Hello friends and heroes of all shapes and sizes, I need your help. I am stuck troubleshooting a performance issue i've been having within the last couple of weeks.
Generally speaking while playing any game, my pc with freeze for a second before resuming and I cannot for the life of me find an actual resolution. I have downclocked my CPU back to baseline (i7 9700k) at a 4.6ghz all core, load line autos at level 2, voltage auto, 140% power (which is max for the Asus z390-h mobo), asus multicore enhancement off and using intel defaults.
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home (x64) Build 19041.450 (2004/May 2020 Update)
Processor Name: Intel Core i7-9700K
Motherboard Model: ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-H GAMING
Bios v 2808
Ram Gskill Trident Z F4-3200C16-8GTZR
Video Chipset: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070
Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 80+ GOLD, 750W
Temperatures are low across the board. Full load is only 80C. After it happens, ill check the log and see a drop in CPU, GPU and Pwr usage. The clock speed does not move on either gpu or cpu during the pause.
Troubleshooting I have thus tried with no avail:
Increasing Virtual Memory
Increasing voltages for gpu
increasing slight RAM voltages
Downclocking CPU to default
Game Mode off
Updated BIOs
Updated Chipset
Updated GPU Drivers
chkdsk
mem checks
This is not to say that one of those could still be the culprit.
When this stutter happens the audio continues to play unhindered. I noticed it started to happen when I first started Horizon Zero Dawn for pc a couple weeks ago after the GPU Driver update.
What steps should I use to tackle this? What do you guys typically do in these situations when trying to find the problem? What app resources should I use? Im pretty stumped considering this gear Is relatively new.
Please advise, thank youuu!