Weird stuttering in Battlefield 4 with my z97 mark2 - need some help

[McSusa]

I have the Sabertooth Z97 Mark 2 / USB 3.1 mobo.

I was wondering what version of the network adapter driver you guys are using?
And what version of the BIOS are you using?

Motherboard doesn't seem to work well with Battlefield 4. Meaning the game acts laggy, jittery, stuttery.
No it's not the servers because I have played on them for years with an Asus Z77 motherboard, which finally died.

Thanks in advance!

Windows 7 Prof 64 bit, i7-4790, GTX 980, 16 gb of G.Skill Sniper.

[Nate152]

Hello McSusa

Are you sure it's internet lag and not gpu lag? I'm not sure what you're gaming at but if you have the antialiasing cranked up try lowering it or turning it off. Try reinstalling or updating to the latest NVidia driver.

If it's internet lag, try the latest network driver and bios, if you have wireless internet try it hard wired.

Is your internet speed what it should be? How is ping in game?

[McSusa]

I think it is the number of hops to the server, which is 24. Ping in game is only 33.

[Nate152]

The lower the ping the better and ping of 33 is great. Maybe take a look at your 3d settings in the NVidia control panel and enable v-sync?

Please list all your system hardware this might tell us a little more.

[Korth]

BF4 is notorious for making poor use of HyperThreading.

Disabling HT (in BIOS) apparently improves performance in this particular game significantly. It's a very passionately polarized and controversial topic, easy to google yourself into the thick of it.

I don't play BF4 myself but even though it's a surprising and counterintuitive claim it does still seem plausible. The smart thing to do would be to entirely sidestep the arguments and just compare BF4 performance with HT enabled vs BF4 performance with HT disabled - a couple of system restarts between play sessions would take far less time than a ton of (inconclusive) internet searching, reading, videos, etc. Who knows, maybe this will resolve your inexplicable frame stutters?

[McSusa]

Thanks for the input peeps. Hum, I have to try turning off HT.

Update: I believe that HT off does help a little.

I am thinking that my problem might be the network adapter driver. I tried three releases and the problem still exists.
I didn't have any problems with my Sabertooth Z77 mobo, just this Z97 Mark 2. So I might end up trashing it.

[McSusa]

The problem turned out to be the noVidia 359.06 driver release. It's really bad on the cpu. Using 344.11 and all works okay.

[kthejoker20]

Make sure your windows is not in power saving mode, that will throttle the cpue. It should be in performance mode.