Stuttering/Freezing

[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?

[KarathKasun]

HDD/SSD taking too long to get data causes this.  Can be caused by the drive re-allocating failing sectors or having to try to read the same data more than once.

[EliteExpression]

I scanned it and there are indeed errors on it, I'll repair them and let you know how it turned out

[EliteExpression]

Same thing still, scanned it again afterwards and no more errors. But in-game it keeps stuttering. Is it at all possible it's a bad HDD and how would I go about testing that?

[KarathKasun]

You have to do a full surface scan, which can take a few hours.

[finermeerkat137]

I have the same issue, but I've checked my HDD's and SSD for errors, and none pop up. Do you know what could be causing this?

 

Ryzen 5 2400G

RTX 2060 

16GB DDR4 2400

MSI B350M Gaming Pro

500W PSU

 

[KarathKasun]

12 minutes ago, finermeerkat137 said:

I have the same issue, but I've checked my HDD's and SSD for errors, and none pop up. Do you know what could be causing this?

 

Ryzen 5 2400G

RTX 2060 

16GB DDR4 2400

MSI B350M Gaming Pro

500W PSU

 

Something maxing out your CPU/GPU/Memory bandwidth.  APUs really need faster memory than 2400, jumping up to ~3000 can give up to a 20% performance boost.

 

The other thing could be SATA retransmissions.  I have a few drives that seem th have weak signal output and they can drop/reconnect randomly causing this problem or BSODs if they are the OS drive.  SATA cable quality and routing is more important for these drives.

[finermeerkat137]

31 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Something maxing out your CPU/GPU/Memory bandwidth.  APUs really need faster memory than 2400, jumping up to ~3000 can give up to a 20% performance boost.

 

The other thing could be SATA retransmissions.  I have a few drives that seem th have weak signal output and they can drop/reconnect randomly causing this problem or BSODs if they are the OS drive.  SATA cable quality and routing is more important for these drives.

The iGPU in the 2400G is currently disabled. Could the RAM speed still be affecting the performance, and would overclocking the ram help?

[EliteExpression]

1 hour ago, KarathKasun said:

You have to do a full surface scan, which can take a few hours.

I let chkdsk /r run while I'm off for work, I hope it fixes it

[KarathKasun]

8 hours ago, finermeerkat137 said:

The iGPU in the 2400G is currently disabled. Could the RAM speed still be affecting the performance, and would overclocking the ram help?

Depends on the RAM.  I had a 2133 kit that would do 3200 with enough timing and subtiming fiddling.

 

Ram overclocking generally takes much longer to nail down than CPU overclocking.

[EliteExpression]

21 hours ago, EliteExpression said:

I let chkdsk /r run while I'm off for work, I hope it fixes it

I did some testing and looks like it worked. I finished my AOE II skirmish without stuttering and just launched M2TW and did some testing and that all seemed fine too. Thanks for helping!