Games suddenly stutter and use a LOT of resources.

[eendermail]

Hello!
I just recently (about three days ago) noticed, that Overwatch stuttered quite a lot when I played it. This was odd because I've been playing it and a lot heavier games fairly well for three years now with this computer of mine.

So I decided to check the task manager and holy god the CPU, RAM and GPU usages were on all 70%+!
This weirded me out because I have checked how my games affect these things in the past and everything was just under 50% then and everything was running silky smooth.

So I quit playing and noticed that my RAM usage was 50% even when I had nothing running!

I decided to reboot the computer and try again, but every game stuttered and lagged in the same way.

I ran multiple malware and virus scans with Norton and Malwarebytes. Nothing showed up.

What do you people think I could do? I'm pretty much running out of options!

Oh and here are my specs: (They ain't the best for sure)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6400 CPU @ 2.70GHz
RAM: 8.0gb
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 (build 17134), 64-bit

 

[seagate_surfer]

eendermail, could be the HDD as well. Run Seatools on your drive/s and see what the results are.

 

[eendermail]

eendermail, could be the HDD as well. Run Seatools on your drive/s and see what the results are.

Hello!
I have SSD btw!
Anyways, I passed all the tests and they were positive!

 

[seagate_surfer]

eendermail , good to know the SSD passed the test. Therefore the problem must lie elsewhere.