Periodic episodes of severe freeze/stutter while Playing Apex Legends on a 1050ti

[The_CMDR]

Hello. During Apex Legends matches, game freezes and everything is frozen for about a second, and then resumes normal frames momentarily, then freezes again, then normal, rapidly.

It will stay normal for a while (few minutes, depends), and then do the freezing stuttering thing again.

 

It looks identical to this Redditor's problem: Link

 

This is what the gpu activity looks like during the stutter/freezing episodes: Link

 

Otherwise, the GPU usage hangs out at 90-100% in-game.

 

Specs:

MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI 

Ryzen 5 5600x

Asus Strix GTX 1050ti (temporary until gpu prices chill)

Corsair Vengeance Pro SL 16gb 3200mhz (via 1-click xmp) RAM

Game installed on 2TB Samsung Evo Plus NVMe SSD

Corsair RM750 PSU

Primary Monitor: Dell S2719DGF (144hz, 1440p desktop, 1080p in-game, DP)

Secondary Monitor: Viewsonic VX2480-2K-SHD (75hz, 1440p desktop, HDMI)

We have tried:

- Disabling fullscreen optimization

- Turning down different settings

- Uncapping fps via launch parameter

- Restarting the game/pc

- Verifying game cache via Steam

- Tweaking Nvidia control panel settings, including setting gpu to Performance power mode

Notes:

- No overheating of any component is going on

- No other strange cpu/ram/ssd behavior via task manager

- Latest gpu driver installed

- PC is newly built, all parts except GPU brand new. (The GPU was used for a short time before in a different PC, and it worked perfectly so I don't think this is the problem)

- No overclock on CPU or GPU

- Only Apex does this. Tested on Deep Rock Galactic, Osu, Hollow Knight, and Borderlands 3. 

 

Any more recommendations, solutions, are appreciated. Thank you LTT people.

Edited November 30, 2021 by The_CMDR
Added more details to specs, fixed format, added tags, added to "things tried"