Periodic stutters

[K7Syndrome]

Hi, I'm playing apex legends and my PC stutters periodically pretty heavily, once every minute or so I will have around 1 and 2 fps for a few seconds, and then the game just goes back to normal, solid 75fps.

 

Here is my config :

Ryzen 5 3600 + 16Go ddr4 3000Mhz, RTX 2070 super (I upgraded recently and the problem is the same as when I had a 4670k 16Go ddr3 and an r9 290). The game runs off an HDD. Screen : 3440*1440 (I had the problem at 1080p as well). I'm also using an external sound card.

 

The problem occurs every time I play apex, but the stutters seem to last for longer when my PC has been up for a while, or even worse after being in sleep mode, and I have almost no issue after a reboot. I also have the impression that the problem also happens outside games in regular use after I have played for some time. I tried every graphics settings but no matter the quality in which I play, the game runs at 75fps outside of the stutters.

I screenshot the moment where the stutter happens below. You can see that there is a dip in graphics card usage and a small bump in CPU usage.

 

Is this a common issue ? I've had some small micro stutters in the past, but never this bad, it really ruins the gameplay.

[Skiiwee29]

with the system swap, did you fresh install windows?

[K7Syndrome]

21 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

with the system swap, did you fresh install windows?

No, but it happened to me for another instance of windows as well