[SOLVED] Frequent microstutters on MSI GS75 Stealth for past 2 weeks ?

[Lossguy]

I've been experiencing microstutters throughout the whole device, not just while running games, or anything demanding. I've owned this laptop for about a year now and this is the first time anything like this has happened. I've payed attention to the temperature of parts just incase the thermal compound went bad or if theres a lot of buildup but I haven't noticed any concerning numbers and my clock speeds are just fine.

I've ran Latencymon and half the time it says its fine, and the other half it says it has something to do with my ethernet driver (I reinstalled the driver multiple times, didn't change anything). I also reinstalled my gpu driver, also didn't do anything. I saw something similar happen to someone else with a NVMe drive not being properly set up in bios, so I tried to find a setting that they changed in my bios but with my nerfed laptop bios I couldn't find anything.

There is one thing I haven't tried and that is updating my bios, and that's mostly due to my bios saying I have a GS75 Stealth 9SG, which if I go to msi's website, I don't have that version (specs are different). And I'd rather not brick my system by installing the wrong bios update. Anytips to either pinpoint the problem or fix are greatly appreciated.
Here is Specs (MSI website calls it this GS75 Stealth-1074 )

Core i7-9750h

32gb ram 2666

RTX 2080 max-q

Killer Gaming Network E2500 (lan)

Intel 9560 Jefferson Peak (2x2 802.11 ac) (wlan)

Samsung MZVLB1T0HALR-00000 (nvme drive)

Here is latencymon report (when bad):

Conclusion: Your system appears to be having trouble handling real-time audio and other tasks. You are likely to experience buffer underruns appearing as drop outs, clicks or pops. One or more DPC routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. At least one detected problem appears to be network related. In case you are using a WLAN adapter, try disabling it to get better results. One problem may be related to power management, disable CPU throttling settings in Control Panel and BIOS setup. Check for BIOS updates.

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

What power setting are you using, I.E. High performance etc.?

 

[geofelt]

What might have changed in the last two weeks when all was well?
Possibly, windows pushed out a less than optimum update.
See if you can't use system restore to reset back to when things were good.

I see many complaints about gaming laptops not performing well.
Usually gaming while plugged in.
One common cause is thermal throttling.
Laptop coolers must, of necessity be small and light.
They are also relatively underpowered.
If you run an app such as HWMonitor or HWinfo, you will get the current, minimum, and maximum cpu temperatures.
For intel processors, if you see a max of 100c. it means you have throttled.
The cpu will lower it's multiplier and power draw to protect itself
until the situation reverses.
At a lower multiplier, your cpu usage may well be at 100%
What can you do?
First, see that your cooler airways are clear and that the cooler fan is spinning.

It is counter-intuitive, but, try changing the windows power profile advanced functions to a max of 90% instead of the default of 100%
You may not notice the reduced cpu performance.

 

[Lossguy]

What power setting are you using, I.E. High performance etc.?

In MSI settings I run the highest setting, and in windows I noticed I was using balanced, I just changed it, and so far its worked... Im thinking a windows update mightve just reverted it back to balanced, I just didn't think to check it, thank you

Edit after a couple hours of use it came back : (