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I've just built my first PC about a month ago. The building process went perfectly to my delight (thank you Linus PC Building POV) however I've had some performance issues since. The only things brought from my previous build are my EVGA 750 GQ 80+ Gold and my 3060 ti. Everything else is completely brand new. Things were working great, except I would get some small stutter in Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 + 2 where it'd stutter for a second and drop 1 fps to 59. I wanted to fix that and tried a youtube videos suggestion of increasing page file system to be the same amount as my RAM and using msconfig to set my CPU Cores. Doing this made everything worse. Tony Hawk was constantly stuttering to unplayable amounts. So I set those settings back to defaults, everything was still messed up. Tried system restore, it was successful (initially) but Chrome wouldn't open, so I restarted the PC and immediately started boot looping to BSOD Critical Process Died. Couldn't repair or load into safe mode. So I reinstalled windows. I was back up and running, but now all of my games and benchmarks intermittently stutter, BAD. Yesterday everything worked perfectly (HZD Benchmark and playtest, perfect. Shadow of Tomb Raider Benchmark, perfect. Tony Hawk, a few small stutters, but smooth 60 fps otherwise.) Today, every single thing stutters. Even Superposition has hitching. I've tried everything I can think of. My CPU temps never rise above 40 C gaming, my GPU usually sits around 64-74 max usage. Vids of hitching linked below. Please, any help is appreciate. (Crash Bandicoot is the smoothest, but you can see the FPS still waivers randomly.) I'm also on the latest Nvidia drivers. System CPU i5 12600K Motherboard Asus Prime Z690-A RAM 32GB DDR5 4800 Mhz GPU Zotac 3060 ti LHR Twin Edge 8GB Case NZXT H5 Flow RGB Storage Western Digital WDS500G2B0A 500GB SATA SSD, 4tb WD Blue HDD PSU EVGA 750 GQ 80+ Gold Display(s) 22" 75Hz Sceptre, 20" 75Hz Sceptre Cooling NZXT T120 CPU cooler, 2x 140mm NZXT RGB Front Case Fans, 120mm NZXT GPU Case Fan, 120mm NZXT Exhaust Fan Keyboard Coolermaster SK650 Mouse Razer DeathAdder Essential Sound Cyber Acoustics 2.1 Operating System Windows 10 Pro

Hello all! So this is an issue that I have had for ages. A quick replication of the issues is simple, I open Task Manager. Here is what happens PC Runs perfectly fine I open Task Manager Mouse barely moves, lags around screen, task Manager takes a bit to open, then everything seems to be fine. During this time my PC Fan RGB also lags out (I have them set where its just a color change that circles around the fan - iCue) and stops when everything else gets back up to speed. I have the same issue here and there when opening random programs, or sometimes just web pages that have ad videos on them, so I feel like it has to be a GPU/Driver issue, but I have done every form of DDU and even reinstalled all essentials to a whole new SSD to see if it was a bad SSD or sector maybe. Here is the thing. I have had this issue through a complete PC rebuild, and Windows (11) re-install. I have tried everything my techie brain can think of. I run a ton of programs for work, but no one else in my job has the same issues. Only parts that have transferred from one PC build to another is what is listed below - Consistent Parts (minus hard drives) Corsair 720 Air Carbide Case (I love this thing) Elgato 4k60Mk2 (PCi) Corsair H150i RGB (Has been a trooper) General external USB stuffs. Original PC specs that had this issue 10900k 2080Ti ASUS Strix Mobo (dont know exact model but it was whatever was normal for the 10th gen) 2 860 EVOs 2 970 EVOs Elgato 4k60Mk2 (PCi) 32GB Corsair Veng 3000Mhz RAM ANCIENT 1000W Corsair RM PSU (this sploded and killed almost every part in the build - probably 8 years old or so when it died) Current build (more detailed because I actually have it saved) Seasonic PRIME 1300 Platinum (1300W PSU) CPU: Intel Core i7-12700K GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090 FTW3 SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500GB SSD: Samsung 860 Evo 1TB SSD: Samsung 860 Evo 1TB SSD: Samsung 860 Evo 1TB SSD: Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB SSD: Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB RAM: Corsair K32GX5M2B5200C40 2x16GB MBD: Asus ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI I am at a dead loss on whats causing this. I have been in tech since I was a teen, and I am the only person I have ever known to have this very specific issue. PS - Temps are fine on everything always. Case has amazing airflow, and filters, I only need to dust it out maybe once a year and even then its barely anything. Fans are clean, no noises, and average temps even while gaming are sub 70, sub 40 when idle

PC Specs picture posted down below So i Just got this pc build from Nzxt’s BLD service. Used it for 3 days so far. Screen keeps flickering(goes black for 1 second then right back on + sometimes itll flicker 2 times in about 10 seconds) and entire pc keeps freezing(never running any game, only other apps and on desktop) And when it freezes, i can always move the cursor but nothing will ever respond or load even after waiting 5-10min. (Ps. Im extremely new to this, only know basics from watching a lot of LTT, Bitwit, Jayz2Cents, and GamersNexus)

I'm playing Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. I'm getting an average of 90-140 FPS on Ultra settings. However after playing for a while the game starts stuttering like crazy, something that i would explain as "Frame Lag". If i restart the mission, the stuttering will go away but then it will come back after several minutes of gameplay. Here is the footage of what's happening: (pay special attention to 3:30) GPU: RTX 2070 Super CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 RAM: 16GB G-Sync Compatible: ON

So pretty much every time any game performs an autosave (or in games that allow it, manual saving) I'm getting mini-freezes for like a few seconds. There's also hitching whenever entering new areas or doing stuff like discovering rooms or tagging collectibles. This is happening across games - currently I'm playing Hitman 2 and Batman: Arkham Origins and both games suffer these issues. Never had this problem before and I played both titles previously on this machine without an issue. My rig meets all requirements (see specs below), I'm running the latest Nvidia drivers, Windows is up to date. No disk errors or fragmentation on the HDD the games are on. I've even reinstalled the drivers manually as people say the GeForce Experience app messes things up. What's going on?

Hi, I recently got an HP Victus 16 laptop, and unfortunately it is only compatible with the steaming pile of crap that is Windows 11. My main issue right now is that it is constantly freezing. Navigating around file explorer regularly hitches for 5 seconds. In Pro Tools, every minute or two it freezes. In games it will freeze for 5 seconds every now and then. It doesn't hard crash, but makes it incredibly slow to try and get any work done. Microsoft and HP support have been useless, because of course they just blame the other for the issue, or say it's the specific programs I'm using. HP Victus i7 12700H, 16GB 4800MHz, 1TB SSD, 3060, Smasung PM9A1 gen 4 SSD. Power optimization: Performance Battery saver: off Any suggestions on what might be causing this would be incredible. 23390466_2022-08-1819-44-44_Trim.mp4

A while ago, I experienced what I would call performance "hitching" or "hanging" when doing simple tasks on my computer, like browsing the web or streaming YouTube or playing a game. I decided to leave my performance up on my task manager to see what could be the cause and I found that during these hitches, my HDD usage would max with no data transfer happening (no read or write). So I decided to purchase a new hard drive, thinking the current one was just getting old (about 3 years). I made a post about this a while ago here. However, after purchasing a new hard drive, I noticed the same hitching problems still coming up. What else could be causing the problem? The processor or the motherboard? Current System Intel 540s Series 480GB SATA III SSD WD 2TB 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD GIGABYTE Radeon R9 380x MSI 990FXA AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2x4GB) EVGA SuperNOVA 750W Old HDD/SSD Seagate Desktop HDD 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 6Gb/s Kingston SSD V300 120GB SATA III

Around the 9900k's release I built a new PC centered around it. For a few months everything was cheery, but -- if I remember correctly -- after a windows update my PC began to experience stuttering symptoms. Eventually it became quite apparent that this stuttering only came when I moved my mouse. It's been a while since then, and I have truly tried everything. I have tried so many things that I lost track of most of what I have tried, and at this point I'm willing to absolutely start from the top. It stutters most everywhere. Dragging windows around the desktop it'll have half-second hangs that are very frequent. Games like Mount & Blade: Warband and Osu! in particular are hit very, very hard. Both of run butter-smooth -- until I touch my mouse, in which both go to shit. They don't just stutter in a graphical sense, if that means anything -- literally the game freezes for half a second. The AI stop in place. The arrows stop flying around. Simulation pauses in singleplayer. Note that both are OpenGL, and that DirectX games (Arma 3, which I play almost daily) actually run without stuttering as far as I remember. I know for a fact it's the actual mouse, or whatever it does on the way to be rendered -- because I have written an autohotkey script to jiggle my cursor vigorously, and both on the desktop and in these OpenGL games it's buttery smooth with the script but janky as hell with the cursor. I have tried four different mice. Lower Hz (polling rate) ones/settings tend to stutter less, but the stuttering is still present. Note that with my main mouse (old DeathAdder), lowering the polling rate in software (both in the latest Synapse in an old-ass Razer Deathadder Driver program I found) -- actually doesn't do much. It still stutters. It's not super consistent, though. Some days it's not as noticeable. Other days involve notable hangups (1s+). Safe Mode (ie: network-only with no drivers) fixes it as far as I can tell, but it's hard to actually test because I can't use LatencyMon or Osu! in that mode, and I also can't have my monitor at anything higher than 63Hz. Also, interestingly enough, monitoring software -- so far HWiNFO64 and Task Manager -- both seem to 'incite' the stuttering when present. Does my GPU not like being polled? Is that maybe a completely separate issue? Is my whole PC fucked? We'll see! I have also attempted to go one-by-one through the (many) programs that I usually keep up in the background, including Discord, ShareX, Corsair iCUE, Samsung Magician, Voicemeeter Potato & Macrobuttons, Google Drive Sync, Geforce Experience, and Pushbullet. Each closed program seems to lessen the stuttering bit by bit, actually, and if I literally close every single program on my computer, background and foreground, the stutter is almost imperceptible. But: First, it's still present and measureable with Latencymon to be >1ms and worse than it should be, and Second, I have a 9900k and 32GB of RAM. I want to be able to multi-task without my desktop windows hitching every few seconds. EDIT: Also, duh. My monitor setup. Dual as listed below. I use the integrated graphics on the secondary. For some reason Windows says they're both using 8-bits of color depth? See here. EDIT2: Osu is also measuring stutters when I press keyboard keys -- even when it's paused! EDIT3: If I hold down the keys it's even worse!! Any and all advice is appreciated -- even telling me to 'try again' with things I did before. I don't mind. I'm pretty desperate to get this fixed before I consider ripping apart and piecemeal-returning a notably expensive computer build. My Specs: CPU - 9900k @ stock, with great temps, who is getting sipped at (<15%) during this entire debacle. COOLER - H100i PRO GPU - GTX 970, who I have tried to ensure isn't using the 0.5GB of 'BAD' VRAM RAM - Ripjaws V 32GB DDR4, which checks out on memtest and is indeed using the correct XMP profile PSU - Seasonic FOCUS Plus 650W Platinum Modular MOBO - Z390 Taichi LGA 1151 OS - Windows 10 64-bit 1803 (17134.829), or so says winver M.2 NVMe (C:) - Samsung 970 EVO 500GB SSD 1 - Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD 2 - Samsung 840 EVO 250GB Keyboard - WASD V2 Mouse - Razer DeathAdder 3.5G Wired, RZ01-0015 Monitor 1 - ASUS VG248QE 24" 1080p 16:9 144Hz, occasionally 120Hz if I use LightBoost, runs on GTX 970 Monitor 2 - Philips 19b4qcb5/27 1280x1024 60Hz In Summary: - Desktop window dragging, OpenGL games, many other things have micro and macro-freezes whenever I move the mouse. - When I move the cursor with a script alone, the stuttering is not present. - It does not actually seem tied to DPI as far as I can tell. - Monitoring software makes it freeze up even more. - The keyboard causes it to stutter, too? Or so Osu!'s profiling says. - If it's really stuttering, occasionally desktop windows outright minimize/maximize themselves at random. Possible Culprits: - USB drivers - Corrupted default windows mouse drivers - Something fucky from Windows Update - My old GTX 970 GPU - My new 9900K ,_ , - Just having too many programs running, man. - One of my SSDs, or something SATA-related in the MOBO? My entire system stutters way more when Steam is downloading a game at 5.0MB/s. Culprits I Have Ruled Out: - Mousepad, since I have tested varying surfaces. - Individual mouse, since I have tested varying mice with varying DPI/quality. - USB port, since I have tried both front and back USB ports. Things I Have Tried (If it has a *, that means I may try it again): - Reinstalling Windows, first a 'refresh', and then from scratch. - Reinstalling my Graphics Drivers, including a 'clean' re-install using external program(s).* - Literally flashing a new BIOS on my motherboard, twice, like a desperate idiot. - Some less-nuclear options like trying other mice, surfaces, updating Windows, refraining from updating Windows, etc.* - Going one-by-one through my tray programs and closing them, then trying to see if any create an issue.* - Reducing my Windows DPI from Custom Scaling (160%) to 150%, then even 100%, to little effect.* - Tweaking BIOS settings to prevent CPU lockup and turning HPET off, didn't affect much.* - Also turning off HPET in the OS, didn't change anything.* - Windows SFC /scannow and also that other command that repairs SFC, they found nothing to fix.* - Performance profiling my SSDs, they were fine.* - Safe Mode, which might fix it(?). - Using only the GTX 970, which I remember long ago as not fixing it. - Using only the Intel HD Graphics on the i9, which I vaguely remember maybe helping ...?* - Tweaking settings in the NViDiA control panel. Things I Have Used to Test With: - MemTestx86, since I have had memory problems with a prior build and am paranoid of them. Everything checked out. - LatencyMon, which reports 1.5ms+ latency from dxgkrnl.sys, ntoskrnl.exe, and nvlddmkm.sys. - Frametime Analysis Built-in with Osu! 'Cutting Edge' Build, wherein moving my mouse introduces measurable stutters and framedrops. - Task Manager, wherein Corsair iCue is using a smidge more CPU than expected (1% constantly). - Resource Monitor, nothing fucky as far as I can tell. - BenQ Mouse-Rate-Checker (Google it), it said my mouse polling rate was 0Hz-120Hz, which seems low. Speccy is attached below. In conclusion -- whale_speccy_june_2019.txt

Hi people. (this may be a long read) I'm new to all this pc stuff so bare with. Iv got an issue which has haunted me for months now and is really grinding me down. I ended up buying 5 pcs all pretty much the same just with 1 different part each time, and each time Iv had micro stuttering without fps dropping. Iv tried everything possible for someone new to pc gaming eg clean install, g sync on and off, all that stuff but the issue still persists. Iv even had an electrician come over to look at the electrics in the house to see if that has anything to do with it. I thought it may have been the ethernet cable so I went to wifi but still the same, i also tried a gtx 1080 ti, and an rtx 2080 ti and the issue is the same. I use bfv, far cry 5, far cry new dawn, and gta v to test for the stuttering but it does appear in pretty much all the games iv tried. I'm using a surge protection extension lead as I don't have enough outlets if that may be a cause. But even when there's no gpu in the pc there's still a faint whining sound. And if there are basic things to try then iv probably already tried it as that's all i can find on google lol The main issue that started this was that I started to get coil whine in the game and then the game would freeze for a second whilst the audio was still going, BUT i wouldn't drop a single frame. And when the game froze for a second the coil whine stopped for that second then came back when the game started again. (this is still the main issue btw). Also when the rooms quiet enough and I'm just browsing the internet or doing anything but gaming, when i move the mouse the pc has a very faint electrical buzz sound. My current specs are: i7 9700k 4.9ghz Windows 10 64 bit 4TB HHD 1TB SSD 1TB M.2 SSD 32gb RAM 850w psu RTX 2080 ti H150i Pro Maximus XI Code (custom build prebuild) Please if someone could help I would be VERY grateful

I've had this PC of mine for quite a while now, and I've been wondering if the stutter I experience in certain games is normal or not.The stutters are very small (really just a split second), barely noticable, but noticable. Their frequency varies game by game, in The Witcher 3, they occur every 20-30 minutes or sometimes when fighting multiple enemies. In Burnout Paradise, they appear every 10 minutes. In BioShock infinite, they only happen at certain locations (although I think these are common in Unreal Engine games). Once in a while they occur in Rise of the Tomb Raider too. There are some more games where this occasional stutter is present, but in all other games (e.g. GTA 5, Project CARS, old games) there is no stutter whatsoever. During gaming, the hardware usage is fine (usage isn't constanty 100% on anything, it's about how it is in the benchmarks). When a stutter happens, the frame time obviously jumps up for a moment and then gets back to normal.My Specs:• Intel Core i7-4790 3.6 GHz• NVidia GTX 1060 6 GB• 2×8 GB HyperX FURY RAM sticks, 1866 MHz, DDR3• 1 TB 7200 rpm HDD and 500 GB SSD (most games are installed on the SSD)• 450 watt Corsair PSU• Windows 10 64-bitI don't use any antiviruses and all my drivers are up to date.Is this a normal occurence on all systems or is something off with mine?

Just curious if anyone here has played black ops 4 and had a hitching issue that happens a few times a game, I get 90-120 fps steady on 3 screens and it runs very smooth except these strange little hitches. It almost always happens 99% of the time just as an enemy comes around the corner I go to shoot and it freezes for a second and I either jump to the death scene or just about dead, sometimes I still get the kill but not usually. The other 1% is just running along and I get a freeze for like 5 seconds which usually happens maybe once in 5-10 games it's very rare. But otherwise the gameplay is perfect and it never happens in single player, so what I wonder is what causes this and how do I fix it? If no one has ever had this and has no clue how to fix it then owell I will live with it or go to activision support. It is not that big of a deal for me and is more just of a curiosity.

For about the past month i haven't been able to play any online games because they all have been hitching uncontrollably, at first i thought my pc was overheating but then i noticed i could still push my hardware in single player games without hitching. My network configuration hasn't changed recently so my guess is that the isp is the culprit. whenever i'm in a lobby with my friends my ping hovers between 400 and 600, the only online game i can play is civ because i can deal with hitching in that game but i cant play tf2, dota, gmod, left for dead, planetside, cs go, battlefield, or anything else that's not single player. has anyone had similar problems? how can i fix my ping? check this out, im getting random spikes in my ping, this is where the hitches come from:

IMG_2979.mp4 BattlefieldTM_V_2021-08-11_15-45-21 (1).mp4 Hello everyone, Unfortunately, I am extremely frustrated with the state of my computer now, and it's the catalyst for making me give up gaming because I just can't enjoy it anymore. My computer suffers from too many issues during gaming, in every single game I have played imaginable, and believe it or not, I installed every game one by one, out of hundreds of games in my library to see which one stutters, and every single 3D game has the same exact issue. Some games are less prominent than the other but every game is unplayable. It's made me depressed over the fact that a new release comes out, and I'm dying to play it but when I buy it, it's unplayable, games like Red Dead Redemption 2, All AC games, Witcher Franchise, GTA Franchise, Battlefield, you name it. I wish I could play them all but I can't identify the issue at all. I'll try to give as much details as possible because I really really want to fix this since I am passionate about gaming and Esports in general but never was able to practice for my Esports comps or just have fun over games because of these stupid issues. So to put into detail, whenever I am playing a game, and I am stood still, I can't notice any Framerate issues, my FPS is exactly what it should be for my rig, I am getting the FPS I wanted, but whenever I start to move my camera or move in general, FPS dips really low, or sometimes the screen hitches without any FPS impact but it's super visible and frustrating rendering the game unplayable, and if I tried to live with it, I can't, because it just simply wouldn't be as fun as I see it in videos. It feels a lot more prominent in DirectX12 games, it's a lot worse where it happens more frequently and makes my Framerate suffer. For example playing Battlefield 5, I deploy in a game and my game freezes for a few seconds and teleports me into the map, and my FPS is at around 20, and a lot of warnings come on screen (basically every warning such as ping errors, packet loss etc). Moving just makes my game freeze for a few seconds every millisecond and drop my fps from 120 down to 5-20. Some games like Hitman 3, I get a solid 75FPS (capped), because when I uncap the fps the stuttering is basically the same as Battlefield 5, capping it makes it a little better but it's still unplayable, moving the camera just adds stuttering and drops my fps down to 50 and goes back up every few seconds. I don't know what else to describe. You can probably imagine it happening, for every game. I've looked over the internet and most of my daily routine is looking for fixes, nothing that I have seen over the web fixes, and rarely addresses my issues so forums are my last resort, and this is the final forum I'm posting in because I keep getting the same delusional people telling me to "Turn on/off Vsync", "Set this and that in Nvidia Settings" "Turn off this option" "Reset drivers" etc etc, you name it. Yes, I have tried it all, but nothing works at all. Some things may make things less prominent but it doesn't get rid of the issue. I've tried to mess around with graphics settings, the settings have no effect on the issues I'm describing, lowering anything just gives me more FPS. Resetting Drivers and trying to test different Driver versions from newest ones, to WHQL drivers doesn't have an effect, background apps only affect my FPS, different windows power settings, disabling certain settings in CMD don't have an effect either. I've reset windows numerous times, used different versions of windows, to no avail. I've tried overclocking, returned some parts such as my GPU, CPU and Ram, tested different Ram combinations, tried different Ram Timings and BIOS settings (XMP is on). I've tried underclocking. I've tried to move games to my SSD as well. The only thing motivating me is to build a new computer and sell my current one and that might fix everything. One thing I have noticed in some games is, when running benchmarks, my Frame Time spikes a lot, and it spikes more depending on the game I am playing and stress on my computer, so I assume from all the info I gathered that it could be my frame times but I have no clue how to fix it. Also, I use my computer for productivity for college, and there isn't any issues in that, but I bought a 21:9 ultrawide for working and it has G-Sync, but G-Sync doesn't work in any game because of very annoying white/black screen flickering, which I assume is also due to stuttering. Very Frustratingly also, is that I tried to run numerous benchmarks, such as user benchmark and others, but my computer is actually performing "Way above expectations" in every single aspect and is usually at the 70th-90th percentile. I will give as much information about my specifications as possible. GPU- Gigabyte Windforce RTX2060 6GB stock (Runs around 30c idle to 70c max while under load) CPU- Ryzen 5 2600 at 3.8GHZ. Runs at 25c to 50c RAM- Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB 3200MHZ with XMP set at 3200mhz and timings set to 16 18 18 36 75 PSU- Corsair CX450. A lot of people say this is the culprit but I don't have issues and it can handle my rig, I never had any shutdowns or anything at all, I've been using it for the past year ever since I built my computer Motherboard- Asus Prime B450MA I have a Samsung 970 Evo Plus with windows and some long loading games, a 250GB SSD for MFS2020 and a 1TB HDD for other games, there is no clear difference in FPS, Stuttering or FPS Drops when installed on either, the only major difference of course is the loading times. Some extra information, my CPU doesn't seem to be bottlenecking, It also depends on the game but usage is usually average at 60%. GPU is sometimes at 60% up to 99% depending on the game. Ram amount is not the issue nor background apps, I checked ram usage and in the most demanding games such as Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, it's usually at 60/70% usage Thank you if you wish to give me some advice, I am passionate about gaming but such an issue ruins the experience and you know how it is, I don't really want to buy a new computer, especially with all the things going on now, and I don't want to spend money, especially when my money has different priorities. I'll try to reset windows again and start from scratch, check which games stutter and if someone or you give me advice, I'll try to follow it the best I can, even if it means diving deep into CMD, BIOS, whatever, as long as there is a good fix. Have a nice day! Please check attached video(s). Apologies about the Low Quality and recording using my phone however you can see every single issue, from G-Sync flickering to Lag Spikes and mouse lag. Recording it in-game would've made it look better than it actually was. I have also attached a video from a while back in-game of awful mouse-lag and an instance of the "lag spikes" and "low FPS" that performs better depending on drivers and the settings.