Ever since last week, I've been experiencing a very odd stuttering issue, exclusively in the game Paladins. Every 30 seconds exactly, my FPS stutters quite badly no matter how high or low my settings are, whether I'm in fullscreen or windowed, whether I have anything else open on my PC, etc. My ping remains stable, so I'm sure it isn't a server issue. I've tried every combination of V-Sync, FreeSync, AMD Chill and AMD FRTC I could to try to find a framerate I could escape from the stutters at, but even when capped as low as 30fps the problem persists, which perplexes me as I used to be able to run the game perfectly fine without capping the framerate at all.
I've reinstalled it, installed it on my hard drive instead of my SSD, reinstalled Steam, ran a malwarebytes scan, dusted my PC out, monitored my temperatures (they seem totally fine), checked for Windows and driver updates, disabled Windows 10 background apps (all of them), disabled everything I could from opening on startup, disabled unused devices in device manager, and checked with the game's community to see if anyone else is affected by this (it's just me). I'm at an absolute loss as to what I should do next. My assumption was that I had something running that was refreshing itself every 30 seconds and spiking my CPU usage in the process, but task manager and resource monitor don't display anything out of the ordinary, and my CPU usage hangs out around 40% while I have the game running.
If it helps, here are my specs (although again, I used to be able to run the game just fine and no other games are affected)
AMD Radeon R9 380 w/4GB VRAM
AMD FX-8350
Gigabyte 970A-DS3P
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 RAM @1866mhz
1TB HDD
200GB SSD
If you can think of anything I've yet to try please drop me a line, as I'm completely stumped on this. Thanks for reading, and have a good one <3
I've reinstalled it, installed it on my hard drive instead of my SSD, reinstalled Steam, ran a malwarebytes scan, dusted my PC out, monitored my temperatures (they seem totally fine), checked for Windows and driver updates, disabled Windows 10 background apps (all of them), disabled everything I could from opening on startup, disabled unused devices in device manager, and checked with the game's community to see if anyone else is affected by this (it's just me). I'm at an absolute loss as to what I should do next. My assumption was that I had something running that was refreshing itself every 30 seconds and spiking my CPU usage in the process, but task manager and resource monitor don't display anything out of the ordinary, and my CPU usage hangs out around 40% while I have the game running.
If it helps, here are my specs (although again, I used to be able to run the game just fine and no other games are affected)
AMD Radeon R9 380 w/4GB VRAM
AMD FX-8350
Gigabyte 970A-DS3P
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 RAM @1866mhz
1TB HDD
200GB SSD
If you can think of anything I've yet to try please drop me a line, as I'm completely stumped on this. Thanks for reading, and have a good one <3