Question Stuttering in hp laptop

May 30, 2019
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Hi, I have a hp pavilion gaming 15, and in almost all games, even if in games like League of Legends, that are really easy to run because of its requirements, i have micro stutters. It´s like the game stops for half of a second, but it bothers me a lot, it happens randomly, or between cutscenes of the game. My laptop has this:
i5 6300hq
gtx 950m
8 gb ddr3 1600mhz
HDD: toshiba mq01abd100 5400RPM
Because of this problem, i decided to reinstall windows 10 and delete everything.. As soon as it finished, I installed 2 games, League of Legends and Bayonetta. And it worked, at least a day. Because it worked, i decided to install other programs, such as msi afterburner, firefox, nothing really important, i updated w10, drivers, everything. When i played again, the stuttering was there again.
It´s not my internet cause this happens in single player games too, and even if I lower the settings, it happens, I mean it happens in League of Legends.
One thing i´ve noticed is that for example in Bayonetta, if i play one level, it stutters and everything, but if I play that level again just after playing it, it doesn´t stutter. So this makes me thing it may be the HDD, but according to CrystalDiskInfo the HDD is good, and i´ve tested the speed of it, and it has like 95-100 MB/S
I dont think it can be the RAM, since i´ve seen i only use like 4GB or 5GB while I play those games, I mean i wont play battlefield V in this laptop. The temperatures while i play are like 75 °C, the HDD has a temperature of 45 °C. But the stuttering happens just after i begin playing, even if the CPU is at 50 °C. So i dont know what it is. I´ve already put the battery mode in maximum performance mode.
 

mikeywhelan

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Hey Issac,
It's most likely your RAM. The ram in your laptop is pretty outdated and I'm not surprised that it's stuttering. Your laptop probably doesn't support a RAM upgrade, but definitely do look into that.

I'm almost 100% certain that it's a RAM issue.