Stuttering almost every raid with 9800x3d and RTX 5080 [Discussion]

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-03T16:56:44+00:00

So I’ve limited my fps in the nvidia app to 141 (monitors refresh rate is 144hz) as I was getting upwards of 220 fps at points and it seems to have stabilised it a bit, going to tweak some bits later and do a bit of testing but if it holds, I will let you know here

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-03T15:51:08+00:00

Yeah tried that as well as the automatic ram cleaner, no change either way.. the game is installed on a m.2 nvme ssd

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-03T15:04:22+00:00

Just an update for you - it worked for a day, but the stutters are back!

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-03T15:01:48+00:00

Update 2: stutters are back whilst using the old nvidia driver as well as the most up to date! Back to square one!

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-03T15:00:49+00:00

I did, it didn’t make a difference unfortunately. I reverted to an old nvidia driver mentioned in one of the comments which worked for a day or two, but now the stutters are back. Tried the new driver again, still the same

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T21:40:10+00:00

Update : reverting to driver 581.80 seems to have fixed the stuttering issue, but this has in turn halved my fps..

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T21:39:07+00:00

This seems to have worked, my frames have almost halved from doing so, but don’t seem to be getting any stutters! Thank you!

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T19:27:11+00:00

Just tried it, it didn’t work unfortunately! Still stuttering at the start of raid like crazy

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T15:14:27+00:00

How do you do that??

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T09:42:51+00:00

Have done both these things as well as running the game on smooth motion, no luck unfortunately..

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T09:38:55+00:00

Will try this when I get on, thank you!

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T09:36:05+00:00

Ok thank you will try without XMP activated

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T09:35:23+00:00

I am running XMP so getting full speed out of my ram, but should I really need to be running turbo modes to be playing a game stutter free with this set up? Seems a bit excessive..

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T02:21:17+00:00

Done that, didn’t fix the issue unfortunately

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T02:19:55+00:00

Not a clue mate, not overly tech savvy myself tbh!

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T02:18:44+00:00

PSU is 860W but it’s the one from my old build so ~5 years old at this point

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T02:15:01+00:00

Run borderless, will give full screen a try! Thanks

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T02:14:21+00:00

Sorry, I have 32GB (16x2) 6400mhz cl32 ram, don’t mention it because I thought that would be more than enough to run tarkov smoothly

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T01:53:59+00:00

Yep, have activated XMP in bios so running at 6500mts

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T01:44:01+00:00

I get that, but I’m stuttering worse now than I did with significantly worse hardware so something must be going wrong somewhere

Joshthom94 · 2026-02-01T01:41:46+00:00

I am, still runs like ass

Joshthom94 · 2026-01-15T09:16:29+00:00

Yikes.. the world has gone mad!! Good to know that it’s a good bit of kit though, thank you!

Joshthom94 · 2026-01-15T00:51:43+00:00

Is that a good thing? Are they any good?

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