I've been getting some stutter/lag in some games on PC (a broad spectrum of games, but not all). It's just enough to be game breaking in some and not enough in others. I think it may have to do with accessing the hard drive because of what I have associated it with, but I don't know if that means that I have a faulty harddrive or if the problem could still be somewhere else, like the GPU.
Anyway, it's basically a small half second freeze that happens on and off, with different frequency in different games and it seems to be related to things loading in... I guess it is best to demonstrate with examples
Red Orchestra 2 - every time a tooltip comes up the games freezes for a few seconds before displaying the tooltip
when I first load into a match it will continuously stutter for about fifteen seconds until everything loads in,
if I have the settings up high (which, most significantly, I think, means higher resolution textures) it will stutter every time I enter iron sights on the gun if I haven't entered iron sights recently. Once I enter iron sights I can go in and out with no stutter but if I wait a while and go in it stutters again (hdd spinning down?)
Company of Heroes 2 - seems to stutter every time a tooltip/hint/objective is displayed, like the Enemy Sighted warnings
Many other games that I haven't played recently or don't care to list have similar issues, Metro Last Light seems to stutter continuously (like every five seconds) if I have the settings high enough, despite running at a good framerate (50+)
I am suspecting harddrive or gpu, but I think I might take it to a computer repair shop, idk if any of those places can deal with this kind of problem though. People say to switch out components but I don't know anyone who would do this, so just wondering if there's a place you could pay to do that, or what components are most likely that I should buy first to test. Thank you.
Anyway, it's basically a small half second freeze that happens on and off, with different frequency in different games and it seems to be related to things loading in... I guess it is best to demonstrate with examples
Red Orchestra 2 - every time a tooltip comes up the games freezes for a few seconds before displaying the tooltip
when I first load into a match it will continuously stutter for about fifteen seconds until everything loads in,
if I have the settings up high (which, most significantly, I think, means higher resolution textures) it will stutter every time I enter iron sights on the gun if I haven't entered iron sights recently. Once I enter iron sights I can go in and out with no stutter but if I wait a while and go in it stutters again (hdd spinning down?)
Company of Heroes 2 - seems to stutter every time a tooltip/hint/objective is displayed, like the Enemy Sighted warnings
Many other games that I haven't played recently or don't care to list have similar issues, Metro Last Light seems to stutter continuously (like every five seconds) if I have the settings high enough, despite running at a good framerate (50+)
I am suspecting harddrive or gpu, but I think I might take it to a computer repair shop, idk if any of those places can deal with this kind of problem though. People say to switch out components but I don't know anyone who would do this, so just wondering if there's a place you could pay to do that, or what components are most likely that I should buy first to test. Thank you.
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