stuttering and freezing

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  1. O

    Question Good Gaming PC with stuttering, unstable frames and frame drops in game

    Hello, thank you for any assistance in advance :) I have a pretty decent gaming PC, but as the title describes I have the following symptoms: Random Stuttering when using Chrome, Email, Skype. Specifically when clicking through tabs or clicking reply or clicking between tabs Stuttering and...
  2. M

    Question System Is under-performing ?

    I’ll start with my specs: PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/CX97cH CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 4.5 GHz 8-Core Processor ($244.49 @ Amazon) CPU Cooler: Vetroo V240 52 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($59.99 @ Amazon) Motherboard: Gigabyte B650M GAMING X AX Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard...
  3. M

    Question New PC crashes constantly and has really long boot up, please could you help?

    Good day to everyone. I recently built this PC: AMD 7800x3d RTX 2080ti Corsair Vengeance White 64GB 6000MHz DDR5 Gigabyte AMD Ryzen B650 AORUS ELITE AX ICE AM5 Corsair RM850 (2021) 850 Watt 80 Plus Gold Corsair iCUE H150i RGB ELITE 2 tb samsung ssd 1tb m.2 firecude ssd (boot drive) I had...
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    Question stuttering-fps drop-freezing

    I have a ryzen 5 1600 - 16bg ddr4 2666 - rx 6600 8gb and everywhere its says that i have a cpu bottleneck but my usage is around 60% cpu , 100%gpu in 1080p low sett. Temp: 60 C 65 C Should i overclock gpu ?
  5. R

    Question My laptop keeps getting bluescreen.

    Hello everyone! Please forgive me if I wrote something wrong on my thread because I'm not an english native speaker. So, 3 days ago my laptop just had a bluescreen and the code says Driver_Power_State_Failure, I have done re-installing the GPU driver but it doesn't affect anything, It keeps...
  6. SamBlips

    Question PC Freezing for 5-8 Minutes then WiFi Driver Goes Missing

    Ever since mid-December 2023, my PC I built in July 2023, began having these stuttering freezes that lasted 5-8 minutes, with the PC chugging every 2 seconds and the audio as well. And when the stuttering stops, I see the RGB lights on my Keyboard, Mouse, and RAM sticks light up even though I...
  7. M

    Question Microstuttering every 0.5s

    Hi, recently my brothers PC started to stutter every 0.5s or so, I updated BIOS drivers, GPU drivers, checked storage drives with multiple programs - appears good, scanned with malwarebytes, tested with 3dmark - everythings good, currently testing ram with memtest86 but till now everything seems...
  8. T1Dolo

    Question Games laggy & constant stuttering - - - how to fix ?

    Recently my PC went to [vulgarity redacted] and won't let me play any games. I get under 30fps and constant stuttering. Can anyone help me. https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/64323648 Components: Processor intel Core i7-10700K U3E1, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 0.45...
  9. Serj_o

    Question Motherboard overheating

    Hey everyone, I'm having an issue with my newly assembled PC. Some games (Remnant 2 and Dead Space 3) are experiencing constant stuttering. The stutters last for about 3-5 seconds. Usually, the stuttering only affects the video, but there have been instances where it affected the audio and...
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    Question I dusted my pc and cleaned it, and now I have insane stuttering and crashes

    I cleaned my pc, and I admit this wasn't the brightest of ideas, with a leaf blower. I was pretty far away and made sure the pc was off and everything. I had done it before with no issue in the past. Anyway, i dusted my computer and i started it up. Everything was completely fine until i booted...
  11. C

    Question RTX 3080 causing glitches/artifacts and black screen ?

    Hello, I have an asus strix 3080 10gb, which causes weird stuttering when loading into something, or randomly just idling. It also randomly causes black screens, which can sometimes be fixed by taking the cable out and in again, which causes windows to restart drivers. Temps are fine, on peak it...
  12. beablovr

    Question Terrible stuttering on only a few games

    Can anyone help me figure out why my pc uncontrollably stutters on a few games. I have a Radeon 5600xt, R5 3600, and a thomahawk b450 max. The stuttering is very persistent, its not even just stuttering, it completely freezes. and might be fine for a few seconds but then goes back. Like it is...
  13. Midoz199

    Question Stuttering problem with high fps.

    Hello, I experience random stutters. That's basically it. Most of the time I observe them during gaming session because the fps counter also drops for a fraction of a second. There are other instances where I experience them, mostly when I open a program or a game, just after I double click it...
  14. Zamfik267

    Question PC severely underperforming, stuttering and weird GPU & CPU Usage ?

    Hello, so recently i’ve bought myself an RX 6650 XT 8gb Shappire Pulse, i had an RX 580.. But after installing the new gpu my pc was severely under performing.. i was getting wierd usages like 50% CPU 45% GPU in games but very low fps.. sometimes i would also get 100% GPU and 20% CPU or...
  15. angxlv

    Question Random stutters/freezes when under load Windows 10 after upgrading CPU and Motherboard

    So I recently upgraded my motherboard and cpu, but recently when gaming or have a game open in the background I have random stutters/freezes which seems like if I alt tabbed in game and comes back. But, it’s not exactly an alt tab, during these stutters/freezes also I cannot move my keyboard and...
  16. M

    Question Very confused on why my computer is lagging so much when playing games or even when I am just using it normally, my SPECS are as follows....

    Here are my specs! RTX 3070 Nivida and AMD Ryzen 5 5600x 6 core processor I have also 16g of ram. I honestly have no idea why it is slow, I thought I had a beefy computer but it can't even play any game without LAG/freezes or use chrome without freezing and it also feels like my keyboard has...
  17. termite_z

    Question Why are my games stuttering so badly ?

    the title says it all. so basically it will only happen on high graphics games such as ARK , COD , ASSASSIN'S even in fortnite and overwatch sometime every time it stutter the disk usage goes up too 100 and will be back to normal after the stutter stop but after resetting my pc everything run...
  18. SecreShark

    Question Has anyone else been experiencing micro stutters with Ryzen 5800x and AMD Sapphire 6800XT?

    I am about at my wits end trying to figure out why I'm experiencing an issue with micro stuttering. I am hopeful that after speaking with people in this forum, I can help come to a conclusion for the initial cause of this problem. I currently have a Ryzen 5800x AMD RX 6800xt dual channel 8x2 GB...
  19. O

    Question Windows stutter

    Hi, For the past days, I am experiencing stuttering. After some time, the whole laptop startes to lagging for about a minute, then it returns back to normal. After some time, it startes to lag again. I've tried to rename GameBarpresenceWriter but that didn't help a lot. Does anyone know how can...
  20. Reniro

    [SOLVED] Processor is loaded at 100% in the Cyberpunk 2077

    Hello everyone, I starded playing Cyberpunk 2077 again and I noticed that at every graphic settings (low-high settings) I have suttering in the places where are a lot of npc, cars. The game is installed on the SSD I turned on Nvidia Overlay and noticed that the CPU is loaded on 96-100%, but GPU...
  21. drabenstadtj

    Question System Stuttering, Audio Glitches, Crashing

    Back in January I upgraded the CPU and Motherboard in my system from an i5-8600k to an i5-12600k and a Gigabyte z690 UD DDr4. Since completing the upgrade I have been experiencing freezing and stuttering of my video, mouse, and keyboard as well as audio looping/stuttering/static. During and...
  22. GraphicCardStuttering

    Question GraphicsCardStruttering

    I previously had a rx 560 4 gb, I upgraded it to gtx 1650. But there is a lot of stuttering in the new gpu. Here are my specs: Intel core i7 3770 16 gb ram 500 gb ssd. Please let me know the fix to it. I also have same gpu in another pc of specs: ryzen 5 3600 16gb ram 500 gb ssd In the second...
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    Question Low GPU & CPU usage ?

    i have rtx 3060 and i510400, idk when i play valorant my max gpu usage is 2% and cpu is around 30% and i get around 220fps everything on low ( stutter sometimes or freeze for sec). Idk what to do i tryed every thing from overclocking and optimising windows 10. For other games i get to low gpu...
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    Question PC stuttering on desktop roughly every hour and on startup

    Hi all, recently upgraded my GPU, CPU cooler and moved my OS from a 120gb SSD to a 2tb M.2. Have been experiencing intermittent lag on startup and roughly a few hours into usage, with no correlation to CPU load or heat. Had the new GPU for about a week before other parts were installed and it...
  25. SolonQ

    [SOLVED] Games dropping to 0% GPU Usage.

    Mostly all the games I play, there are sudden moments where my GPU and sometimes the CPU usage drops to 0% which causes my game to freeze/stutter for like 30 seconds. I've done a lot of researching and people claim it's the ram. I run Memory Diagnostics and it said nothing was wrong with it, so...
  26. P

    Question Thermal Paste on CPU pins, Socket,Ram and motherboard.

    Please bare with me it might be little long but I really need your help fellers. Okay so a little accident happened. While re applying thermal paste to my Ryzen 5 3600 I decided to use more paste than usual because the paste itself was about to end and I didnt want to waste it (Rookie mistake I...
  27. S

    Discussion All Games Lagging on a good pc and I don't know what to do :/ Please Help!

    I built my pc in late Summer 2020 (Specs: MSI RTX 2060 Gaming Z, i7-10700K, G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB), EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G5, 80 Plus Gold 650W, MotherBoard MSI Z490-A PRO, Be Quiet DARK ROCK PRO 4). All Games seem to lag and stutter more often than they do for my friends, I...
  28. XwynPheryl

    [SOLVED] GTX 950m from GL552JX Stutter on everything

    I've also summarized the problem at the bottom if you want to skip the backstory Spec : Asus GL552JX Windows 10 Pro-64 bit (21H1 19043.928) BIOS GL552JX.203 i7-4720HQ 2.60GHz (8 CPU) SSD 248GB + HDD 1TB 8GB RAM GTX 950m 4gb VRAM Backstory : I bought this old second hand laptop in 2017, while...
  29. Reniro

    [SOLVED] Games started to freeze

    My mate have a problem. Till yesterday every game on his pc runned in 50-60 fps. But yesterday, games started to have a lot of stuttering on every graphic setting. He said that this looks like slow-mo (5 fps). While he play CPU is loaded on 20% +-. but GPU always is loaded on 100%. When he...
  30. Pajman64

    [SOLVED] Games stutter at start of match (frametime spikes) ?

    Hi im out of mind from this. Low demand games such Csgo and Fortnite heavily stutter at start of match, and after like 3 minutes they stutter less (but they still sttuter). League of legends have 1 frametime spike every game at 00:20 game clock. And everytime when somethink happends for first...
  31. Pajman64

    [SOLVED] HDD cause of stuttering?

    Hi all, i just fight with stuttering in my games for almost half year now. Spend lot of days fixing this issue. And i need your help guys. I got 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD for Games(1400GB FREE space, 3 years old ), and 128GB SSD for Windows (60GB Free space, 6 months old). And lot of low demand...
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    [SOLVED] My Computer freezes, hangs, and the audio stutters.

    Hello, Tom's Hardware community! I am in need of your help! Recently, my computer has been acting up crazy as it freezes, hangs, and audio stutters (the endless loop of 'bzzzz' or similar) while either playing games or just browsing the internet. This happened more frequently as 2021 started as...
  33. B

    [SOLVED] Stuttering and long boot time

    Hello. My pc specs are : GPU: ASUS TUF 5700xt OC edition CPU: Ryzen 5 3600x RAM: G.SKILL AEGIS 2x8gb 3200mhz MOBO: AsRock B450M-HDV SSD: crucial p1 500gb m.2 nvme PSU: Seasonic 620W bronze Whenever I try to download/update my AMD radeon software/drivers, my computer starts stuttering, it's very...
  34. Beemka

    [SOLVED] [RTX2070S + Ryzen 5 3600] -- stuttering and FPS drops in every game ?

    Specs: Gigabyte RTX 2070S (default settings) (40-50 idle and 60-70 on high loads) Ryzen 5 3600 (auto oc) (40 idle and ~70 on high load) ASUS Crosshair VI Hero mobo Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB 3200mhz (3600mhz oc with xmp) PSU 650W Dual monitor setup full hd 144 DP + 60 HDMI PC worked...
  35. Crowywoey

    Question PC Stuttering (Only while loading?)

    Hello all, My PC, which I have owned for just over a year now, has started to stutter on games and Windows startup. This only began about 3/4 weeks ago while playing a game of CS:GO. My PC started freezing up really badly, so I decided to check Task Manager and my Memory usage was at 100% from...
  36. I

    [SOLVED] Random freezing and I can't find out if the issue is software- or hardware-related

    Specs: i7 - 8700k Asus Strix 2080 OC Asus Prime Z370-A Samsung 970 EVO Plus (windows installed here) Samsung 860 SSD Corsair Dominator RGB DDR4 3200MHz 32GB Corsair RM650x 650W (v2) I'm struggling with random freezes, and I can't locate if the issue is hardware- or software-related. I've...
  37. R

    [SOLVED] Ryzen 5 5600x? Pc freezing

    I have a ryzen 5 5600x, ASUS ROG B450-F GAMING motherboard, GTX 1070, 3600MHZ CL18 corsair vengeance ram 8x2 GB I bought the ryzen 5 5600x and my 3070 is coming. I Replaced my ryzen 5 3600 today with the 5 5600x. My usbs have disconnected constantly a few times every minute ( headphones...
  38. elric91

    Question Stuttering after change to ssd and clean windows 10 install on a toshiba laptop(from 100 fps to 60 fps)still stuttering

    i have a toshiba laptop with a gt740 m nvidia card and a hd graphics 4600( i now they are old) ,i change the hhd hardrive for a crucial bx 240 gb ssd.before the change i was playing games normally smooth on 80-120 fps,on 1280x720 ,on low textures and everything,Now with the change i am playing...
  39. D

    Question I'm experiencing lags and stutters on a brand new gaming pc

    This problem isn't new to me. My old PC always stuttered, especially in games and sometimes even while browsing. That's why i decided to build myself a new gaming PC, but the problem persisted. I have changed every single part, GPU, CPU , RAM, Mobo and PSU except for my HDD and SSD, Therefore...
  40. Yatoumori

    [SOLVED] Low FPS in games (such as GTA V and Overwatch)

    My PC build isn't all that new or anything, but I don't think these games should be completely impossible to play in the lowest graphics settings. My specs are GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, Intel Core i5-9400, 8 GB RAM. Malwarebytes & superantispyware don't bring up any issues. Background programs are...