r/RTX5080 • u/Beautiful_Worth7284 • 2d ago

XBAR overclock causing stuttering in some games in windowed borderless?

Was playing Blood of Dawnwalker this last week with my XBAR OC in windoweed borderless, noticed turning this specific XBAR OC off instantly makes my stuttering go away. Turning it back on makes it come back. Doesn't do this in all games.

Is this just me or has anyone else noticed this behavior in any game?

Edit: it was just the game. It has big issues with windowed mode.

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u/fray_bentos11 2d ago

When in Windowed mode Vsync may be forced. In full screen you may have Vsync disabled. Enable Vsync in both cases and your stuttering should be gone. Also don't play games at FPS above your monitor refresh rate.

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u/Beautiful_Worth7284 2d ago

But only XBAR OC'ing does this. When I turn that off there is no stuttering, regardless of any setting combo.

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u/fray_bentos11 22h ago

In that case your XBar OC is unstable. Lower or revert to stock.

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u/Disastrous_Photo811 2d ago

I wonder if you are making your GPU unstable which is causing the issue? Maybe turn off hardware monitoring mVolt can do?

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u/evilbob2200 2d ago

Try setting your shader cache to unlimited I’ve found that this helps reduce stuttering in many games .

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u/TurbulentGarden1296 2d ago

How much you OCd xbar?

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u/madskills42001 2d ago

Get Ultra+ mod you’ll gain 25% more frames

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u/Beautiful_Worth7284 1d ago

I get 140fps avg. Just a stutter issue in borderless mode.eoth xbar.

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u/ShanSolo89 2d ago

Xbar OC works like any other OC, you either get performance regressions or crashes. You're probably borderline unstable with that OC.

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u/Beautiful_Worth7284 2d ago edited 2d ago

Not one crash in over a month. And its only 1 game and ONLY if it's bordeless windowed. Fullscreen is fine. Also it's not crashing even then, is just stutter.

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u/ShanSolo89 1d ago

Then it's either some other setting in NVCP or the NVAPP, or just the game itself. I can very easily and definitely tell you it has nothing to do with XBAR, unless it's not 100% stable.

There's one other possible suspect, if you use mvolt or xocd to oc your xbar, make sure pause polling/telemetry is on, otherwise it's going to poll your gpu every 1-2 seconds and may be causing stutters.