Solution for massive FPS drops and sudden stuttering--read this if you have low GPU and CPU usage sometimes!!

[Aluminum Donkey]

Hi guys, just thought I'd share this since it happens from time to time.

 

If you're using a Freesync monitor (like me) and experience sudden framerate drops combined with jittery/stuttery movement, remember to use CRU (Custom Resolution Utility) to lower your minimum Freesync range.

 

Since Nvidia has supported Freesync for quite a while now, lots of people are using Freesync monitors with Nvidia cards--but, it's important to keep in mind that Freesync, by default, works from 48 Hz up to your monitor's maximum refresh rate (75 Hz for me, HP Omen 32".)

 

So, use CRU to reduce your monitor's minimum Freesync/G-Sync range to 25 Hz or so, so that way, when DCS bogs your system hard and the framerate drops below 48 FPS, your monitor doesn't switch out of Freesync range and into "generic" Vsync, which will cause framerates to crash and lots of stuttering.

 

I'm having good luck using the current Nvidia Studio Ready driver (460.89) with my Freesync monitor--but, only after editing/lowering the minimum Freesync rate to 25 Hz from the default 48 Hz, which was set when I installed the driver.

 

Once you've done that everything runs nice and sweet

 

Peace and happy warfare

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Edited December 27, 2020 by Aluminum Donkey