Constant Slowdowns

[juicer5024]

For a little over a week my computer has been having weird graphical slowdowns. On initial boot, my computer will run perfectly fine, but as the day goes on these slowdowns will randomly start occurring. Once they start, the only thing that stops them is a full reboot of my PC.
Types of slowdowns:

1. Tabbing out of a game locks up the computer temporarily, and even my mouse cursor will move in slow motion.

2. Pressing CTRL+Alt+ Del causes a huge slowdown, and can take up to a minute before the menu opens

3. Anytime an app requires being opened as admin, my computer slows down and can take up to a minute to bring up the prompt. (Video attached)
4. Once slowdowns start, my in game frame counter will show that I am getting my normal framerates, but the games will still look extremely choppy or as if they're skipping frames.

5. I have a 165hz monitor, so dragging windows across the screen is usually extremely smooth, but once the slowdowns occur,dragging windows across the screen looks extremely choppy as well.

 

Things I have tried:

1. Clean installs of graphics and chipset drivers.

2. Installing older graphics card driver from before start of slowdowns.

3. Once slowdowns start, end processes one by one in task manager to see if any one program may be causing this. Multiple times I thought I found a program that may have been causing issues, but the slowdowns ended up coming back.

4. Running windows 11 with FTPM set to off, and back to On.
5. Re-seating graphics card, ram, and cpu.

If anyone has any ideas on what could be causing this I'd really appreciate the help!
Specs:
OS: Windows 11 64bit
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600

Ram: 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB 3200mhz(4 8GB sticks)

Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI
BIOS: 7C37v1G
GPU: EVGA Black RTX 2080 Super
Power Supply: Corsair RM 1000x 80+ Gold

[juicer5024]

I forgot to mention that temperatures of the system are all pretty solid as well. So this isn't an overheating issues. GPU tends to never hit anything above 70C under load, and cpu typically never hits above 65-70C under load either. Both sit around 35-40C at idle.

[Frizz]

2 hours ago, juicer5024 said:

For a little over a week my computer has been having weird graphical slowdowns. On initial boot, my computer will run perfectly fine, but as the day goes on these slowdowns will randomly start occurring. Once they start, the only thing that stops them is a full reboot of my PC.
Types of slowdowns:

1. Tabbing out of a game locks up the computer temporarily, and even my mouse cursor will move in slow motion.

2. Pressing CTRL+Alt+ Del causes a huge slowdown, and can take up to a minute before the menu opens

3. Anytime an app requires being opened as admin, my computer slows down and can take up to a minute to bring up the prompt. (Video attached)
4. Once slowdowns start, my in game frame counter will show that I am getting my normal framerates, but the games will still look extremely choppy or as if they're skipping frames.

5. I have a 165hz monitor, so dragging windows across the screen is usually extremely smooth, but once the slowdowns occur,dragging windows across the screen looks extremely choppy as well.

 

Things I have tried:

1. Clean installs of graphics and chipset drivers.

2. Installing older graphics card driver from before start of slowdowns.

3. Once slowdowns start, end processes one by one in task manager to see if any one program may be causing this. Multiple times I thought I found a program that may have been causing issues, but the slowdowns ended up coming back.

4. Running windows 11 with FTPM set to off, and back to On.
5. Re-seating graphics card, ram, and cpu.

If anyone has any ideas on what could be causing this I'd really appreciate the help!
Specs:
OS: Windows 11 64bit
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600

Ram: 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB 3200mhz(4 8GB sticks)

Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI
BIOS: 7C37v1G
GPU: EVGA Black RTX 2080 Super
Power Supply: Corsair RM 1000x 80+ Gold

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Does event viewer -> Windows logs -> system show any logs around when this happens? Any warning/error/critical logs?

 

Have you ran DDU in safemode? It's about the only way to truly clear out old GPU drivers.

 

memtest86 on a USB will also help show any immediate RAM issues

[juicer5024]

25 minutes ago, Frizz said:

Does event viewer -> Windows logs -> system show any logs around when this happens? Any warning/error/critical logs?

 

Have you ran DDU in safemode? It's about the only way to truly clear out old GPU drivers.

 

memtest86 on a USB will also help show any immediate RAM issues

I've checked event viewer multiple times, and haven't seen any errors or warnings.

I have not tried to do DDU or  memtest86. I will give both of those a try!

[juicer5024]

19 hours ago, Frizz said:

Does event viewer -> Windows logs -> system show any logs around when this happens? Any warning/error/critical logs?

 

Have you ran DDU in safemode? It's about the only way to truly clear out old GPU drivers.

 

memtest86 on a USB will also help show any immediate RAM issues

I didn't get a chance to finish all 4 passes of the final test, but I was already at a huge amount of errors. I've never ran a memtest86 before so I am not entirely sure what any of this means.

[Frizz]

47 minutes ago, juicer5024 said:

I didn't get a chance to finish all 4 passes of the final test, but I was already at a huge amount of errors. I've never ran a memtest86 before so I am not entirely sure what any of this means.

You got bad RAM. If it didn't say within the test which stick it was (because that pic doesn't specifically say) then I would try one stick at a time and see what happens. 
 

That will tell you which stick is the issue

[juicer5024]

Finally was able to get new ram. Tested it in memtest86. It passes the test. I played games for a day, and things seemed normal. But the slowdowns are happening again in the exact same way. So I am not entirely sure what could be causing the issue.

[Heliian]

Try 2 sticks of ram. 

[juicer5024]

3 hours ago, Heliian said:

Try 2 sticks of ram. 

When I got the new ram, I only bought a 2 stick kit. 16GB Corsair Vengeance RGB(8x2)

[Heliian]

Did you try a fresh windows install? 

[juicer5024]

On 3/11/2022 at 4:47 PM, Heliian said:

Did you try a fresh windows install? 

Finally got a chance to do this. As of right now the problem seems solved, but still have no idea what could have been causing this

[juicer5024]

Been a few days now since my fresh windows install. It seems to have fixed the issue. So i will mark this as solved. Thanks for the suggestions guys!

[Heliian]

Glad it worked out! I don't know the specifics behind it but a gradual slowdown could be caused by corrupted commands causing a logjam of sorts.  My main pc is on win10 until it's no longer supported.  They're still developing win11 pretty hard, it's like they released it in unfinished beta.