Games stuttering after loading into matches

[Natortator]

Hi, first post here.

 

I'm at a loss quite honestly, I've been trying to troubleshoot this for a few days now and can't seem to remedy the issue.

 

Problem: When loading into games, notably Halo: MCC and Rocket League, I have been experiencing incredibly awful stuttering at the very beginning of the matches (think first 5-10 seconds or so). After this period of time, the games overall run pretty smooth. The thing is, they haven't always played this way for me. I've only noticed it within the last week or so. I've tried messing with my OC profile, resetting to defaults, updating drivers, using CCleaner to clean system files and registry, and other solutions and have not come up with anything.

 

If you have any idea what the cause of this could be I would greatly appreciate it. Some might think it's a result of the games but as I said, they didn't use to run this way and now I have two notable cases of the issue in different games.

 

Specs are as follows:

Intel Core i5 8600K @ 3.60GHz, also using Intel Boost from the BIOS so it actually sits around 4.1 GHz. Had it stable around 4.5 beforehand using CPU Ratio.

MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon

Corsair Vengeance DDR4-3000MHz RAM (2x8 GB), XMP enabled.

ASUS Strix GTX 1080 8GB

Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2 NVME SSD

Seagate Barracuda 4 TB HDD

(x7) USB 3.0 Expansion Card

Cooler Master V550 PSU

 

The only pieces I have added to my system recently are the 4TB Barracuda HDD and the USB Expansion Card if that matters.

[cm992]

Probably the HDD being slower loading into a game/match since its pretty much the only thing that has changed as you said. Try moving rocket league or Halo to the SSD temporarily to see if it fixes the issue.

[Natortator]

20 hours ago, cm992 said:

Probably the HDD being slower loading into a game/match since its pretty much the only thing that has changed as you said. Try moving rocket league or Halo to the SSD temporarily to see if it fixes the issue.

I forgot to mention these game are running on my SSD...

[Natortator]

I've also noticed that the games stutter when new players are joining into the match. Could it be a network issue if I haven't touched my router settings or made any changes?

[cm992]

53 minutes ago, Natortator said:

I've also noticed that the games stutter when new players are joining into the match. Could it be a network issue if I haven't touched my router settings or made any changes?

it could just be the game

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56 minutes ago, Natortator said:

I forgot to mention these game are running on my SSD...

 

Check the SSD for any bad sectors, SMART errors, grab the health status, etc.

 

Use both CrystlDiskInfo and HWinfo

https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/

https://www.hwinfo.com/