Desktop and apps are lagging but games run really well

[morit]

Hello. My bud has a sort of gaming pc. I understand that you might not be able to help me because of the lack of detail but here is what he's got. - A Nvidia 960, 4Gbs of Ram, WD 1tb Hard Drive,A 100$ ish AMD cpu ( i cant remember the model,but its a good cpu 3.3ghz without turbo). Tasks such as booting and opening folders,Chrome,stuff like that take ages and sometimes even freeze the pc to a black screen. It has a screensaver set,so yea... Its running windows 8.1,so am i. I've never had any problem with theese kind of things. What could be causing the lag? Games run fine. Overwatch Epic settings 60+ fps no problem. Other games like Splinter Cell Blacklist run fine too. Gaming isnt a issue,but normal tasks are. Its not overheating. He has a massive cooler and its running at low temps - not throttling.

 

[Dikyashi]

Hello. My bud has a sort of gaming pc. I understand that you might not be able to help me because of the lack of detail but here is what he's got. - A Nvidia 960, 4Gbs of Ram, WD 1tb Hard Drive,A 100$ ish AMD cpu ( i cant remember the model,but its a good cpu 3.3ghz without turbo). Tasks such as booting and opening folders,Chrome,stuff like that take ages and sometimes even freeze the pc to a black screen. It has a screensaver set,so yea... Its running windows 8.1,so am i. I've never had any problem with theese kind of things. What could be causing the lag? Games run fine. Overwatch Epic settings 60+ fps no problem. Other games like Splinter Cell Blacklist run fine too. Gaming isnt a issue,but normal tasks are. Its not overheating. He has a massive cooler and its running at low temps - not throttling.

HI There,

Can you open task manager and go to the performance tab and see the reading(CPU,Disk,Memory) sometimes when the disk,memory or cpu runs at 100% we get slow performance .Also check if he is not running in power saver mode.

 

[dark_lord69]

Open resource manager and see if anything is using 100% of the CPU, Disk or RAM.

Windows is likely trying to do something that it's stuggling with.
Sometimes it can hang when it can't find a network printer.
Sometimes it can hang when the disk is in need of repair.

Run CHKDSK with the /R switch (Google it)
I've seen that fix similar issues many times.

Worst example I saw: It was a combination of disk issues and fragmentation. Took his ultra high end PC to it's knees.
I ran CHKDSK /R and then did a defrag and in the end he said it performs like he just bought it again.

 

[rgd1101]

What is the cpu setting in power profile?