This guy has it right, unless you guys just feel like changing the term to fit your driver problem, which I guess you do.
Okay. Help me understand:
Basically, some members here are saying that, by
definition, micro-stutter is a symptom caused by multi-GPU configurations, and nothing else.
Why does micro-stuttering have to be exclusive to multi-GPU setups? Because as far as I'm concerned, it's not exclusive at all. Single-GPU micro-stuttering is a very real, hotly-discussed topic on this forum right now, judging by the several other threads we have on it.
The cause may be different, but the effect is exactly the same: Minor, inconsistent frame delivery that happens in intervals of less than a second, and thus not registered by regular FPS measurement. In other words: Micro-stuttering.
Microstutter IMO is simply periodic patterns of differing frame times. When those swing differences are sufficiently large (>5ms) some people perceive the uneven delivery of frames. We call that microstutter.
Seems pretty simple to me. Please tell me: How, by definition, does it have to be caused by multiple GPU's? Micro-stuttering is a symptom of multi-GPUs, but who says a symptom can't have multiple causes?
I'd hope you agree with this logic:
Cause A > Symptom A.
Cause B > Symptom A.
Generally speaking, it's entirely possible that two different actions can have the same reaction; no? A single symptom can have one or more causes.
But according to others, micro-stuttering can
only be caused by multiple GPUs, and nothing else.
So... what is it then? Look at those graphs posted above. What is it? If it's not micro-stuttering, then what is it?
Wait. I already know how you're going to answer:
The driver was the cause. The micro-stutter was the symptom. Multiple GPU's wasn't the cause; in this case, it was something else entirely.
This whole time, you've been arguing "driver problems." You do realize that I already fixed that before this thread even started, don't you? Do you realize that those benchmarks I posted above were well after I fixed the problem with the clocks? Did you even read the whole thread?
Someone explain to me how micro-stuttering is
denotatively exclusive to multi GPUs. I'm still not getting it.
Edit: And I'm sorry for sounding accusatory. I guess it's a bit silly to be arguing this much over semantics.