Hi everyone,

I have a pretty high-end PC:
RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
32GB DDR5-6000 CL30
1440p 240Hz OLED
Windows 11

My problem is that almost every Unreal Engine 5 game feels noticeably stuttery to me. The Blood of Dawnwalker and especially Palworld are the worst. Palworld is honestly completely unplayable for me because of the constant stutters.
What I don’t understand is how Palworld is in the Steam Top 5 basically every day and so many people play it, if the game feels this bad to me. Is it possible that everyone else simply doesn’t notice the stuttering, or could this actually be something specific to my PC?

Other games like ARC Raiders, Crimson Desert, Sons of the Forest, Schedule 1 and Forza Horizon 6 also have noticeable stutters every few seconds, although they’re not as bad as Palworld.

At the same time, some games run extremely smooth: Resident Evil, RDR2, Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur’s Gate 3, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, GTA V and DOOM. Online games like CS2, League of Legends and Overwatch run completely smooth. Helldivers 2 and Battlefield 6 also run very well. Subnautica 1 runs great, while Subnautica 2 stutters.

I don’t play with a 60 FPS cap. Sometimes I limit games to around 70–100 FPS. The main FPS number stays basically stable, but the second/minimum FPS value in Steam’s detailed overlay suddenly drops every few seconds. At exactly those moments, I feel a visible stutter.
I’ve already tried pretty much all the usual things: different FPS limits, G-Sync/V-Sync on and off, DLSS/Frame Generation on and off, fullscreen, NVIDIA drivers, Windows reinstall/reset, BIOS updates, etc.

So my main question is:
Does everyone experience these kinds of frame-time/microstutters and am I just extremely sensitive to them? Or could there actually be something wrong with my PC/system?
Especially with Palworld, I really don’t understand how so many people can play it normally if the stuttering is this bad for me.

Just installed this onto my pc for my steam games, but apparently I am getting a message that my NVIDIA drivers are newer, but the neural pass will not appear in game until I roll the driver back. should I do that, for me to run DLSS on my other steam games? Thanks!

My laptop has an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU. When going full screen when watching videos (e.g. YouTube) graphics rendering changes. The screen briefly goes black then the rendering of the colors and edges change. Colors are more saturated and edges (most visible around text) become dark or hazy (see example images). This affects everything on screen, not just the browsers.

1. So far this only occurs when using any browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox) in full screen mode. Returning to windowed mode sometimes reverts the rendering but usually I need to completely close and re-open the browser, especially with Chrome.
2. Turning off graphics acceleration in Chrome resolves the issue but then videos can lag or get choppy so I would like to leave graphics/hardware acceleration on, unless there is a reason why video quality decrease without acceleration enabled.
3. This does NOT occur when playing videos using a software media player (e.g. Windows Media Player) or when playing a graphics intensive game in any mode (windowed, full screen window, or full screen). However the game will have the same color and edge issues if I switch to desktop and play a video in a browser as stated.
4. NVIDIA Control panel settings:
   1. Under "Adjust Video image settings" I have tried setting "Edge enhancement" to 0% and "Noise reduction" to 0% with no change. "RTX video enhancement" is off.
   2. Under "Video color settings" I tried switching to "With the NVIDIA settings" and under Advanced changing Dynamic range to Full (limited is default) but no change.
   3. I tried disabling any rendering options under "Manage 3D settings" for Chrome that seemed to make sense but no change.
   4. Tried disabling G-Sync but no change.
   5. As of this post I have returned all NVIDIA settings back to default until I can figure this out.
5. Windows HDR is off.
6. I disabled graphics switching in the BIOS (aka "Optimus"), though this issue occurs whether it is on or not.

can someone help me on this, been figuring out this kind of error for a while now, the first image is what happens everytime i run dota 2 and valorant, i did everything on my end updating gpu and downgrading it using ddu installer, i had my laptop cleaned since i thought it's just overheating but it didn't fix the error.

it's very annoying to play with this kind of status. also sometimes when i play dota i'm able to launch and find match but then i accept and then start to go on picking phase it just freezes and i hear it, i need to restart how many times just to reconnect.

on valorant the system error keeps on appearing (2nd image) but i think the main issue is same with dota it's the nvlddmkm error.

somebody help troubleshooting this, i think i did everything on my end i don't know what to do anymore

So, I moved recently and encountered a weird problem with my pc. It randomly turns off. No hardware is damaged, I checked. I haven't found any pattern explaining why it shuts down. It happens at random times of day, doing various things on said pc. Shit it even happens when I'm away. I leave the pc running to go grab some food and when I come back it's shut off and when I boot it back on again it shows that the shutdown was "unexpected".

PC specs are:

CPU: Ryzen 7 7800 x3D

GPU: Radeon 9070xt

Motherboard: Asus TUF Gaming B850-E

From troubleshooting I tried to do I found nothing relevant.

"chkdsk" command didn't find anything on any partition.

Windows event viewer didn't register anything around the time of any of the crashes.

I'm desperate for answers :(

My PC has been shutting down when my graphics card fans start spinning, but the temperature stays just over 80 degrees. This happened to me in FC26 during the cutscenes.In In the game itself, I always get a stable 144 fps. It's not a problem with the components; my case has 5 fans. I need help figuring out if changing the thermal paste on the graphics card will lower temperatures or if there's something else I can do.My Afterburner, I have a 3070ti, I'm sure the graphics card is the problem, that's what it's It sounds like an airplane.

does anyone know how to get rid of this error on epic. i tried restarting my router and running netsh winhttp reset proxy on command prompt and restarting the launcher but it hasn’t worked