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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Friday, January 23, 2015 7:02 AM
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Friday, January 23, 2015 3:30 PM
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That's great news sajin. I was playing last night with the new drivers and had no problems also. I'll continue to test. Now if I can only get shadowplay to work in surround lol
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Friday, January 23, 2015 6:51 PM
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the same stuttering...only seems to be present in WoW though all the other games that was getting it appear to be working great right now
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Friday, January 23, 2015 8:01 PM
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mrblithe 347.25 didn't fixed.
Try a clean install of windows 7 to see if it helps with your problem.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Friday, January 23, 2015 9:43 PM
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Still have stuttering in most of my games with the latest driver. Driver 347.25 did not fix this issue for me. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Windows and I still have the same problem.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Friday, January 23, 2015 9:45 PM
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Evange1ion Still have stuttering in most of my games with the latest driver. Driver 347.25 did not fix this issue for me. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Windows and I still have the same problem.
Which video card do you have?
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Friday, January 23, 2015 9:48 PM
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Evange1ion Still have stuttering in most of my games with the latest driver. Driver 347.25 did not fix this issue for me. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Windows and I still have the same problem.
Which video card do you have?
GTX 780 Ti. I'm still getting stuttering in Dota 2, Ground Zeroes, and Don't Starve, just to name a few. Never really got any stuttering in Battlefield 4 and that game is still running pretty good.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Saturday, January 24, 2015 3:02 AM
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Any suggestions? I've tried it reinstalling the driver with DDU and I still get the same problem. Even tried setting my graphics card to "Performance" under the Nvidia Control Panel and that didn't help at all.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Saturday, January 24, 2015 3:05 AM
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Evange1ion Any suggestions? I've tried it reinstalling the driver with DDU and I still get the same problem. Even tried setting my graphics card to "Performance" under the Nvidia Control Panel.
Let's see some screenshots of your dropout/stutter. Use MSI Afterburner to show the problem.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Saturday, January 24, 2015 6:33 AM
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Here is my screen shot. Left it running for about an hour and a half. Most of the time it seems like its at 99% but it looks like theres some small dips every now and then. Made sure that my PC was not set to shut off after a certain amount of time.  I might try doing it again sometime later. I also noticed some "stutter" today in Battlefield 4 but that could have been a server issue. EDIT: Re-sized the pic.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Saturday, January 24, 2015 7:49 AM
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yeah since people are reporting these solving the stuttering issues im positive what im getting has to be something else causing it since i STILL cannot get benchmarks to show the issue like Evangel1ion's screenshots show have a new ssd on order and some more thermal paste so going to completely disassemble my system and clean it all up and redo all the TIM on everything since that hasnt been done for quite some time now anyway oh and earlier today put my friend's EVGA 680 FTW+ cards in my system and those were showing the same symptoms
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Saturday, January 24, 2015 8:58 AM
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I reinstalled Windows 8.1 and made sure to do a secure erase for my SSD just to be safe. Sometimes the benchmark will go on for about a good 10 to 15 minutes without any drops but then it will start dropping. Some games seem be working fine (Just played about 2 matches of Dota 2 without any issues) but Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, Don't Starve, and Crysis 2 start off pretty well and then they start stuttering occasionally. I've tried overclocking my GTX 780 Ti, changing the settings in games to low, and even disabled any Windows Power Features to make sure that my i7 4790k is running at full speed but I still get the stuttering. I also tried disabling Hyper Threading because someone mentioned that help to alleviate this problem. I tried the sleep/wake thing to see if it fixed the problem and it has not. I'm also playing at 1080p. I noticed that I forgot to mention that earlier.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Saturday, January 24, 2015 11:34 AM
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Evange1ion I reinstalled Windows 8.1 and made sure to do a secure erase for my SSD just to be safe. Sometimes the benchmark will go on for about a good 10 to 15 minutes without any drops but then it will start dropping. Some games seem be working fine (Just played about 2 matches of Dota 2 without any issues) but Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, Don't Starve, and Crysis 2 start off pretty well and then they start stuttering occasionally. I've tried overclocking my GTX 780 Ti, changing the settings in games to low, and even disabled any Windows Power Features to make sure that my i7 4790k is running at full speed but I still get the stuttering. I also tried disabling Hyper Threading because someone mentioned that help to alleviate this problem.
I tried the sleep/wake thing to see if it fixed the problem and it has not. I'm also playing at 1080p. I noticed that I forgot to mention that earlier.
Don't waste your time. I have same problem too. I am trying to fix this for 2 weeks. I couldn't find any proper solution so we've to wait nvidia for fix.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Saturday, January 24, 2015 3:01 PM
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Yep, looks like you guys have to play the waiting game till nvidia fixes it for you guys.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Sunday, January 25, 2015 1:47 PM
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well looks like it was my SSD causing my issues...put in a Samsung 850 EVO 500gb drive and everything is back to being silky smooth...zero signs of stuttering running 347.25 drivers
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Sunday, January 25, 2015 5:50 PM
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dbkams well looks like it was my SSD causing my issues...put in a Samsung 850 EVO 500gb drive and everything is back to being silky smooth...zero signs of stuttering running 347.25 drivers
Which SSD were you running before putting in the 850?
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Sunday, January 25, 2015 7:50 PM
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Yeah, new drivers fixed it.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Sunday, January 25, 2015 9:16 PM
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dbkams well looks like it was my SSD causing my issues...put in a Samsung 850 EVO 500gb drive and everything is back to being silky smooth...zero signs of stuttering running 347.25 drivers
Which SSD were you running before putting in the 850?
an Intel 530 series 240gb
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Monday, January 26, 2015 0:10 PM
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I still get GPU usage drops to 0% in Skyrim on the newest drivers.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Monday, January 26, 2015 1:54 AM
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AndrewMC1994 I still get GPU usage drops to 0% in Skyrim on the newest drivers.
Like Skyrim has ever been a great game to test performance on... Use the Heaven test, like OP stated.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Monday, January 26, 2015 8:53 PM
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AndrewMC1994 I still get GPU usage drops to 0% in Skyrim on the newest drivers.
Like Skyrim has ever been a great game to test performance on... Use the Heaven test, like OP stated.
Ran the test for an hour an a half gpu usage was actually fine, but the power limit has a lot of drops?
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 4:11 AM
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AndrewMC1994 I still get GPU usage drops to 0% in Skyrim on the newest drivers.
Like Skyrim has ever been a great game to test performance on... Use the Heaven test, like OP stated.
Ran the test for an hour an a half gpu usage was actually fine, but the power limit has a lot of drops?

Power limit drops like that are completely normal when running on stock vBIOS.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 11:32 AM
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AndrewMC1994 I still get GPU usage drops to 0% in Skyrim on the newest drivers.
Like Skyrim has ever been a great game to test performance on... Use the Heaven test, like OP stated.
Ran the test for an hour an a half gpu usage was actually fine, but the power limit has a lot of drops?

Power limit drops like that are completely normal when running on stock vBIOS.
Ok thanks, for the help.
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Monday, February 23, 2015 0:40 PM
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did you test your old ssd before getting the new one? I am curious as maybe the Shader cache option had something to do with it? just going out on a limb here but it is not often you get an Intel ssd that was responsible for this issue? dbkams
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dbkams well looks like it was my SSD causing my issues...put in a Samsung 850 EVO 500gb drive and everything is back to being silky smooth...zero signs of stuttering running 347.25 drivers
Which SSD were you running before putting in the 850?
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Monday, February 23, 2015 4:25 AM
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antandbetty did you test your old ssd before getting the new one? I am curious as maybe the Shader cache option had something to do with it? just going out on a limb here but it is not often you get an Intel ssd that was responsible for this issue?
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dbkams well looks like it was my SSD causing my issues...put in a Samsung 850 EVO 500gb drive and everything is back to being silky smooth...zero signs of stuttering running 347.25 drivers
Which SSD were you running before putting in the 850?
an Intel 530 series 240gb
I saw in your other post you have Samsung 840 Pros in Raid0. Have you tried them not in raid? also are you running intel rapid storage driver with raid? if i remember correctly there was a bug with irst causing gpu usage problems
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Monday, February 23, 2015 1:49 PM
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Hi, I never tried them without raid as every bechmark i tried showed amazing results. I did know about the power plan issue with IRST and managed to fix the low gpu usage but still never was able to get rid of the stutter in sli. Only when i removed 1 gpu would it go away..Was your original drive bad? That is 1 thing i never though of was testing without raid0.... nurownd
I saw in your other post you have Samsung 840 Pros in Raid0. Have you tried them not in raid? also are you running intel rapid storage driver with raid? if i remember correctly there was a bug with irst causing gpu usage problems
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Monday, February 23, 2015 9:42 PM
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Is this problem solved with the newest 347.52 drivers?
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Re: 900 Series GPU Usage Dropout Test.
Monday, February 23, 2015 9:47 PM
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atsele Is this problem solved with the newest 347.52 drivers?
Yes.
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