This is something that's been irritating me for a long time, and I want to get it sorted. In just about every modern game, I get a sort of stuttering effect. I'm not entirely sure how to describe it. It doesn't look like lost frames or other FPS drop, it's as if the game is slowing down and speeding up once or twice a second. It's particularly noticeable on camera movement. I've taken a very quick clip from The Division's intro as an example:
Youtube may not be showing the effect off properly. The camera movement seems to stutter, but to me it doesn't look like a framerate drop - look at the NPC moving halfway through that clip; his animation looks like it's playing smoothly despite the camera movement.
It's not limited to The Division, it happens in a lot of games. Fallout 4, Just Cause 3 and Mechwarrior Online have all exhibited this symptom, but Diablo 3, MGS5 and Tribes Ascend haven't. It happened in Windows 7 as well as now in Windows 10, and has persisted through several GPU driver versions.
Can anyone suggest things to try? I'm not particularly good at troubleshooting this sort of stuff.