Question Spotify and specific video playing services causing computer to stutter

ABigGoofyGamer181

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Feb 16, 2021
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Stutters only last a minute after starting spotify or playing a video. Stutters will occur when Spotify starts, if Spotify plays a song with a looping video on it, or when specific video services like Crunchyroll start playing a show. Issue happens on desktop apps and web apps. They don't occur when gaming or during benchmarks. Issue appears to get better when I disconnect monitors (I have a 3 monitor setup). Issue became noticeable after I moved my computer across my room to install a new desk. Don't know if they were happening before or not.

Specs:

GPU: 3070 fe
CPU: ryzen 5 5600x
RAM: 32 gigs of tridentz ram at 3600mhz
MOBO: asus b550 wifi
PSU: corsair 650 watt gold rated psu
STORAGE: Seagate 2tb hdd, samsung m.2 500gb (windows drive), samsung 1tb ssd, samsung 500 gb ssd.

Things I've tried:

DDU and reinstall graphics drivers
reseat ram and gpu
uninstall spotify
check for mobo updates
update bios
use windows reset
swapping video cables around
switching from display port to hdmi on one of the monitors (my old config)

I'm completely out of ideas on how I can fix this. Can anyone help me figure out what's going on?
 

KingLoki

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Jul 10, 2024
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Set it up to stutter and open task manager and watch the performance monitor to see what your hardware is doing during those times, cpu load, ram etc and also look at the processes and there load and memory usage to see if any are unusally high.
 

ABigGoofyGamer181

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Feb 16, 2021
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Set it up to stutter and open task manager and watch the performance monitor to see what your hardware is doing during those times, cpu load, ram etc and also look at the processes and there load and memory usage to see if any are unusally high.
Did that, my ram usage sits at about 30%. and the CPU activity varies between 20 - 30%. Nothing out of the ordinary for my computer, I run wallpaper engine when idle