need help - still getting micro-freeze @ 1080p

I just upgraded this past week, from a FX-8350 to Ryzen 5 2600. Even got a M.2 SSD for the OS
and the games I play most often (aka Metro Exodus). I replaced the CPU, motherboard and got
some DDR4 3000.

While using the FX I noticed that in certain places in the Exodus game the display would freeze for
maybe .5 sec or less, GPU fps in Afterburner would drop 10-20 frames lower (CPU usage dropped too)
then all was well again for maybe the rest of the playing session (1-2 hours)
Does the same thing with the Ryzen set up as well.

both the FX and the Ryzen system had / have the same GTX 970 card

playing at 1080p @ 60hz

Is it the software, CPU or 970 causing the intermittent freezing?

Are you surpassing the 3gb of fast gpu on your 970?

rhansen5_99 said:

Are you surpassing the 3gb of fast gpu on your 970?

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yes ... oh yea, it's not 4GB is it

thanks

it could be due to ccx switching

if so you eitheh need to upgraded windows 10 to 1909 or run my project mercury and enable " No CCX switching"
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/project_mercury.html

lol the video card is severely vram limited (3.5gb)....I have not used a card with less than 8gb in a few years now. You could answer the question yourself just by running afterburner/rtss while playing and watching the vraam usage constantly max out. I only uses a 1080p display for the moment and i usually average around 5gb in a typical average game. (so of course there is your hitching cause the vram is maxed out)