Freezing and stuttering during multitasking (playing games and watching videos)

Casinosnake · July 23, 2023

Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-13700KF Processor (8X 3.40GHz + 8X 2.50GHz/30MB L3 Cache)

Motherboard: MSI MAG Z790 Tomahawk WiFi

Memory: 32 GB [16 GB X2] DDR5-6000MHz Kingston FURY Beast RGB

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti - 12GB GDDR6X

Power Supply: 1000 Watt - CORSAIR RM1000X - 80 PLUS Gold, Fully Modular

Processor Cooling: Enermax AQUAFUSION ADV 360mm ARGB Liquid Cooler

Primary Storage: 2TB TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA ZERO Z440 M.2 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD -- Gen 4 Read: 5000MB/s; Write: 4400MB/s, Gen 3 Read: 3000MB/s; Write: 2600MB/s

Operating System: Windows 11 Home 64-bit

Good evening yall,

So in late march I bought a new computer. The issue im having is related to when I load up certain newer games on one monitor, and have a browser open with a video stream up on the other. The issue is almost never with the game, except for a few recently released poorly optimized games.

I'm consistently getting lag and freezes on my 2nd monitor with both the video stream and windows 11. I've opened task manager during this time and while incredibly slow to come up, when it does finally pop up my cpu, and memory are like 10-35 percent. (GPU is sometimes higher depending on the game but ive never really seen it go above 60 percent usage.)

I've never really been a hardware guy so I thought I would come here to ask for help. I've updated the drivers I can find, including my bios. Version number is 7D91vH7. Any help in troubleshooting or a way forward to narrowing down the issue would be greatly appreciated. I feel like with the hardware I have I "shouldn't" be having any issues with what I'm trying to do.