How to know why an animation stutters?

Question

I have a few fairly simple animations (moving text around, moving ellipses etc.) and running in full screen (1920x1080 minus the task bar) the WPF Performance Suite reports a go

Answer 1

I had a similar issue where it was stuttering, nothing really major it just looked like little stutters here and there while I ran the program. On a hunch, I shut down Google Chrome while it was running and that fixed it,the scrolling became completely smooth...

So my advice would be if you have any internet browsers open check to see if closing them out fixes the problem.