EVGA Precision causes hitching

[cannondale06]

from time to time I would notice a little stutter or hitch when walking in basically any game I play. well today I had been testing vram usage in many games and finally figured out it that it is EVGA Precision that causes this. all those times before when I had hitching, I never realized it was only occurring while Precision was on at the time.

I can alt tab out of the game and turn Precision on and then get the little hitches or turn it off and they disappear so there is no doubt it is the cause. it doesn't appear to be using more than 1% of the cpu and even in games where cpu usage is not even very high it happens. I know this has occurred for probably 2 years or so and I wonder why it has never been fixed.

 

[shansoft]

Are you using in-game display? if you are, that thing will cause hitching for me..

 

[cannondale06]

I don't think I have ever used that.

 

[tosgamer]

I guess you can try MSI Afterburner and see if that solves it.

 

[atrance5]

Use MSI Afterburner.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

hmm maybe that explains my weird hitching problems.. never bothered to think that it was evga precision.. always thought it was due to windows 7 keeping aero enabled due to me having dual displays.. guess ill test that out later tonight..

 

[Godmachine]

I haven't noticed any "hitching" problems using it. You guys might be experiencing something else entirely.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

I haven't noticed any "hitching" problems using it. You guys might be experiencing something else entirely.

dont know but im definitely going to try and see if it makes a difference.. since i leave the graph open on my left monitor that could be causing my problem just never thought of it being the issue..

 

[Mega666]

Increase the hardware polling period.

 

[cannondale06]

I haven't noticed any "hitching" problems using it. You guys might be experiencing something else entirely.

it IS Precision causing it. if I turn it on I get hitching and if I turn it off I don't. I even installed it on another pc and tested off and on with the same results. if you don't notice it then you aren't paying attention or it may not be very noticeable in the games you are playing. it is related to the polling as some people have mentioned.

 

[Godmachine]

it IS Precision causing it. if I turn it on I get hitching and if I turn it off I don't. I even installed it on another pc and tested off and on with the same results. if you don't notice it then you aren't paying attention or it may not be very noticeable in the games you are playing. it is related to the polling as some people have mentioned.

I was watching for it while playing BFBC2 last night and I didn't notice any difference with it on or off. But if increasing polling works for ya than there ya go.

 

[cannondale06]

I was watching for it while playing BFBC2 last night and I didn't notice any difference with it on or off. But if increasing polling works for ya than there ya go.

well I will just leave it off since I don't need it on unless I am just testing something out. I was just surprised that it would affect games in the first place. Crysis hitches noticeably but not as bad as The Saboteur which is very sluggish when it hitches. many people would probably never even think to check Precision if they were getting hitching.

 

[Godmachine]

well I will just leave it off since I don't need it on unless I am just testing something out. I was just surprised that it would affect games in the first place. Crysis hitches noticeably but not as bad as The Saboteur which is very sluggish when it hitches. many people would probably never even think to check Precision if they were getting hitching.

With Crysis I'm not surprised that it was hitching , that game was dropped on its ass by Crytek by ditching future patching in favor of half ass updating Crysis : Warhead. Its something I'll keep in mind though if I notice any future hitching , thanks for the info.