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notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos so it's

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usually a frustrating experience when something begins to stutter you don't

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want to happen while you're trying www post Techquickie when you're shifting

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gears to manual car or worst of all in the middle of a big match and while it

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seems like pc gamers are locked into constant battle with their bank accounts

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to buy the hardware that will give them the highest frame rates possible many

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people still experience stutters and hitching even on high-end systems that

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seemingly should be able to run just about anything without breaking a sweat

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so why does this happen well it turns out the frame rates aren't the only

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factor that will determine how buttery smooth or uh salady choppy your gaming

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experience will be you also need consistent frame times to avoid game

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breaking lag in the form of stuttering think of it this way suppose you're

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driving between atlanta and charlotte a 240 mile trip and you want to get there

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in four hours one way to do it would just be to drive to smooth easy 60 miles

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per hour but if you have a death wish and a lot of money to give to the cops you could

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drive for two hours going one mile an hour and the other two going

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119. assuming you arrived in charlotte alive

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you took the same amount of time to get there either way but the second option

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was probably far less pleasant unless you really love just stomping all the

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pedals in your car so this is what's happening when you get

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inconsistent frame times your graphics card could be spitting out the nice

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smooth 60 frames per second you covet when you check fraps

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but instead of each frame being displayed on your screen for the same amount of time

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some frames might stay on the screen for far longer than they should

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so why do these huge variations happen even on powerful hardware well spikes in

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frame time that cause noticeable stuttering are usually because of high

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latency with some tasks your graphics card is trying to accomplish and i'm not

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just talking about trying to render a scene that suddenly become more

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processor intensive because an explosion just happened or something

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that usually manifests as a drop in frame rate that makes your game look

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less smooth but not as stuttering instead things that can cause actual

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latency include problems with your drivers not being optimized well for a

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certain game your GPU having to suddenly pull a bunch of assets at once from your

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video memory issues with a pci express bus that can

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be caused by poor motherboard design or something like an adapter putting lots

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of data through it or even delays while your gpus talk to each other to attempt

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to sync up properly if you're rocking two or more video cards on that note

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inconsistent frame times are an especially common issue with sli and

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crossfire setups and because poor frame times aren't a direct result of how

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difficult it is for your GPU to crunch numbers and render the frame simply

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turning down your in-game settings may not help in the same way it would if

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you're just trying to get more FPS so then is there a way to fix this

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problem well it's difficult to recommend a universal solution since poor frame

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times are often specific to a certain game on a certain model or brand of

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graphics card but some gamers have have success limiting the frame rate outside

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of their games using either the default settings program or a third party

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utility this can be helpful if your high frame times are being caused by hardware

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bottlenecks like a busy GPU that can't handle all the requests your CPU is

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making but this also means you may have to settle for a less visually appealing

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experience meaning this problem can be a tough nut to crack especially if your nutcracker

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costs 500 and is aggressively overclocked

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so have you ever had to control multiple computers at once but hated dealing with

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the tedious switching between different keyboard and mouse combos well then

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check out synergy 2 it's designed to be easier to use and more seamless than

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synergy one synergy is a mouse and keyboard sharing software it works on

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Windows mac and Linux computers you get features like the ability to share from

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anywhere where you can automatically control any other computer without

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reconfiguring it ssl encryption to protect your keystrokes from attackers

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and dynamic networking which detects the best route automatically based on your

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setup it always runs in the background on all operating systems so you can set it and

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forget it you also get a cloud bridge which allows you to use synergy across

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vpns and tricky home networks and if you get the pro version you get

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access to other cool features like clipboard sharing drag and drop files

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copy paste lock screen sync and lots more so check out synergy 2 today at the

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