Windows 10 Micro Stuttering window animations

[Amdixer]

Hello All,

 

I think I'm having GPU issues. Over the past couple of days I've had the following:

 

1. Screens (I have three) cutting in and out every now and then when looking at multiple video streams on multiple screens. (when I stop doing that it's fine again)

2. These annoying micro stutters for mostly window animations. At first I thought it might be my windows install, but after a full wipe and fresh install its still there...

 

I have attached a video. As you can see 'normally 'the mouse is 100% smooth, but when I hover over the back keys of chrome (which have a little animation associated with them) the mouse stuters like all hell. This happens for a lot of windows 10 animations (so for example also when I go to maximize the screen through window snapping or reload a chrome page etc.)

 

Does anyone have any idea what I could do? I'm currently on a fresh install with only chrome and my GPU driver installed... I'm afraid my GPU might be dieing, but not sure if there is a way I can figure that out properly.

[Radium_Angel]

1 hour ago, Amdixer said:

chrome and my GPU driver installed

Update all drives and patches. See what happens.

 

Alt option:

 

Use a LiveUSB install of something like Linux Mint (it's very windows like) 

Linux is rather intolerant of bad hardware. If the stuttering persists, you have bad hardware. If behaves, then you have a software issue under Windows.

[Amdixer]

21 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Update all drives and patches. See what happens.

 

Alt option:

 

Use a LiveUSB install of something like Linux Mint (it's very windows like) 

Linux is rather intolerant of bad hardware. If the stuttering persists, you have bad hardware. If behaves, then you have a software issue under Windows.

Great minds. I installed Pop!OS to see if that's better and the stuttering problems don't seem to appear in Linux. Which makes me wonder what the heck is going on. I even updated my (ASRock B450 Pro4) bios, installed all the chipset drivers etc. Updated to latest GPU driver. I'm very confused...

[Mark Kaine]

26 minutes ago, Amdixer said:

Great minds. I installed Pop!OS to see if that's better and the stuttering problems don't seem to appear in Linux. Which makes me wonder what the heck is going on. I even updated my (ASRock B450 Pro4) bios, installed all the chipset drivers etc. Updated to latest GPU driver. I'm very confused...

well, understandably so... but newest drivers aren't always the best... also you should try pinpoint when the issues started, did you install a new program or game...  a windows update? (are you sure? check in settings when the last update was...)

 

btw sometimes just reinstalling gpu drivers is all it needs , but generally it's better to use  DDU then reinstall the drivers. 

 

 

 

[Amdixer]

2 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

well, understandably so... but newest drivers aren't always the best... also you should try pinpoint when the issues started, did you install a new program or game...  a windows update? (are you sure? check in settings when the last update was...)

 

btw sometimes just reinstalling gpu drivers is all it needs , but generally it's better to use  DDU then reinstall the drivers. 

 

 

 

So this is on a clean install of Windows 10 with just the GPU and chipset drivers and Chrome installed.

[Mark Kaine]

28 minutes ago, Amdixer said:

So this is on a clean install of Windows 10 with just the GPU and chipset drivers and Chrome installed.

i see, i would still try an older gpu driver / DDU perhaps, and check for a bios update too possibly. 

 

tbh, i just watched the video... i didn't see any stuttering, i know however how mouse stutter feels, just to say that's really difficult to pinpoint i guess. 

 

personally,  when my mouse stutters... i have no idea why... it feels like a bad connection or something,  but thankfully that happens super rarely - i can't be too sure it isnt the mouse itself though... i don't think i used another one on this pc yet (thats how rare it is)

 

Edit: yeah i watched it again after checking  how its in my chrome... i see it now, that looks exactly like when my mouse stutters... it becomes just unresponsive...

 

And this happens always? im wondering if its not really a bug with the gpu drivers... nvidia/ windows are traditionally very bad at multi screen support ... definitely DDU/ try an older driver...

 

otherwise try another mouse and even keyboard just to check if its not a hardware issue 

 

 

[Radium_Angel]

another long shot option, grab a wired mouse and see how it behaves...

[Amdixer]

Alright, I'm convinced its the display driver. Just installed windows fresh again, it was fine until I installed the Radeon drivers. I'll roll back to an older version and see if that helps. (For anyone reading this post mortem, I had a 5600 XT)

 

Reverting to 22.5 worked....

[Mark Kaine]

59 minutes ago, Amdixer said:

Alright, I'm convinced its the display driver. Just installed windows fresh again, it was fine until I installed the Radeon drivers. I'll roll back to an older version and see if that helps. (For anyone reading this post mortem, I had a 5600 XT)

 

Reverting to 22.5 worked....

ohhh amd drivers, well you should have said that earlier! 

 

still weird though... so older driver fixed it ? 

 

 

1 hour ago, Radium_Angel said:

another long shot option, grab a wired mouse and see how it behaves...

i wanted to say that but then i thought most pc "enthusiasts" dont like wireless mice, even though they're clearly better since they don't have a wire.

[Radium_Angel]

10 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

amd drivers

I dumped AMD and went bac to nVidia because of AMD's driver issues. Glad you got it sorted OP.

[Mark Kaine]

3 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

I dumped AMD and went bac to nVidia because of AMD's driver issues. Glad you got it sorted OP.

i really liked ATi... never any issues...

 

well maybe intel can be the new ATi... some competition surely couldn't hurt.