- Dec 24, 2022
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Theres alot going on here and its a bit of a story. Ive been experiencing Micro stutters that just randomly started occuring one day about 7 months ago. In almost every program I use. Now if im say using a web browser its really not noticable in any significant way but almost any sort of game or other program it is. From the most demanding to the least demanding and regardless of settings. Whether its a game like Ready or Not or some bare bones RPGMaker game like Fear and Hunger. Both micro stutter non-stop. The micro stuttering issue seems to happen when loading things from my many hours of testing. For example loading the physics of an explosion in Darktide, a new player in Lost Ark, or a scrolling screen in Fear and Hunger. If I'm in an area where nothing new is being generated I don't seem to have any stuttering. However its just how it APPEARS to me.
Now its also progressed to Audio Popping too about a couple weeks ago. If there's a significant increase or decrease of volume/tone itll pop. Like if I click mute and unmute real quick. Certain replicatable noises in games can cause it consistently. Like the *plop* of falling into a body of water. Even certain voices cause it consistently. Oh yea also completely randomly my mouse will double click for 1-2 days then not do it for a week. Yes im not joking.
That's more or less the main issues I'm facing but heres where it gets interesting. Ive done everything to fix this and I mean almost EVERYTHING.
You name it and ive probably tried it already. The really messed up part is I took old parts I had laying around and make a second computer then plugged it in. The same exact issues happened there too. Also there is another computer in this house, on the other side of the wall, that has not experience any of this whatsoever. I think at this point there is only 1 or 2 potential culprits. Somehow the socket I plugged my computer into damaged both my computers in the exact same way to cause these issues. That or somehow even after Memtesting them twice overnight all 4 of my RAM sticks just randomly decided to have the same exact undiagnosible issue. Because I havent bought new RAM yet technicly. I had 2 sticks initially and then slotted 2 more I had laying around from upgrading before.
I will say I eventually saw something weird while monitoring my FPS, temps, PWR usage, etc. Most programs never even showed the micro stutters anywhere in the graphs/numbers. However MSI afterburner showed them eventually. My FPS micro dip downwards while my Frame Time would micro spike upwards. FPS went down as Frame Time went up. FPS would never dip to 0. Just go from 25-30 then back to a 60 cap. No idea if it means anything.
This is my question to you. What on earth is going on with me? Im genuinely losing any will to even use my computer anymore. Its just slowly whittling away at me. I had given up trying to fix it at this point but now that the audio is happening too its fix it or buy a pre-made computer, plug it into my UPS, and plug that into a completely separate room in the house. Making me want to give up entirely on PCs.
Feel free to suggest anything you feel might help. Even if ive tried it before ill probably try it again.
Now its also progressed to Audio Popping too about a couple weeks ago. If there's a significant increase or decrease of volume/tone itll pop. Like if I click mute and unmute real quick. Certain replicatable noises in games can cause it consistently. Like the *plop* of falling into a body of water. Even certain voices cause it consistently. Oh yea also completely randomly my mouse will double click for 1-2 days then not do it for a week. Yes im not joking.
That's more or less the main issues I'm facing but heres where it gets interesting. Ive done everything to fix this and I mean almost EVERYTHING.
- Tested with 3 different GPUS, 2 different CPUs, 2 different Motherboards, 4 different RAM sticks in every combination possible, 4 different Harddrives, brand new connecting cables to litterally everything, a new CASE (so 2 different cases), and 2 different PSUs. Many of these items listed ive tried in many different combinations.
- Uninstalled and manually installed almost every driver I could through Device Manager.
- Updated BIOs, fiddled with multiple different TPM settings, and messed around with XMP.
- Reinstalled Windows 10 about 30 times and then for a hail mary updated to Windows 11. Then reinstalled that a couple times during further tests.
- I moved my PC to the other side of the house and upstairs to test. Then changed the power strip. Finally I bought an UPS and plugged everything into that.
- My grandfather sent me a harddrive that worked and had Windows 10 on it. Still didnt work.
- Easily over 100 hours of googling and running programs to test for potential issues. This includes stuff like MEMtest.
- Monitored many different stats through MSI Afterburner and other programs. Almost nothing ever visibly showed.
- Unplugged my USB 3 connector cord from my case to my MOBO because some random forum said it could be the issue.
- I completely unplugged and disabled all internet connections then ran completely offline games that are years old and didnt have issues before.
- Created a new Windows profile, deleted the old, and ran on that new profile. Basicly attempted to see if some Windows setting was saved on my profile that was messing everything up.
- Many, many, many other potential "fixes"
You name it and ive probably tried it already. The really messed up part is I took old parts I had laying around and make a second computer then plugged it in. The same exact issues happened there too. Also there is another computer in this house, on the other side of the wall, that has not experience any of this whatsoever. I think at this point there is only 1 or 2 potential culprits. Somehow the socket I plugged my computer into damaged both my computers in the exact same way to cause these issues. That or somehow even after Memtesting them twice overnight all 4 of my RAM sticks just randomly decided to have the same exact undiagnosible issue. Because I havent bought new RAM yet technicly. I had 2 sticks initially and then slotted 2 more I had laying around from upgrading before.
I will say I eventually saw something weird while monitoring my FPS, temps, PWR usage, etc. Most programs never even showed the micro stutters anywhere in the graphs/numbers. However MSI afterburner showed them eventually. My FPS micro dip downwards while my Frame Time would micro spike upwards. FPS went down as Frame Time went up. FPS would never dip to 0. Just go from 25-30 then back to a 60 cap. No idea if it means anything.
This is my question to you. What on earth is going on with me? Im genuinely losing any will to even use my computer anymore. Its just slowly whittling away at me. I had given up trying to fix it at this point but now that the audio is happening too its fix it or buy a pre-made computer, plug it into my UPS, and plug that into a completely separate room in the house. Making me want to give up entirely on PCs.
Feel free to suggest anything you feel might help. Even if ive tried it before ill probably try it again.
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