Games and Spotify interacting oddly

[thebestpsychic]

Basic Specs:

RTX 3060

Ryzen 7 3700x

16 GB Ram @ 3600MHz

 

Occasionally when I hop on a game, typically FiveM or Star Wars Battlefront 2, my computer starts behaving oddly. After a few minutes or so of gaming, my spotify will randomly start looping at a one second interval, and my game will start to freak out, usually it'll respond slowly, or not at all and I'll be stuck moving around in one direction for awhile until I manage to switch to my other monitor and interact with spotify or until the issue fixes itself usually after 220-30 seconds. Its a real strange thing, I thought it may be a ram issue but when I look at task manager while this is happening it doesnt really max out, and typically when it happens I only have the game, discord and spotify open, which shouldn't really be enough to eat all that ram. I've tried searching my issue up online but I haven't found a proper answer or solution as to why this is happening yet.

[FI Fheonix]

2 minutes ago, thebestpsychic said:

Basic Specs:

RTX 3060

Ryzen 7 3700x

16 GB Ram @ 3600MHz

 

Occasionally when I hop on a game, typically FiveM or Star Wars Battlefront 2, my computer starts behaving oddly. After a few minutes or so of gaming, my spotify will randomly start looping at a one second interval, and my game will start to freak out, usually it'll respond slowly, or not at all and I'll be stuck moving around in one direction for awhile until I manage to switch to my other monitor and interact with spotify or until the issue fixes itself usually after 220-30 seconds. Its a real strange thing, I thought it may be a ram issue but when I look at task manager while this is happening it doesnt really max out, and typically when it happens I only have the game, discord and spotify open, which shouldn't really be enough to eat all that ram. I've tried searching my issue up online but I haven't found a proper answer or solution as to why this is happening yet.

Reinstall Spotify.

[thebestpsychic]

first thing i did

[FI Fheonix]

6 minutes ago, thebestpsychic said:

first thing i did

Have you tried reinstalling the games?

[thebestpsychic]

2 minutes ago, FI Fheonix said:

Have you tried reinstalling the games?

Yeah, I even moved them to different SSDs to see if that'd help. no shot

[FI Fheonix]

Just now, thebestpsychic said:

Yeah, I even moved them to different SSDs to see if that'd help. no shot

GPU driver updates?

[IkeaGnome]

26 minutes ago, thebestpsychic said:

I thought it may be a ram issue but when I look at task manager while this is happening it doesnt really max out, and typically when it happens I only have the game, discord and spotify open, which shouldn't really be enough to eat all that ram.

Something to keep in mind is when you switch from the game to task manager, ram usage will go down a bit. What is the ram usage before you go to task manager? What kind of drive are those games on, and is Spotify on the same drive?