Question PC Gaming issues since built in 2015

[melthuzad]

I built my PC with a friend's help in 2015 and I have had issues with stuttering in basically all programs, especially gaming. It slows everything down and is extremely frustrating. It also seems for load screens to take longer than they should as I've seen my friend's PC take half the time to load or less. If anyone has any ideas I'm all ears. My system info is as follows:

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4 GHz Quad-Core Processor Bios version F5
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming GT ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR3-1600 CL9 Memory
Storage: Samsung 870 Evo 2 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Video Card: NVIDIA 9001G4012510000 GeForce GTX 970 4 GB Video Card
Power Supply: Rosewill Capstone G750 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM - DVD 64-bit
Monitor: Dell E2414H 24.0" 1920 x 1080 Monitor

I know it's nothing spectacular, but even so it still usually exceeds minimum requirements for even todays games. I've played Smite, Diablo 4, BG3, League of Legends, Diablo Immortal, Tabletop Simulator, and others. All of them seem to have the same stuttering issue. The stutter happens with the video and audio simultaneously.

I've tried disk cleanups as an admin, defragmenting, and increasing VM. I run games on minimum video specs and it seems to help, but only very minor. I've tried using a secondary profile on the PC to check for profile specific process issues, and had the exact same issue.

If anyone can help I would appreciate it very much.

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

You could try and update the BIOS for your motherboard. Following that, using Samsung's Magician app, see if there are any firmware updates pending for your SSD. You might want to recreate your bootable USB installer for Windows 10, then reinstall the OS after a format on the SSD. You should manually install all the latest drivers that are relevatnt to your platform in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

You shouldn't have ran disk defragmentation on the SSD as it cripples it.

 

[melthuzad]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

You could try and update the BIOS for your motherboard. Following that, using Samsung's Magician app, see if there are any firmware updates pending for your SSD. You might want to recreate your bootable USB installer for Windows 10, then reinstall the OS after a format on the SSD. You should manually install all the latest drivers that are relevatnt to your platform in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

You shouldn't have ran disk defragmentation on the SSD as it cripples it.

Good Evening,

Thank you for the quick response. I have tried going through your instructions at my own pace but haven't really had any luck with it. I went to Gigabytes site and tried to install the newest (F7) BIOS update but when I did it said the package was in 16bit and wouldn't run. I've installed and reinstalled the Samsung Magician app and the old 250GB drive shows everything just fine, but the new 2TB drive shows up as 'not supported'. I tried creating a bootable drive and loading off that, but when trying to reinstall the OS system it said I couldn't because none of them were/had DTI something, I don't remember. I believe I have gone through Device Manager and manually updated all drivers, if that's indeed what you meant. I apologize the defrag had happened on the old drive and not the new one. I got the new drive maybe 5-6 months ago.