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Question

All games choppy on 2 different builds

Mar 17, 2018 11:42PM PDT

high fps, games stutter and look like they are running at 15 fps when in fact they are running at 200+fps, capping fps does not help neither does vsync. G sync helps in some games but not all (fps capped 3 below refresh rate) I am at the point of giving up and getting rid of my system. If someone can please help me i would appreciate it very very much. If i use WASD on the keyboard all seems smooth, But if i use the mouse to look around at all it looks terrible and unplayable.
Things i have tried: New mouse, New keyboard, New monitor.
As stated in the subject, This is the second build that has this same issue. The specs for my current build are as follows:
I7 8700k (No oc)
MSI GTX 1080 ti Gaming x trio
16gb (2x8gb) Gskill trident Z RGB
MSI Gaming pro carbon AC
Corsair h100i v2
750w EVGA G3 80+gold
500 gb Samsung 850 EVO
Acer xb241H 144hz gsync
Asus VG248QE 144hz
All of my drivers are up to date, as well as bios.
I have tried disabling fullscreen optimizations in windows.
I have tried windows 8.1 with same results.
Please some one help me Sad

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Clarification Request
Given dual 144Hz displays
Mar 18, 2018 12:43PM PDT

I think it could be choppy since that's pushing the 1080 pretty hard. In short this is about the same or more load than a single UHD 4K at 60Hz.

The thing is about looking around with a mouse this really stresses the memory transfer rate from RAM to video cards.

So two ideas.

1. DO NOT INCREASE MOUSE POLLING RATES. DO NOT INSTALL A MOUSE DRIVER.
2. Let's see a Web Speccy link so I can check a few things. How is at:
https://www.piriform.com/docs/speccy/using-speccy/publishing-a-speccy-profile-to-the-web

3. You write about latest drivers. So tell me how you know. I can't check this in the speccy report. I will check for latest BIOS and if the RAM is in dual channel mode which is required for this to work best.

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Here is the requested info
Mar 18, 2018 5:10PM PDT
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/NMRIzYLv4roD6zWDZHqNaMO

That is my speccy link.
I do know that ram is indeed running in dual channel, I wish i could get a good video to describe what it is i am talking about.
When gaming, i am only gaming on one monitor, the second is just for web browsers, etc.
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Simple nope.
Mar 18, 2018 5:48PM PDT

The second display is still sapping GPU power. And 144Hz is not helping either.

Let me research that Speccy report.

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I understand
Mar 18, 2018 7:56PM PDT

I understand what you are saying. I just tried to play with one monitor and it is no different.

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Answer
Speccy reading. Wow. Another Seagate with errors.
Mar 18, 2018 6:19PM PDT

1. The Seagate drive has a lot of read errors. Remove this drive for now.

2. The Seagate drive has a high value in seek errors too.

Windows can chop as you found out when there are drive read and seek issues. This error really stands out in your report. I do encounter folk that don't believe and many that do. I won't put Seagates into my builds and haven't for years.

3. Razer DeathAdder Elite drivers. There are reports of very hard to track down issues when polling rate is increased as well with such drivers. GO NATIVE. UNTIL YOU FIND OUT WHAT IS GOING ON, NEVER INSTALL KEYBOARD OR MOUSE DRIVERS.

4. CHROME HAS A BOATLOAD OF CONNECTIONS.
5. THE OS HAS A BOATLOAD OF CONNECTIONS.
So when gaming, don't Chrome or find out why Chrome is doing that.
As to the OS. Turn the following:
https://www.howtogeek.com/224981/how-to-stop-windows-10-from-uploading-updates-to-other-pcs-over-the-internet/

6. BIOS is current. Nothing to do here.

7. Power Profile, For now, set all to none.

Pretty clean Speccy but issues there. Remember I do not claim this will fix it. But it often does.

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Dang
Mar 18, 2018 8:30PM PDT

After doing all of these steps, the issue still remains. I am at a loss. When i say 2 builds i mean brand new everything 2 times, and i cant shake this issue. It makes gaming not possible. Nothing i play is enjoyable. At this point my best bet may be to go back to console (it pains me deeply to say this) :/

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Here is a short clip of my issue
Mar 18, 2018 9:21PM PDT
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kQA8KRHsyhoRPcW6sXh9IEYi25sQ6ZE5/view

I managed to get a recording of the exact issue it is i am talking about. I hope it is not to hard to see in the video. The weird thing is that the game feels and seems to be running smoothly it is just when looking around or using the mouse in general, this issue occurs it does not ever go away.
Aside from gaming the mouse performs perfect when web browsing or doing anything besides gaming.