it goes up to like 75-80fps, so I keep everything enabled to keep it below.



bananaking21 on 05 May 2013

when i bought my PC i considered it a high end PC. then i saw the specs of yours and felt depressed. anyways my specs
core i7 3770k 3.4 GHz
8GB RAM DDR3 1800Mhz
GeForce GTX 660 2GB DDR5
21.5 inch full HD LED monitor (its honestly beautiful)



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Pemalite on 05 May 2013
CGI-Quality said:

So, Tri-SLI, for example, would rid microstutter? Because yes, it's annoying :P


It wouldn't get rid of it, but it will reduce it to a point you should never notice it.

nnodley said:

Yeah, that's what bajablo was telling me.  Oh and is there a way to lock the framerate in Metro 2033 because my tv that I have it hooked into when I play is only 60hz(unfortunately) and I don't like screen tearing?  I get a constant 50 fps usually with everything maxed except AA, so it's not a big deal, but once I disable one of the extra effects it goes up to like 75-80fps, so I keep everything enabled to keep it below.


If you have an nVidia card, you have this amazing feature known as "adaptive v-sync" in the drivers. Enable that to forever fix your screen tearing issues. :)
Unfortunatly, AMD doesn't have a similar feature, much to my dissapointment.

osed125 said:

AMD HD Radeon 7730M (2 GB)
Intel Core i7-3770k
8 GB RAM

Decent for now, although I might upgrade in the next 1 or 2 years. Don't really have the money right now

You sure you got that GPU right? The "M" stands for mobile.




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Stinky on 05 May 2013

AMD X2 5600+, 4GB DDR2, recently added GTX650. Nice stable rig for the past few years only runs Linux, thus plenty of spec for whatever games I play on Linux. I'll probably upgrade when the AMD HSA gear starts shipping post PS4/xbox3.



Stinky on 05 May 2013
Wagram said:
I'm actually surprised how many people don't use Windows 8. Less resources used up was a surefire reason for me to get it. Just takes some getting used too but definitely not as bad as I had heard people raging of.


I recently purchased a new lappy for work and it came with Windows 8. I tried it out with an open mind and deleted it after a couple of days. I tend to be open-minded about such things and left the Vista partition on my prior laptop, it wasn't so bad. But 8 is a travesty.



nnodley on 05 May 2013
Pemalite said:
nnodley said:

Yeah, that's what bajablo was telling me.  Oh and is there a way to lock the framerate in Metro 2033 because my tv that I have it hooked into when I play is only 60hz(unfortunately) and I don't like screen tearing?  I get a constant 50 fps usually with everything maxed except AA, so it's not a big deal, but once I disable one of the extra effects it goes up to like 75-80fps, so I keep everything enabled to keep it below.


If you have an nVidia card, you have this amazing feature known as "adaptive v-sync" in the drivers. Enable that to forever fix your screen tearing issues. :)
Unfortunatly, AMD doesn't have a similar feature, much to my dissapointment.

Sweet!! I will do that.  Will be a nice feature to use.



osed125 on 05 May 2013
Pemalite said:
osed125 said:

AMD HD Radeon 7730M (2 GB)
Intel Core i7-3770k
8 GB RAM

Decent for now, although I might upgrade in the next 1 or 2 years. Don't really have the money right now

You sure you got that GPU right? The "M" stands for mobile.

Lol yeah I confused it with my laptop.

The one on my desktop is an AMD Radeon HD 7750, also 2 GB. 



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