The Real Secret of Smoothness

[donger]

Funny because i used to have exact the opposite situation. I have had ~120 fps on iGPU and it felt like shit and after getting a proper GPU i think it was 3080 then it was all fixed(even with 120 fps cap)

[jeffeh12133]

i admire your effort to keep searching for issues. we'll get through this one day. i think one day all electrical issues will be solved, someone will figure this out. it's way too widespread and too many people are starting to catch onto this issue.

[zENNy]

i admire your effort to keep searching for issues. we'll get through this one day. i think one day all electrical issues will be solved, someone will figure this out. it's way too widespread and too many people are starting to catch onto this issue.

I don’t know if it’s really an electrical issue anymore, but the solution honestly feels impossible. Even if I go and buy a brand new PC tomorrow, I’ll probably only get one smooth day of gameplay, and then the problem will come back again. I already know that will happen. But if this were truly an electrical problem, wouldn’t there also be issues with things like phones, TVs, or even refrigerators?

[MK92]

It depends of what kind of electric problems you have, I do have problems with phone chargers (slow charging, and charger getting very hot) and weird problems with TV as well, but i'm not sure if my TV problems are 100% caused by electricity because I havent tried another one. And no other devices are that sensitive to voltage drops, sags, ripple, noisy neutrals, EM/RF interference etc. etc., as PCs and monitors, so thats why everything else might appear normal even with shitty electricity.

Ground loop / noisy neutrals are the most probable cause for all this, and if there is also dirty electricity coming from the grid it just amplifies everything.

[Yagami]

I recently moved to a new house, to a completely new home in another city. My PC remains the same. It seems I will have to buy a completely new PC from scratch, because the current one is infected. I even changed the monitor as well, but the problem persists. Whatever is causing this, the damage is permanent.

[rnk0]

Have you tried Linux?
I'm a CS2 player with 9800x3D and RTX 5090.
I get about 20% better 1% lows on Linux (Cachyos) in CS2 compared to Windows.
I overall get a lot less micro-stuttering or random lag-spikes than in Windows.

It might just be Windows guys. A lot of your explanations don't make much sense. 600 Fps should never feel like 75. But if it's super choppy (which is something I experienced, especially under Windows 11 in certain games with G-Sync)...that's another story. 1% lows are very bad in that case.

[astroasis]

I recently moved to a new house, to a completely new home in another city. My PC remains the same. It seems I will have to buy a completely new PC from scratch, because the current one is infected. I even changed the monitor as well, but the problem persists. Whatever is causing this, the damage is permanent.

I tried these commands in powershell from the emi board 'Set-NetOffloadGlobalSetting -ReceiveSegmentCoalescing Disabled
Set-NetOffloadGlobalSetting -PacketCoalescingFilter Disabled' and my pc went back to normal, but it may do the thing where it goes back to being desynced. Whatever we have going on is some microelectric thing that maybe we dont even have knowledge on - why would changing network settings effect my gpu for example

[Espionage724]

Whatever we have going on is some microelectric thing that maybe we dont even have knowledge on - why would changing network settings effect my gpu for example

More stress on PCI with network + GPU + USB/etc likely going through IOMMU and generic/non-tuned resource handling (IRQs among HT/SMT cores + etc)

First start with that would be disabling IOMMU and any CPU virtualization to rule that potential out :p

[playa]

I found the OG "cs is not smooth" thread from 2009 and with 200 posts. People have been going at it ever since cs 1.6 https://web.archive.org/web/20170520223 ... 1721&pp=15

[MK92]

The PC cannot get "permanently infected" by bad electricity, so if you still have the same problems in the new apartment where electricity is okay, than your hardware is faulty and it has nothing to do with electricity.

Before trying a PC at new apartment, simply reset the CMOS battery, and spam turn on button many times when the PSU is switched off, so any leftover electricity will be gone and the capacitors would fully empty...even better solution is to not turn on the PC for at least 24 hours after doing this and before trying it at new house.

Bad electricity can REDUCE the lifespan of your components, but it WON'T permanently damage it...if your PC behaves the same in the new house with good electricity, then you have problems with something else.

Regarding the network - how hard is it to test that? Simply unplug ethernet cable from PC, turn off the modem from wall socket or power strip, wait for 20-30 mins so everything stablisies, and then try the smoothness of the PC, you can easily see on desktop if you have 60hz feeling, choppiness or floaty mouse....and disable network adapter in windows as well.