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Chastity · ‎06-11-2011

Microstuttering and laggy playback is an all-too-known issue with any gaming system, and some good people on the net have come up with a possible issue with AMD installs:

AMD installs a service to write to the Event Log called ATIeRecord. If your event logs are huge and/or fragmented, then this service will record while you are gaming, and the recording lag from bad fragmented system files will hammer your performance with lags and stutters.

The fix?

Disable the service. 🙂

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atierecord]
"eRecordEnable"=dword:00000000

Set to "1" by default which enables it.

Clearing out the event logs is the only known way to defrag the log files, and NVIDIA users can experiment with this as well.

When a system is fresh, the log files are small and so record quickly, however, over time, they bloat and indexing these files are slow, and high priority according to the OS. This is why your games slow down because of this.

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Retired · ‎06-13-2011

Go I'm guessing just right click, click modify, and set the Value Data to '0'?

Chastity · ‎06-13-2011

yessir

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Retired · ‎06-19-2011

Thanks Chastity. Quick question: Do I need to also set the erecordenablepopups to "0". Also is there a way to clear the log files that have been stored up to this point, or does setting the value to 0 clear all log files that have been stored up to this point etc?? Thanks again.. BTW I visit your G73 resource page almost daily 🙂

FlyingFalcon · ‎06-25-2011

Does this work for nvidia too? I've started noticing minor stutters while playing mafia 2, cod mw2 and nfs got pursuit 10.

Chastity · ‎06-25-2011

No, since you don't have the ATI app installed. 🙂

For microstutters, you can try updating your HDD firmwares, and also try removing the battery pack, and run on AC only. Let me know how it goes.

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FlyingFalcon · ‎06-25-2011

Wogay. Thank you Chastity.

Retired · ‎07-04-2011

i want to keep the service but just clear the log files
is this possible and how?

Chastity · ‎07-18-2011

The log files still exist. You can go into Event Manager and clear the logs there.

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Retired · ‎08-10-2011

Performance logs were fixed with the Official 11.7 Catalyst drivers.

Performance Tip for AMD GPU users for stutter/lag