Question How do I prevent everything from stuttering?

[ColinHerum]

I have a custom built computer with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor 3.80 GHz, 32 GB of RAM, and a 3070ti FE GPU. (Windows 10 and all drivers are up to date) It ran flawlessly until about the start of this summer when I stated noticing stuttering. I thought at first it was cause I was playing a graphics/memory intensive game until I realized that the stuttering was happening for everything. Web browsers stuttered. Discord stuttered. File explorer stuttered. Its not constant but it happens often enough and for long enough that its getting hard to use this computer. The delay between me opening a web link and the link actually loading makes me feel like I'm on my dad's Window's 98 dell again. I'm not sure where to put this since I'm not sure what's causing it, I just know basically everything is effected. My question is, how do I stop the stuttering without factory resetting my computer?

 

[Lutfij]

Might want to see if using DDU to remove all your GPU drivers, then manually reinstalling the latest GPU drivers sourced from Nvidia's support site, in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator, helps alleviate the issue.

Make and model of the PSU? How old is the PSU in your build?

 

[thestryker]

I'd also add to that run LatencyMon to see if it can detect anything in particular as this is sounding like a system issue of some sort. Would also be worthwhile to check CPU/Disk usage to make sure nothing weird is going on there.

 

[ColinHerum]

Might want to see if using DDU to remove all your GPU drivers, then manually reinstalling the latest GPU drivers sourced from Nvidia's support site, in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator, helps alleviate the issue.

Make and model of the PSU? How old is the PSU in your build?

I'll try doing that tomorrow, see how that goes.
My PSU is an EVGA - GP Series SuperNOVA 1000W ATX 80 Plus Gold. Its 2 years old.

 

[ColinHerum]

I'd also add to that run LatencyMon to see if it can detect anything in particular as this is sounding like a system issue of some sort. Would also be worthwhile to check CPU/Disk usage to make sure nothing weird is going on there.

The analysis report says that my application responsiveness and kernel latencies and real-time capabilities are bad, everything else seems good.

 

[thestryker]

The analysis report says that my application responsiveness and kernel latencies and real-time capabilities are bad, everything else seems good.

Usually it'll show the problematic items when it runs the tests.

 

[geofelt]

Look at your list of installed apps.
Look for something new that you do not recognize.

Consider using system restore to reset your pc back to when all was well.

Most likely some sort of malware or a bad windows update has been installed.

 

[ColinHerum]

Usually it'll show the problematic items when it runs the tests.

Its not showing anything in particular. It just says to disable CPU throttling in the control panel and to look for BIOS updates. I just updated it so that should no longer be an issue.

 

[ColinHerum]

Usually it'll show the problematic items when it runs the tests.

This is the conclusion that LatencyMon gave:
Conclusion: Your system seems to be having difficulty handling real-time audio and other tasks. You may experience drop outs, clicks or pops due to buffer underruns. One or more DPC routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. One problem may be related to power management, disable CPU throttling settings in Control Panel and BIOS setup. Check for BIOS updates.

 

[ColinHerum]

Might want to see if using DDU to remove all your GPU drivers, then manually reinstalling the latest GPU drivers sourced from Nvidia's support site, in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator, helps alleviate the issue.

Make and model of the PSU? How old is the PSU in your build?

I used DDU and reinstalled my drivers. Nothing has changed.