Game seems like its stuttering when playing.

Hi,

When playing final fantasy it feels like the game is stuttering. I have tried all different settings and it appears the same. I don't have any problems in other games I can play battlefield 4 on ultra running at 50-60 fps and other games like new COD on ultra at 60fps.

Can any one advise what this maybe please?

Spec:
Asus Z87-K
i7 4770K
Asus HD7870-DC2
8gb of corsair ram (can't remember the bloomin speed)


Cheers
Joe

lol i have a very similar issue and ive had over 100 people look at my thread and not post. i found if i do a clean install every time the issue crops up of my graphics drivers it solves the problem for 2/3 days and then its back. im glad that i got the game for free and im still on the free month sub as atm the game is unplayable going from 670 fps down to 0 every 5/10 seconds for a split second

I think it's an AMD issue. didn't have it when I had a GeForce. But, the GeForce was awful and kept crashing my system.

i have a geforce system so if we have the same issue then it's not just an AMD thing

I had the same problem and my system is way more powerful then it needs to be for this game and my connection is great as well but was getting the same problem. I did however pretty much fix it by disabling the Nagel Algorithm on my system and it seemed to stop the stuttering/rubber banding.

Gares, you did "netsh int tcp set global congestionprovider=ctcp"?

Else, since someone mentioned AMD and nVidia, I was thinking it was a DPC latency issue (it comes to mind because I just finished getting rid of this issue on someone's PC... yep it was a AMD CPU + nVidia GPU... and the only one of twenty identical units to get this problem.).

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I had the same problem and my system is way more powerful then it needs to be for this game and my connection is great as well but was getting the same problem. I did however pretty much fix it by disabling the Nagel Algorithm on my system and it seemed to stop the stuttering/rubber banding.

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Thanks for all the replies. Glad im not the only one was getting worried it was my system for a minute! How did you go about doing this please Gares?

Thanks alot
Joe

Take warning this is for windows 7 and I believe 8 is exactly the same

Full article can be found here

http://mobile.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to...-in-windows-7/




Before we go on with this How-To, a quick word of warning: Disabling the Nagle algorithm requires modifying the Windows registry, which can become fairly techy fairly quickly. Also, please be advised that the algorithm does serve a purpose, so that deactivating it might have a noticeable impact on your regular bandwidth. However, turning it back on by reversing the steps explained below is possible at any time, of course.

Deactivating the Nagle-Algorithm

First, open up your registry by pressing the Windows-Button to the bottom left of your screen and search for "regedit.exe". Once inside the Registry Editor, track the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces

In this key (folder), you will likely see multiple NIC interfaces disguised in the form of a cryptic combination of letters and numbers. The easiest way to identify which of these NIC-IDs corresponds to your active internet connection is to note down your IP-address and search for it in each of them. You can quickly do the former by summoning the command prompt (Press Windows-Button + R, type "cmd", click OK) and entering "ipconfig". Typically, your IP-address is going to be displayed as the "IPv4-Address". Next, go through the NIC-IDs in the Registry and search for any entries with the same IP-Address on the right side (try "IPAddress" or "DhcpIPAddress").

Once you have found your respective adapter, create two new DWORD entries within it by right-clicking on an empty spot > New > "DWORD (32-Bit) Value". Name the fist entry "TcpAckFrequency" and the second one "TCPNoDelay" (both are case-sensitive). Double-click each of them and set their values to 1. The first entry will be responsible for sending off packets immediately, while the second one disables the Nagle-Algorithm.

As a last step, close the Registry Editor and restart your PC for the changes to take effect.

My system started doing this after upgrading my video card and moving to a higher level of the ATI Catalyst drivers, and eventually the game started crashing. It got REALLY bad after moving to Win8 (my PC playtime was still in XP until Christmas). After much testing, I discovered it was because my RAM timings were a bit too aggressive---even though it was using the SPD settings. After manually going in and adjusting them to slow the memory down just a hair, it smoothed out. YMMV of course, but it is something you could try if you are savvy with your BIOS configuration. If anything is overclocked (including if you have a special edition graphics card), may want to try undoing the overclock or at least scaling it back. You may be able to test it with something like Furmark so you don't have to keep logging into the game and all (the jitter happened when I ran Furmark in Windowed mode, making it much easier to find the sweet spot).

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Originally Posted by Gares

Take warning this is for windows 7 and I believe 8 is exactly the same

Full article can be found here

http://mobile.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to...-in-windows-7/




Before we go on with this How-To, a quick word of warning: Disabling the Nagle algorithm requires modifying the Windows registry, which can become fairly techy fairly quickly. Also, please be advised that the algorithm does serve a purpose, so that deactivating it might have a noticeable impact on your regular bandwidth. However, turning it back on by reversing the steps explained below is possible at any time, of course.

Deactivating the Nagle-Algorithm

First, open up your registry by pressing the Windows-Button to the bottom left of your screen and search for "regedit.exe". Once inside the Registry Editor, track the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces

In this key (folder), you will likely see multiple NIC interfaces disguised in the form of a cryptic combination of letters and numbers. The easiest way to identify which of these NIC-IDs corresponds to your active internet connection is to note down your IP-address and search for it in each of them. You can quickly do the former by summoning the command prompt (Press Windows-Button + R, type "cmd", click OK) and entering "ipconfig". Typically, your IP-address is going to be displayed as the "IPv4-Address". Next, go through the NIC-IDs in the Registry and search for any entries with the same IP-Address on the right side (try "IPAddress" or "DhcpIPAddress").

Once you have found your respective adapter, create two new DWORD entries within it by right-clicking on an empty spot > New > "DWORD (32-Bit) Value". Name the fist entry "TcpAckFrequency" and the second one "TCPNoDelay" (both are case-sensitive). Double-click each of them and set their values to 1. The first entry will be responsible for sending off packets immediately, while the second one disables the Nagle-Algorithm.

As a last step, close the Registry Editor and restart your PC for the changes to take effect.

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Hey,

I tried this and it seems to of helped abit actually. Its still there slightly but no longer am I thinking WTF is going on every few minutes lol. Maybe worth a try as with all Registry stuff just be careful and patient and follow the above instructions and you'll be fine :)

Ill keep you all updated!

Hi,

After playing it a bit longer unfortunately its still the same :(

Cheers
Joe

I had a similar problem too, the only way I could fix it was to disable framerate limiting in game, and disable vsync in the nVidia control panel. It basically seems to have to do with having to powerful of a system and it trying to throttle itself. However this was on a 120hz monitor. On a 60hz, you're likely to get bad screen tearing in lieu of the stuttering. :\