Stuttering in games since Windows 10 Reinstall

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DeanLeitch

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Jun 22, 2016
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Hi all,

Hoping you can help me here.

I've been having stuttering issues when gaming since I've reinstalled WIndows 10 on my SSD.
I've reinstalled my all my drivers and pushed any pending Windows updates.

I get good FPS in every game, that hasn't changed at all, but I seem to be getting constant stuttering, especially when moving the camera.

It's not just games too, my PC in general has seemed a bit unresponsive since the reinstall. It was fine before I reinstalled WIndows.

I have one suspicion, I left my HDD (which I use for my photos and games I don't play as often) connected when I reinstalled my OS. Windows is not installed on it so I don't really see why it would cause problems. It didn't ask me where to install it (I assume it's because it just reinstalled it where Windows was already installed).

What do you guys think?

(PC SPECS):

Asus Strix GTX 1080
i5 7600K @ 3.8GHz
z270 MSI SLI PLUS
16GB RAM
525GB M.2 SSD
1TB HDD
1200W PSU
 
Solution
Did you restart windows yet? Not just shutting down and booting again.

BIOS updates are independent from windows and wouldn´t flash back to an older version while resetting windows.

Clean install via Microsoft media creation tool might help.

Really looks like a driver problem for now.