Frame drops in-game

[superfantastic]

Lately I seem to be dropping frames, or perhaps you would call them stutters. Very noticable in a game like osu! where every milisecond counts.

 

these are my specs. I also have a samsung evo SSD.

 

I've also noticed lower fps in League of Legends. With the settings I use, I used to have 200+ fps but now it hovers around 90-120 and sometimes spikes up again for a while. That fps is certainly still playable, but I can very clearly notice some sort of delay or something, and more screentearing.

 

What could cause this? It started happening out of nowhere.

 

EDIT: The main and most bothering issue here is the frame drops in osu!. Every 5/10 seconds the game seems to freeze for like a nano second or something. The sound continues normally. At the same time the game shows a little block in the bottom right corner. The game does this to show delay and framedrops. So something is definitely happening I'm not crazy.

My previous 9 year old pc had 99 problems but frame drops weren't one. Why does my new good pc have this issue?

[LogicalDrm]

How are temps? Are there any heavy software running on background when you get these?

 

(Btw, "dropping frames" is usually used when talking about streaming)

[superfantastic]

Below 50 C at all times. Things I run in the background are usually discord (minimized) steam (minimized) and logitech software for mouse and keyboard.

 

Closing discord and steam does not appear to have any effect.

[LogicalDrm]

17 hours ago, superfantastic said:

Below 50 C at all times. Things I run in the background are usually discord (minimized) steam (minimized) and logitech software for mouse and keyboard.

 

Closing discord and steam does not appear to have any effect.

I meant things like your AV, Windows search indexing, any downloads for updates and such. Anything that would for short period make CPU usage spike causing stuttering.