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Game stutter and low FPS

Stutter is rarely the GPU alone. Shader caches, background tasks, power plans and frame pacing all play a part. Measure first, change one thing at a time, and keep what helps.

• Cap Your Frame Rate Just Below Your Refresh Rate for Lower Latency
• Fix Screen Tearing With VRR and a Frame Cap
• Measure Frame Times and 1% Lows Instead of Average FPS
• Resize and Clear the GPU Shader Cache to Fix Stutter After Updates
• Turn Off Game DVR Background Capture to Stop Stutter
• Reduce Controller Input Lag on a Windows PC
• Stop Game Stutter by Fixing the Windows Page File
• Run Two Monitors at Different Refresh Rates Without Stutter
• Fix Mouse Stutter and Cursor Lag on a Desktop PC
• Record With ASIO for Low-Latency Monitoring
• Cut Emulator Input Lag in RetroArch With Run-Ahead
• Turn Off Mouse Acceleration in Windows 11 for Gaming
• Set Up a High-Polling-Rate Mouse Correctly on Windows 11
• Capture a Stutter with Windows Performance Recorder
• Fix Emulator Audio Drift and Frame Pacing
• Use a CRT Shader in RetroArch Without Blurring the Image
• Set Up Dolphin for GameCube and Wii With Stable Frame Times
• Turn On Windows Sonic and Keep Your Headphones Correct
• Fix a Game That Will Not Launch Because of Anti-Cheat
• Move a Game Library to Another Drive Without Re-downloading
• Open a Port for a LAN Game Server in Windows Firewall
• Overclock Your Monitor Refresh Rate Safely
• Resolve Steam Cloud Save Conflicts
• Use Lossless Scaling to Upscale Old Games
• Run Old PC Games With DXVK on Windows
• Stop Controller Stick Drift With Calibration
• Connect a DualSense or DualShock to PC Games
• Run a Minecraft Server on Windows for Friends
• Save the Last Minute With the OBS Replay Buffer
• Capture Console Gameplay With a USB Capture Card
• Stop Games Launching on the Wrong Monitor
• Set Monitor Brightness and Contrast Without a Colorimeter
• Enable HDR in Games Without Washed-Out Colours
• Get a Laptop Game to Use the Dedicated GPU
• Stream Games Between Two PCs With Steam Remote Play
• Add a Non-Steam Game and Let Steam Input Handle the Controller
• Test and Fix Bufferbloat on Your Home Connection
• Move Steam Games to Another Drive Without Downloading Them Again
• Fix Steam Games Stuck on Downloading at 0 Bytes
• Fix Xbox Game Bar Not Recording Microphone on Windows 11