Question Poor performance of GPU, flickering, stuttering and screen tearing

[gusttavin]

Good evening everyone, I hope you can help me.

3 years ago my config was an asus prime h510m-e, 1x8 ddr4 2400mhz, sata ssd, rx 550, i3-10100f and a generic thrones 500w source, this config being simple was much smoother some games, fixed fps without dropping.

The problem started after I decided to upgrade. I bought a rtx 3060 eagle gigabyte and a 600w gamemax gs source. From then on I started to notice that the games were no longer the same. I felt a lot of stuttering and flickering on the screen, even outside of games the pc screen would become distorted or shake, fps would drop, high frametime. I thought it could be a bottleneck so I upgraded the pc more, bought an nvme ssd and it didn't solve it. Then I changed to a b760m aorus elite, 1x16 ddr4 3600mhz and i5-12400f and even so the game was horrible and with shaking on the screen.

I've done everything; formatted the PC, ran antivirus, cleaned the PC, turned off and on vsync or gsync on the monitor and nothing. The PC basically only got good rarely. Out of nowhere the GPU performance was great but always with the problem. Then I saw reports that the GS600W Gamemax power supply was bad so I went there and changed it to an ASock Challenger 650W Bronze. The first 2 days with this power supply were wonderful, without any FPS drop and now the problem came back again and the last piece that really needs to be changed is the GPU.

Oh and the temperatures of the entire PC are normal, especially the CPU and GPU, I honestly don't know what to do anymore, one thing that always happens on the PC, even though I've formatted it several times is that the PC screen gets bugged when I minimize any program on the PC, as if it takes a long time to appear on the screen. I don't know how to explain it. I'll leave prints here of the quick stress test, my GPU is with power limitation, minimum clock under stress should reach around 1875+ and the GPU Voltage should reach its minimum 1,200v.

Drivers completely updated, I've even changed the power cable and monitor and nothing has solved it, when I enter games the GPU clock drops to 210MHz to 350MHz, when the FPS drops the memory clock also drops a lot, I've already changed the thermal paste and thermal pads of the GPU.

Current PC Config
RTX 3060 Eagle Gigabyte 12GB
i5-12400F
B760M Aorus Elite
1x16 DDR4 3600MHz Redragon
NVME SSD
ASRock Challenger 650W Bronze Power Supply

 

[gusttavin]

Here it shows the ones that are installed: drive

 

[GearUp]

Yes, it was through the website itself that I installed the motherboard drivers instead of their application, what I meant is that with this new updated chipset driver when I downloaded it from the website and tried to install it on the PC, it simply did not install at all, the only way was through the Gigabyte program gcc

When not connected to the internet you should be able to install the downloaded Windows by clicking it. Connect to the internet when required for the browser. I disconnect when finished for any newer driver installations by simply clicking the driver. Nearly any modern program will notify you when a connection is needed. If GCC is required, you should do a clean install, but I doubt it.

 

[gusttavin]

When not connected to the internet you should be able to install the downloaded Windows by clicking it. Connect to the internet when required for the browser. I disconnect when finished for any newer driver installations by simply clicking the driver. Nearly any modern program will notify you when a connection is needed. If GCC is required, you should do a clean install, but I doubt it.

That's exactly what I did. I downloaded all the motherboard drivers, turned off the internet, uninstalled the old motherboard drivers with RAPR, restarted the PC, and tried installing these drivers. It really didn't work. The Gigabyte loading screen even started to appear, but that was it, and then it disappeared, not installing the chipset drivers.

I'll record a video doing this.

 

[gusttavin]

When not connected to the internet you should be able to install the downloaded Windows by clicking it. Connect to the internet when required for the browser. I disconnect when finished for any newer driver installations by simply clicking the driver. Nearly any modern program will notify you when a connection is needed. If GCC is required, you should do a clean install, but I doubt it.

I made a video about not installing the drivers, but I still think it might be a CPU and GPU issue, since they started all this, and my games get really bad with FPS drops when there's a lot of movement.

Video here:

View: https://youtu.be/I5HrTq_xs7w

 

[gusttavin]

I tried a few more things. I opened Windows Verifier and asked it to check all Windows drivers. I restarted the PC and it went to the Windows repair screen. After that, I entered Safe Mode and disabled Verifier. I went to Device Manager to check all the drivers that had exclamation marks, meaning problems. These were Intel Dynamic, Intel iCLS, Intel Management Engine, NVIDIA High Definition, Realtek Audio, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft GS, headphones, microphone, and generic PnP monitor. Only these were having problems. After that, I went to Event Manager and there were several errors with the same code: error: 1084, event ID: 10005.

I restarted Windows to return to normal mode. After that, I noticed the mouse was still freezing. Then I went to the website and downloaded the Intel INF driver and Intel Management. When the Intel INF driver was installed, I noticed that the CPU GHz went back to what should be normal. It fluctuates between 3.9 and 4.4 ghz and this with the cpu being between 10 and 15% used at the time of installing these drivers, but incredibly it returns to normal reaching only 3.9 ghz and with the driver still not installing on the pc.

error:

https://imgur.com/a/ryfdFIN

View: https://imgur.com/a/ryfdFIN


driver photo1:

https://imgur.com/a/s5km4aF

View: https://imgur.com/a/s5km4aF


driver photo2:

https://imgur.com/a/oaPvNcQ

View: https://imgur.com/a/oaPvNcQ


driver photo3:

https://imgur.com/a/DjYIPOC

View: https://imgur.com/a/DjYIPOC

 

[GearUp]

That's exactly what I did. I downloaded all the motherboard drivers, turned off the internet, uninstalled the old motherboard drivers with RAPR, restarted the PC, and tried installing these drivers. It really didn't work. The Gigabyte loading screen even started to appear, but that was it, and then it disappeared, not installing the chipset drivers.

I'll record a video doing this.

The yellow bangs confirm you need a cleaner install since fundamentals like management engine should never show that. This sounds worse than Windows 7 when the best installs had stopped working for some aspects of OS programs like security. Without a better install I would suggest moving to Windows 11. I run versions 23 and 24 on different systems with no more issues than I ever had with 10. Your repair approach is not the same as backing up, even folders on a second drive to be disconnected, dowloading new drivers to an external drive and formatting a C drive during install. I use only the most basic windows structure, for some programming approaches. You may have more useless partitions than expected. Malware could be involved but unless you want to track down the real issue your thorough efforts are better directed elsewhere. I use a 650 watt power supply with my RTX4060 but it runs more efficiently than most and I do very little gaming. The new 29" monitor displays 2560x1080 resolution for text. Good luck.