Skyrim right after a hitch.
Hesitant to put this here in case anyone starts suggesting its these settings, I remind anyone reading this part that I've run it all on base mins at 1024 with all bells and whistles turned off. I'm including it for the sake of understanding.
1920x1080
AA OFF
AF OFF
Program settings NVidia control panel
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: App controlled
Antialiasing - FXAA: Not supported
Antialiasing - Gamma correction: On
Antialiasing Mopde: App controlled
Antialiasing: App controlled
Antialiasing Transparency: Off
CUDA - GPUs: All
Max pre-rendered frames: App controlled
MFAA: On
Multi-Display: Single display
Power Management: Max performance
Shader Cache: On
Texture filtering - Anisotropic: Off
Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias: Allow
Texture filtering - Quality: High Performance
Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization: On
Threaded optimization: On
Triple Buffering: On
Verticle Sync: On
VRPRF: 1
Edit: Disabled Real Time in Windows Defender. Tested, No change in stutter/hitching.
Hesitant to put this here in case anyone starts suggesting its these settings, I remind anyone reading this part that I've run it all on base mins at 1024 with all bells and whistles turned off. I'm including it for the sake of understanding.
1920x1080
AA OFF
AF OFF
Program settings NVidia control panel
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: App controlled
Antialiasing - FXAA: Not supported
Antialiasing - Gamma correction: On
Antialiasing Mopde: App controlled
Antialiasing: App controlled
Antialiasing Transparency: Off
CUDA - GPUs: All
Max pre-rendered frames: App controlled
MFAA: On
Multi-Display: Single display
Power Management: Max performance
Shader Cache: On
Texture filtering - Anisotropic: Off
Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias: Allow
Texture filtering - Quality: High Performance
Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization: On
Threaded optimization: On
Triple Buffering: On
Verticle Sync: On
VRPRF: 1
Edit: Disabled Real Time in Windows Defender. Tested, No change in stutter/hitching.
Skyrim with hitching. If I've learned a little from ROG forums and this thread, its that the screenshot below may indicate the problem is running it off the hdd instead of the sdd. I assure you I've tried it on both drives.
I will transfer my games and reinstall steam on the ssd to run this test there, and post here, to reassure you.
Transferred to SSD.
Screenshot before starting Skyrim.
Stop and go hitching while playing Skyrim on physical drive 0 (SSD) drive D
I will transfer my games and reinstall steam on the ssd to run this test there, and post here, to reassure you.
Transferred to SSD.
Screenshot before starting Skyrim.
Stop and go hitching while playing Skyrim on physical drive 0 (SSD) drive D
hmscott wrote:
Setting a Custom Resolution is a software change, just like everything else you are doing. You could try setting it to 60hz, original stock speed, or 85hz and 100hz to see if there are any improvements. You aren't going to break the display. If it won't sync at 100hz, then drop down to 95hz, etc.
The partition mounting letters aren't always sequential, glad to see yours are, so you are still on the SSD. On mine it was SSD C/F and HDD D/E and G for the Blu-ray drive.
Eventually you will want to back up your recovery partition using Asus Backtracker to a USB 3.0 16GB flash drive, you can use to restore the original out of the box OS install - and then you can delete the Recovery partition of 20GB and the D partition and combine all the free space into your C partition for more breathing room.
Thank you for the partition breathing room suggestion, but would that not move the factory reset option off the laptop?
I'd rather try another driver that allows different refresh rate.
I can't remember which driver gave me the option of 60hz/75hz. Downloading all drivers for testing unmodded Skyrim at various hz settings for hitch issue resolution.
Going backwards, 345.20 has 60 hz, but no other option. Running skyrim with perf mon.
345.20 @60hz before starting up unmodded Skyrim
After hitching alt+tab to perf mon
Northforge, it helps to sort the bottom view by usage Read/Write like the top, and grow the size so you can see the file path/name in full.
Are you seeing glitches with the 345.20? That seems a bit too old... for a 980m to use.
I think the optimal one is supposed to be 344.75 or 344.80.
Also, you probably want to find your tuning suggestions on a Skyrim support site, or google for skyrim 980m settings.
See if setting performance preference to Applications instead of Background processing helps.
Turn off anti-virus and any other background services you can find running that you don't need - that is what you are supposed to be looking for in the Resource Monitor window - not just top disk activity but also top CPU activity, Network Activity, etc.
BTW, every time you do a Custom => Clean Install of the Nvidia driver you need to reset the Nvidia Global 3D settings and set the 3D optimization to those settings again - the Custom=>Clean Install resets them to defaults again.
Are you seeing glitches with the 345.20? That seems a bit too old... for a 980m to use.
I think the optimal one is supposed to be 344.75 or 344.80.
Also, you probably want to find your tuning suggestions on a Skyrim support site, or google for skyrim 980m settings.
See if setting performance preference to Applications instead of Background processing helps.
Turn off anti-virus and any other background services you can find running that you don't need - that is what you are supposed to be looking for in the Resource Monitor window - not just top disk activity but also top CPU activity, Network Activity, etc.
BTW, every time you do a Custom => Clean Install of the Nvidia driver you need to reset the Nvidia Global 3D settings and set the 3D optimization to those settings again - the Custom=>Clean Install resets them to defaults again.
