Question Games freezing and stuttering on 2017 prebuilt

Qaerus

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I have this prebuilt that I got back from 2017. I upgraded it with a SATA Samsung 860 EVO 1 TB and two 8 GB sticks of Corsair Vengence RAM.

Just over the past year I've been having some performance issues with it in games that I never had a problem with. Games will freeze and stuttering and significantly drop in frames in areas with a lot of geometry.

Most notably this happens when loading in new areas. I can send any information and diagnostics or try whatever might diagnose a potential issue, I just don't know where to begin because its been the same song and dance for a while now.

I've reinstalled windows 10 after getting stuck with windows 11 insider builds and I don't really notice that much of a performance increase. Essentially I'm just looking for guidance. I was planning on building a new computer anyway but would like to see if there's anything I'm missing with this one that could be causing such performance issues.

Thanks.

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/851171843
here is a video of it happening at 0:56 in the video it freezes
I have all the metrics in view hopefully you can see them well enough
its way worse in certain areas and happens across games
 
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Qaerus

Prominent
Jul 20, 2022
4
0
510
I have this prebuilt that I got back from 2017. I upgraded it with a SATA Samsung 860 EVO 1 TB and two 8 GB sticks of Corsair Vengence RAM.

Just over the past year I've been having some performance issues with it in games that I never had a problem with. Games will freeze and stuttering and significantly drop in frames in areas with a lot of geometry.

Most notably this happens when loading in new areas. I can send any information and diagnostics or try whatever might diagnose a potential issue, I just don't know where to begin because its been the same song and dance for a while now.

I've reinstalled windows 10 after getting stuck with windows 11 insider builds and I don't really notice that much of a performance increase. Essentially I'm just looking for guidance. I was planning on building a new computer anyway but would like to see if there's anything I'm missing with this one that could be causing such performance issues.

Thanks.
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/851171843
here is a video of it happening at 0:56 in the video it freezes
I have all the metrics in view hopefully you can see them well enough
its way worse in certain areas and happens across games