I Spent Half a Year Chasing a Microstutter.. That was Caused by Windows

I just wanted to let anyone who has been experiencing a microstutter what worked for me. I was playing ATM10 and Better Minecraft modpacks. I had just purchased a new computer and noticed drastic FPS dips (into the 40s with shaders) and a pretty consistent microstutter. It wasn't game-breaking, but let me tell you, it drove me insane.

I tried EVERYTHING. Capping my FPS to various amounts, toggling V-sync, messing with NVIDIA settings, changing the Java argements, adjusting the RAM from 6-16 GB and everything in between, messing with the graphics settings in the game, toggling shaders off and on, you name it, I did it. I spent hours crawling Reddit and every other forum and website God ever made.

I had toyed with the idea of installing Linux and finally pulled the trigger by dual-booting Windows and Cachyos. As soon as I downloaded ATLauncher and got into the game, the difference was like night and day. Way better FPS out of the box even with shaders and no microstutter!

It was gone, guys. Windows made my computer run like shit for reasons unknown and also fixed a bunch of other minor issues I was having like my computer acting weird when waking up from hibernation and my trackpad occasionally taking a dump.

Oh, before I forget, I'm running a Core Ultra 9 275hx with a 5070 and 32GB of RAM. I bought my PC before the ram-pocalypse to play modded Minecraft. Since Minecraft is so CPU dependent, I knew it was capable of running Minecraft smoothly, I just didn't realize Windows was taking such a toll on the poor thing.

Anyways, that's my experience for anyone who's having issues with this. Cheers!

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