- Aug 28, 2012
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I have this odd problem that I have fixed, but have no clue as to why this is happening. So on my gfs machine(specs at bottom) I have three drives (2 240 gb ssd's and a 500 gb hdd)I had steam installed on her hdd along with cs go. When playing any game type or map the game would be flying along at 150-300 fps and would have random bouts of stutter. The game would pause for about a half of a second and the frame rate ticker would go extremely low, the sound would appear to pause or loop with it, but then resume. It would do this every 20 or so seconds seemingly at random. I tried verifying game cache, updating drivers(video, sound drivers, motherboard chip set) I tried swapping out keyboards and mice, as well as some console commands, but nothing seemed to help. I even tried changing the power cable from the power supply to the video card.
I decided I would dump the game on the main ssd where windows is installed and see how the game would react. After dumping it on the min drive the stutter completely went away, which I thought was odd, but great since the problem was fixed. Fast forward about a month and we purchase a second ssd that we found on slick deals.
I dumped cs go on this drive along with some other games. After doing so the stutter came back. Again I tried other tweaks to no avail. I ended up dumping it back on the main ssd and again the stutter vanished... I am completely clueless as to why this game exhibits this type of behavior and was hoping some of you here might have any kind of an idea. This is the only game that I have on this comp that does this.
Now I never did do a proper install of steam, the 500 gb hdd was part of an old build and already had steam installed on it. I moved the steam install to ssd number 2 and still had the stutter problem though.
Specs are as follows
Windows 7 N professional (64 bit)
i7 3930 K at stock(temps are fine, the highest i have seen it go is 67 on one core in bf4, but is typically sub 60 in source engine games)
16 gb (8x2 corsair 1333 mhz ddr 3 cas-9, probably should have gone with 16 x 4 cas-8 for quad channel, now memory is expensive..)
geforce 660 (again temps are fine)
evga x79 sli
Kingston 240 gb ssd (main windows install)
PNY 240 gb ssd (new drive)
500 GB hdd (5400 rpm, not sure of make, I have l4d 2 installed on this drive and it works flawlessly)
I decided I would dump the game on the main ssd where windows is installed and see how the game would react. After dumping it on the min drive the stutter completely went away, which I thought was odd, but great since the problem was fixed. Fast forward about a month and we purchase a second ssd that we found on slick deals.
I dumped cs go on this drive along with some other games. After doing so the stutter came back. Again I tried other tweaks to no avail. I ended up dumping it back on the main ssd and again the stutter vanished... I am completely clueless as to why this game exhibits this type of behavior and was hoping some of you here might have any kind of an idea. This is the only game that I have on this comp that does this.
Now I never did do a proper install of steam, the 500 gb hdd was part of an old build and already had steam installed on it. I moved the steam install to ssd number 2 and still had the stutter problem though.
Specs are as follows
Windows 7 N professional (64 bit)
i7 3930 K at stock(temps are fine, the highest i have seen it go is 67 on one core in bf4, but is typically sub 60 in source engine games)
16 gb (8x2 corsair 1333 mhz ddr 3 cas-9, probably should have gone with 16 x 4 cas-8 for quad channel, now memory is expensive..)
geforce 660 (again temps are fine)
evga x79 sli
Kingston 240 gb ssd (main windows install)
PNY 240 gb ssd (new drive)
500 GB hdd (5400 rpm, not sure of make, I have l4d 2 installed on this drive and it works flawlessly)
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