[SOLVED] Why am I stuttering in every game?

[Waylax]

So recently I have purchased a new PC from Amazon. It has an RTX 2060 Super, 8gb DDR4, a 500gb SSD, and an Intel i5-9400F. My old PC had a GTX 970, 16gb DDR3, 1TB HDD, 1TB SSD, and an i5-4440. The old PC was great, but only around a year ago I started to notice it would stutter in games. Eventually I started to notice it more and more, to the point where it was almost unbearable to play any game that I had. Somewhere around that time is also when I bought the monitor that I have now, and here's where things get strange to me.

When I got this PC and loaded up Minecraft and a few other games, it still stuttered. Yes, a brand new PC had the same problem as my old one. On my old PC i've tried to fix this before, and so many times have I failed. I've tried reinstalling Windows, changing the fps cap / vsync, changing the in-game graphics settings, changing the resolution, testing my RAM with MemTest86, removing the two old sticks of RAM, jnstalling Windows to my other SSD and booting from there, unparking cores (they already were), reinstalling the latest Nvidia drivers, changing cpu core affinity, changing process priority, using HDMI instead of VGA, cleaning the dust out of my PC, changing the page file to the recommended value, and of course I eventually ended up buying this new PC.

So far on here, the stuttering doesn't seem as terrible, but it's still present. On this new PC, i've been trying certain things such as capping fps with RTSS, changing graphics settings in games, trying to use "EmptyStandbyList", updating the Nvidia driver, disabling my internet connection temporarily, and turning vsync on / off. Some games are worse than others, it seems - so right now i've been wondering what would cause all of this? Could it actually be something as simple as a monitor issue, or a connection issue? I'm very confused as to why two entirely different systems would suffer from the same type of stuttering. If anyone wants to help, please chime in because I have no clue what to do at this point.

 

[Randi Poling]

Also, maybe make sure that the power connectors for your GPU are completely connected? i thought I heard somewhere in the past that if one of the two connectors are loose, could cause issues with performance?

 

[Waylax]

Also, maybe make sure that the power connectors for your GPU are completely connected? i thought I heard somewhere in the past that if one of the two connectors are loose, could cause issues with performance?

GPU is all good.

 

[Waylax]

I think I fixed it.
I downgraded to Windows 8.1 and i've been playing Battlefield 1 with no stuttering whatsoever.
EDIT: other games still stutter.
I give up.

 

[redacoxo]

I think I fixed it.
I downgraded to Windows 8.1 and i've been playing Battlefield 1 with no stuttering whatsoever.
EDIT: other games still stutter.
I give up.

u still have the same proplem

 

[Dcopymope]

I think I fixed it.
I downgraded to Windows 8.1 and i've been playing Battlefield 1 with no stuttering whatsoever.
EDIT: other games still stutter.
I give up.

Yeah, like I thought you would. I was almost ready to give up myself. Of course none of these nerds bothered to suggest picking apart each service running in the background with a fine toothpick and disabling the ones unneeded. Have you tried it yet? Its worked for me so far. When you type 'services' in the search bar, an app will pop up giving a list of applications running in the background hogging up space.

There is another way you can get to it, but this is the most straightforward way (in windows 10 at least). These services don't show up in the task manager. These are services that come with the O.S. In the I.T profession they call this method device hardening, for the sake of security and performance. Once you're done going through the list, don't just restart your PC, shut it down completely. There is more hardening you can do through the use of firewall rules, but this should solve the stuttering.

 

[rezaka16]

What games?

At first glance, I'd say its your ram. You have only 8gb. For gaming, there are a ton of games that will use upwards of 8gbs of ram at 1080p res.

So when your ram fills up, it's starts to use the swap/page-file, which is on your HD/SSD. Naturally this is much slower than your fast system ram. The effect being that once the ram fills up you get this stuttering and FPS drops. 8gbs used to be the sweet-spot for a gaming machine. That's now 16gb.

For your older system, it's possible if you were playing something like BF5 maxed out settings, then the GTX970 with only 4gbs vram could have caused very similar issues. You had 16gb on the old system, so I don't see that as being the culprit before, although from what you've said, similar results.

Which programs do I turn off? I'm scared I'll turn something off that I wasn't supposed to.

 

[rezaka16]

Yeah, like I thought you would. I was almost ready to give up myself. Of course none of these nerds bothered to suggest picking apart each service running in the background with a fine toothpick and disabling the ones unneeded. Have you tried it yet? Its worked for me so far. When you type 'services' in the search bar, an app will pop up giving a list of applications running in the background hogging up space.

There is another way you can get to it, but this is the most straightforward way (in windows 10 at least). These services don't show up in the task manager. These are services that come with the O.S. In the I.T profession they call this method device hardening, for the sake of security and performance. Once you're done going through the list, don't just restart your PC, shut it down completely. There is more hardening you can do through the use of firewall rules, but this should solve the stuttering.

Which ones do I disable? I'm afraid I'll disable something I shouldn't.

 

[Death395]

I just register to say I found an answer to my problem. I guess it could help someone out there

I set my desktop wallpaper to slideshow mode, while also changing every minute to a new wallpaper. After I decided to play with windowed mode while checking the processes in task manager, I saw Windows Explorer going up from 0 - 0,7 % to 10% every minute, making my games stutter.