Stuttery while gaming

Hello, Ever since gaming on steam I've had poor performance, Every few seconds(especially loading new areas) the game will be stuttering including audio ~ The normal 60+ fps will drop down to 0-10, then resume back to 60+. I've switched to ubuntu 13.10 while I try to minimize other potential issues while being on a different distro. Issue seems to be more prevalent in more demanding games

What I do ->
install ubuntu
enable proprietary driver (updates) through software sources
update && upgrade
install steam, play a game such as TF2 or Metro Last light. (or any source game...)



Ubuntu 13.10 x64
8gb ram
FX-8120 @ 4ghz
Radeon 7950 @ 1100,1500


Side note, downloading drivers from ATI website seem to make no difference


Thanks for help

 

also want to mention these games run flawlessly on win7

 

Same box I assume?
Mrk

 

I've been thinking of dumping Pulse Audio and Alsa for OSS4. [1][2]

That may be the ticket, but the path doesn't look rosy.
Is it a plane? A bird? No it's Mrk with a tutorial for us!

[1]http://insanecoding.blogspot.de/2007/05/sorry-state-of-sound-in-linux.html
[2]http://insanecoding.blogspot.de/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html

 

Yes that's right, same box.


Thanks Pedro I'll have a play around