Question Stutter issue unlike anything I've dealt with, similar issue fixes don't help.

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This stutter issue is seemed to pop up recently, without doing any hardware, bios, or software changes recently. If I leave me PC running for most of the day (usually doing some game updates, or downloading a game as I have DSL out where I live) and come back to play a game or emulators, I will get the hitches or micro stutters that happen extremely fast but often enough where it becomes annoying and distracting. I believe they are more annoying to me as I enjoy playing CS:GO and Halo competitively and during those quick stutters/hitches it has distracted me from a shot or movement.

Everything I monitor seems normal, during these times it seems like FPS drops a little? Hard to tell though. I do have a couple NVIDIA changes I have done to make Star Citizen run a little better, will list those changes below. My temps are also perfect. Any direction on this would be amazing thank you, my next step is to bring it to a local pc repair place, and I really don't want to that as I feel I am very tech savvy building and diagnosing computer for the last 10 years, but this issue has got me. The only thing I think it could be is my SSD with Windows on it is at ~90% but not sure why it would be an issue after sitting?

PC Specs:
i9 9900k @5ghz
MSI z390 Gaming Pro Carbon AC
Asus ROG RTX 3070
32gb of Corsair 3200 Ram
x2 Samsung 860 Evo SSD

Nvidia Settings:
10gb Shader cache
V Sync fast
Reflex on

Im sure I changed more but not sure if this will help or change outcome of issue.

THANK YOU to anyone who helps take the time to read this all and help. I dont plan on upgrading again till AMD 7000 is out for a bit.
 

Mariusglock

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I used to have these "micro hitches" on my old amd system playing cs:go years ago. I cant really remember what fixed it, but i will try giving some solutions.

# Use v-sync. If you dont want to use v-sync because it increases input lag, atleast cap your games FPS to your monitors refresh rate.

# Give your SSD some breathing space, delete/move unnecesary files to another drive. Delete temp. files.

# Make sure you have your XMP profile activated, so your Ram doesnt run on default something like 2133Mhz.

# Also if you make some changes for a game in nvidia controll panel, make sure you made the change only for the program, not for global settings.

# This one might sound weird, but check whats your "Up Time" on the system, Task manager -> Performance. If you havent restarted(not shutdown) your PC in a long while, it might become somewhat unstable/slower, do that, make sure to restart, not to shutdown.

# FPS games like cs:go are more CPU dependant that GPU, so make sure you have the necesary chipset drivers, and you dont have tons of unecesarry programs running in backround, draining your CPU.

# Complete wipe of GPU drivers, and clean reinstall.

# Play around with game settings, if you have more than 4cores, try enabling multi_core rendering on cs:go. Althou cs:go is more likelly to run smoother on single core, however in some cases this helps.
 
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