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Microstuttering on new pc
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By Moonbaser112 2025-06-25 00:22:30
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I recently got a new gaming pc and decided to hook it up to my tv. Before this I was using a laptop and it's screen to play. I also use a fairly new Xbox controller when I play. However playing Ff11 on my new pc and tv is giving me microstuttering. It's not terrible. It's playable. But it doesn't feel smooth like how it did on my laptop. It's not noticeable at first but it's there. It seems to only occur when my character is moving and/or I move the camera. I decided to display an fps chart while moving the camera and the fps stays perfectly fine throughout. Hovers
around 57 and there doesn't seem to be any dips when there are stutters.

My controller works fine playing Ff11 on my laptop and it's a 3 month old Xbox controller.

I am using windower 4 and have
FrameRateDivisor set to 1 (60 fps)
TV is a 32" TCL TV, couple years old
Pc is Alienware Aurora ACT1250
-intel core ultra 7
-geforce RTX 4060 ti
-64 GB DDR5

Things I have tried:
-disabling Bluetooth and using my controller with a wire
-disabling controller in Config and using just mouse and keyboard
-disabling a bunch of HID devices in device manager
-disabling some USB devices in device manager
-making sure drivers, graphics card, and Windows are all up to date
-tinkering with settings in windower and config
-tried other games to see if stuttering was there and it wasn't

Any ideas?

Update: I just played the game on my laptop connected to the tv and had no issues. Funnily enough the HDMI port on the laptop uses the integrated graphics, not dedicated card. And no issues.
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By Genoxd 2025-06-25 11:46:20
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By Asura.Pergatory 2025-06-25 12:36:17
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The only 2 things I've observed to cause stuttering like you described in this game are:

1. Integrated graphics

2. The HID scanning issue

It looks like you're already vaguely aware of both. However, some brief research suggests the Alienware Aurora ACT1250 does, in fact, have integrated graphics on the CPU for some reason. I've never seen this on a desktop before, but Alienware does weird ***.

DgVoodoo is, sadly, probably your best bet for resolving that problem.

As for your laptop not stuttering when plugging in the same monitor, I suspect it's not using integrated graphics like you think it is. In fact most laptops are the opposite, if you plug in an external monitor it forces the system onto the dedicated GPU. In fact my last girlfriend used that trick to avoid having to install dgVoodoo, she would just plug a monitor into her laptop and clone the desktop to it, and the stuttering would vanish. She didn't even use the monitor, just had it off to the side and plugged in so the game would run on dedicated graphics.
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By Moonbaser112 2025-06-25 13:10:21
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".... the Alienware Aurora ACT1250 does, in fact, have integrated graphics on the CPU for some reason...." what in the heck? That's so odd. But regardless I went into the Nvidia control panel settings and made sure the card is being used. But who knows maybe it isn't... I'll do some more digging/tweaking. Also, interesting idea your gf had.
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By Moonbaser112 2025-06-25 13:11:04
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I've heard of this a few times. Time to check it out I guess.
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By Evolan 2025-06-25 14:06:49
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Also make sure you don’t have auto detect for your default game controller