Question My computer is very slow and glitchy when I DONT have a game open?

aidenhol884

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I have installed the newest versions of both my audio and graphics card drivers. Whenever I open my computer, it acts completely normal for a couple of minutes. Then the entire system becomes laggy, things take a while to load, and my video skips around, it looks like about 1fps. The audio is also extremely glitchy and lets out a constant clack noise about every .5 seconds. But when I do open up a game such as Mordhau or Rust or any other graphically intensive game, my computer runs perfectly fine, just like when I built it. The audio is perfect, and my browsers, system, as well as my game, run flawlessly.
Here are my specs:
XFX RX 580 8gb ddr5 GPU
Ryzen 3 2200g CPU
16gb ddr4 3200 mhz ram (running at 2133 for some reason)
AB350m-ds3h motherboard
500gb m.2 with windows on it
250gb sata ssd
1tb sata hard drive
Thermaltake smart 500w bronze
 
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Maybe you have issues with windows updating service? When you play the computer resources are busy playing and updates are suspended or something similar to this, like there was such a function in windows. Or issue with you power mode where frequency of CPU or GPU is go down.
 

aidenhol884

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Maybe you have issues with windows updating service? When you play the computer resources are busy playing and updates are suspended or something similar to this, like there was such a function in windows. Or issue with you power mode where frequency of CPU or GPU is go down.
Would this power saving mode be created by windows? or maybe i can turn it off in the bios?
Also, ever since this problem started, i have not received a single windows update, so it is possible that this is the issue. To fix this, should i reset my hard drive/ssds and download a new version of windows? or should i manually install windows updates online?
Thank you for your time.
 
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