HD4000 CF/ GTX200 SLI microstutter?

[Caveman787]

Anybody have any tests or any reviews out that test whether either of these video cardd setups have issues with microstutter and how bad?

[annihilat0r]

Both 4000 CF and 4870x2 were tested by Sampsa and he concluded they had little microstutter in games he tested; although I don't remember which games those were.

However, I doubt the new GTX series did anything to reduce microstutter.

[adamsleath]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...a+microstutter
here's one thread.
if you ignore ms it magically disappears.
dont look at the graphs too late
ive never seen microstutter although it seems to annoy some people.

[xMrBunglex]

if you ignore ms it magically disappears.

exactly

[Caveman787]

I've seen sampsa's look into it, but it's only preliminary. Weirdly the 4870 on it's own based on a graph in there stutters worse then the 4870x2

That I can't understand...and it seems from reviews that 4870 CF scaling is crippled since it's barely faster then 4850's in CF. Anybody got any idea's why that is?

The 4870 is 20-25% faster then the 4850 and 5% is supposedly from bandwidth alone so I don't see how it's possible to be only slightly faster.

The gtx260 seems to actually scale well in SLI but I havn't read any mention of stutter or lack there of and the SLI reviews are practically hidden.

Stutter is important if you like online multiplayer specially competitively in fps games.

http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/h...call_of_juarez

Thats the only one I've found so far.

[demowhc]

I have had 2 crossfire systems (2900CF and 4870CF) and have not experienced 'microstutter' on either of them.. but apparently you can notice it when you are under 30fps..
but honestly I cap all my games 120 fps and they all run fluid and smooth.. I play lots of online games like COD4 CSS etc and they all run smooth...

it may also have something to do with the chipset, X38/X48 are great for crossfire

[Kondik]

COD Somehow runs fast on anything in these days , COD , CSS .. not much GPU / CPU power needed here imo.
As Perkam or someone else stated here the ultimate Microstutter game is Crysis

[demowhc]

yeh my point was, if you are getting under 30fps then you may see some slight microstutter.. most games are running in 100's


crysis doesnt micro stutter for me either, but I have it running at around 50-60 fps

[roller11]

yeh my point was, if you are getting under 30fps then you may see some slight microstutter.. most games are running in 100's


crysis doesnt micro stutter for me either, but I have it running at around 50-60 fps

what is microstutter? What does it look loke?

[demowhc]

apparently it can make the game feel like its running at a slower frame rate than is being displayed or can cause jittery movement i guess

[annihilat0r]

^ The former one. Microstuttering is not stuttering. It merely makes the game look slower.

Had to 8800GT's, changed it to one 4870, I get lower FPS; but for example in Crysis it's so much more smooth - you wouldn't believe. I'm dead serious about this.