Question Stuttering across PC, especially when loading anything or booting up a game.

[bentheblobfish]

Hi all.
In the past months, my PC has been experiencing stuttering across the entire PC, especially when loading into areas in games. In games, when starting a multiplayer match and loading into the map or just loading into games in general, the stutter is fairly long. sometimes, when booting up a game from desktop, my pc can freeze for up to 5-10 seconds.

I think this could have something to do with a very high number of hard pagefaults. I can fairly consistently get 1000-2000 hard pagefaults when opening up chrome, for example (based on readings from latencymon). There might be a slight hitch when I do this as well. When launching games, it varies, however in performance monitor when launching fortnite (the worst game I have tested) i have seen it be 100,000+ hard page faults a second.

I have seen moderately high DPC latency in latencymon (up to 1500, give or take) from the video driver as well. from what I understand, DPC latency and hard pagefaults go hand in hand, but I could be wrong.

I have replaced every component in the PC except for the GPU and the PSU attempting to fix this. This includes a fresh install of windows on an SSD.
Thanks in advance.

 

[bentheblobfish]

Are you working on this IN the case or on the bench/countertop/table etc.?

I'd really recommend benching things and with minimal hardware attached. Literally, ONLY what is necessary to determine it is or is not still doing, whatever it's doing.

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it is in the case, but again, i have already used system in the minium spec configuration

 

[Darkbreeze]

Ok