Stuttering

[EliteExpression]

Hello, I'm new to this forum.

 

Basically I've been having some weird issues. When playing a game my PC freezes for a second or 2 and then just recovers like nothing happened. The frame freezes, the sound repeats itself over and over and it doesn't recognize any input made during that time. I was wondering what could cause this? This happens during most games, Banished and Overwatch being among the few I have no issues with. Games like AOE 2 (2013), Medieval II, Total War: Rome II, Borderlands 3. I'm 100% sure it's not my specs not being up to par since I'm running

 

i7-8700k

RTX 2080

16GB RAM

650W PSU

 

I've overclocked my graphics card so I thought that could've been the issue, but when I revert it to factory settings nothing changed. I updated my drivers as well and that seemed to have fixed the problem for AOE 2, until I rebooted my system afterwards.

 

Any suggestions?

[i_build_nanosuits]

games installed on a hard disk drive or SSD?

[EliteExpression]

All my games are on an HDD

[i_build_nanosuits]

5 minutes ago, EliteExpression said:

All my games are on an HDD

old HDD that is maybe not functionning properly? is that a possiblity?

[EliteExpression]

ST2000DM008 is the one I'm currently using. I bought it in June

[EliteExpression]

Oh and btw, if this isn't the right thread for this please refer me to the correct one. As I said I'm new here, but I didn't see any other thread for this at first glance

[BTGbullseye]

Most likely it's that the game is fetching a file from the HDD, and it has to bring the drive out of it's sleep mode to do so. Check your Windows power settings, and change the "turn off hard disk after" setting to 0 minutes.