How To Fix Stutter In Games - Frame Rate, Frame Time & RTSS

So do I use rtss framerate limiter with freesync on ??

If I limit the frame count in rtss to 100fps and set the frame count in the game to 99fps, and I get a stable 99fps and consistent frame time, can I improve the one frame lag that rtss brings?

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Use Frametime instead of Framelimit. Make sure your game is in 60hz or 120 hz refresh rate for perfect fps.

This is one of the best and most informative video of my life . thanks Chris

But how are games supposed to be smooth if one has a for example 144hz monitor but below 144fps??

My games were at a very silky 60fps until I installed Hyper-V for BlueStacks. Ever since I installed Hyper-V, the same games I've been playing in 60/30fps are so much choppier. And some games just don't get to 60fps anymore at the same settings..

I looked up the causes of bad frame timing, and Hyper V was listed among the causes. I've long since uninstalled Hyper-V, but of course it won't be a simple fix. IDK how to fix it

I use a ASUS Vivobook laptop with the Ryzen 5 5500U. 1tb Samsung 980 m.2 SSD. 16gb dual channel RAM.

Last night, I was playing an FPS for like 4h straight. I was getting a solid 60 at 1080p the whole time. Until I went to the next game and all of a sudden it's 40-55-fps and constantly fluctuating. IDK why it did that. I even rebooted my PC and it did solve the issue, but for a single match in game, then went back to lag. Even lowering it to 720p did nothing. IDK if this is relevant tho

Should I mess with the frame time limiter itself?

Actually the higher the frame rate is, the less screen tearing you will see. Having 300 fps on 144hz monitor will show significantly less screen tearing, compared to 144fps cap on 144hz.
It's scientific and you can find the explanation on Google. It allows more frames to cross over and blend edge to edge visually when your fps is skyrocketing. And you will perceive better gaming experience and movement, and way better frame to frame in ms.

quick question. My monitor is amd freesync and GPU is nvidia 1060. I searched and found out I could use Freesync, or I could enable freesync and use g sync from nvidia's control panel. So the question is which one do I use in that case. Screen is originally Freesync. Gpu Nvidia.

I am using a 144hz monitor. I disabled G-sync on both nvidia software and monitor to allow my monitor running a fixed 144fps rate even my game setting for fps is set to 60.
Do I still need RTSS because I did not notice any differences.

All these times trying to figure out why my game feel so clunky, its because i enabled input lag from radeon software. Just today, i tested it without anti lag and it feel smooth and no input lag(+ increase fps) when i shoot compared before. Omg. Shouldve seen this video soon. Thank you! (Sorry for bad english)

Now matter what settings I choose when I play at 60hz and I still get. 30fps drops. It’s driving me nuts. And when I turn off Vsync I get screen tearing. I’ve changed settings in nvidia control panel. I don’t know what’s going on.

turns out i have to turn on the free sync setting, so yeah... i realized how many braincells i have today

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I have really bad problems in warframe. I limited my fps to 120 with rtss and my framtime is really stabel (straight line) but sometimes it’s just spikes really hard and then it’s for slinger time stable

Doesn’t matter what I do when I upgrade my ram my CPU and GPU I always run into an issue on PC gaming. I got quite high spec pc but yet still get stutters. So I tried this, and it works. Every now and then I will get a stutter but it ain’t consistent.

very useful. tnx

Im kinda curious to figure out what pc part would be most important to upgrade if most of your games run 60 fps almost all the time but has the frame time issue or as i Call it microstutter
I would imagine the gpu but does faster ram say going from 2400-3200 also make a difference or does that have nothing to do with it ?

Man, consoles are so much simpler when you just want to game and not waste your time optimizing stuff (and I have limited time). I absolutely love the PC, but recently I’ve got a new GPU and PSU and my frametimes went nuts and nothing works to alleviate the issue. I’m close to giving up on PC gaming.

Really great video, thank you!

how to show fps and frametime on RTSS?

3 years after finding this video I still haven't solved the frametime problem, it doesn't matter where I set my fps limiting to, I still get frametime spikes every minute or more, its been the bain of my gaming existence.....

No matter which limiter I use, I have even stronger jerks due to the limiting. What can be the reason for this?

Doesnt turning on a frame limiter by default usually introduce some input lag? Ive experienced this in a few games already and so ive sworn off fps caps because ive yet to see it improve my game or stream stuff. Thinking about redoing all my testing now that free sync g sync and graphics in general have changed.

what if i dont want to use rtss? is there another method? thanks

Any suggestions on the following, I get a smooth frame time and 4ms response but in most games I get random spikes that can be up to 100ms, which ultimately causes a stutter! It’s been a year of rebuilding my Pc, applying every fix under the sun but no luck…any suggestions would be awesome. Worth noting I’m using a 240hz monitor, 32gb ram,
I7 11700k, rtx3070. Playing Fortnite all low, this rig should smash 240fps at Epic

I have a 120hz monitor and within my advanced display settings there is an option for 119.88hz or 120hz. Which one should i choose?

this is ridiculous . I have a1080 gpu and this problem has only showed up since the new 30 range of gpu has hit the market is this a ploy to force us onto rtx card's . I play warthunder and have always played at Max graphics .... now I have to lower my graphics to stop stuttering . in my opinion they have made the game frame hugery by adding shit that that eats frame . such as sand storms and shit loads of grass and bushes and clouds . even if you have them tuned right down . it doesn't matter they are still there . adding more and more crap like this kills frame nomater what card you have

FINALLYYYY.. A SOLUTION!!!!!!!! I had some freaking spikes and with RTSS I had seen that my frametime/framerate at that time from almost steady as it was at all times, it spiked on full. THANK YOU MAN!!!!!! <3

My screen and graphic refresh rates are 1:1... and i have horrible screen tearing


what i don't understand is why when i have the fps perfectly capped with rtts at 60 (what my monitor is running at), i still get horrible tearing, even having them perfectly stable, because i lowered the game graphics to the minimum and if i turned off rtss the game would run at 190 fps.

The game I'm testing is war thunder, obviously vsync disabled with ulq enabled, all off, the funny thing is that the tearing almost completely disappears at 170-190 fps (x3 what my monitor shows), it doesn't make sense, shouldn't I have a fluid image without tearing at 60 fps (16.6 ms) perfect in rtss, since the images that the gpu sends to the monitor would be synchronizing well...?

strange..

Thank you for saving my eyeballs. I’ve tried everything to get Apex running smooth and this ultimately fixed all my issues. I really appreciate you going into such great detail.

Thank you so much! - Using RTSS to limit the framerate was the key to get rid of these frametime spikes ! 🥳

Man, I miss you man. Come back and make videos please :(

This was so helpful and informative. Thank you!

Sorry, when I lower refresh rate from 144hz to 60hz of my 27'' Asus freesync monitor, and turn on vsync, games are way smoother than 144hz and 60fps rtss cap, do you know why, life-likely smooth, and it should be also in the second case? I have Nvidia graphic card, 1050 ti.

l have stutter with mod, not withgame

How about the framerate limiter they’ve added to Nvidia control panel a while back? Now I use that instead of RTSS since RTSS loves to crash different games if the game doesn’t like things hooking into it.

The thing is I get high fps even when doing flicks but randomly my game freezes for no reason

should i desable vsync and in game cap in order to turn on frame limiter in ravatuner?

Fh5 crashes when i limit fps in riva tuner. Please help

sometimes simple things can make huge difference. thx mate

Thank you very much. Greatly explained.

Did not expect to see Warframe in this video. Nice lmao

You made my day, I was always wondering why my experience isn't smooth, even with a G sync monitor. The information from this video are game changing.

Can we lock our frametimes ????

perfect times frames will make the game run perfectly smooth, but the thing is if you have a biffy graphic card that can run more than 60 fps like 80 or higher you will not notice any stutters or micro stutters because the frame times are very low that the human brain could not knowledge even if it fluctuates from 1 to 3 or even 5ms,you will not notice any difference unless it spikes very high like from 9ms to a 20 or 30, then yeah you will notice it, but it normal cases you will not notice any difference, unless you play at 60 and lower

Man, it is a royal pain to uninstall...

Does this work for Tekken 7?