I'm asking here because I think it's a Win10/GPU drivers issue, but the exact cause I'm not certain of.
I recently did a clean reinstall of Windows 10, and previously replaced my GPU for a brand new AMD 6600. After the clean install, I started to notice a few issues with stutter in specific games; what will happen is that the display will soft lock for a split second, and the sound output will BZZZZ as if it were also about to hang, but then the system carries on as before, until the next stutter.
And it's very, very specific. To the point that it doesn't happen at all in some games, but will in others, and even in particular locations of others: Such that it will happen in the Character Select screen of "Lord of the Rings Online", but not in the main game at all. I first noticed it in War Thunder, where it happens constantly in gameplay; dropping graphics lessened the severity, but it still happened.
Which leads me to suspect that it's a particular rendering problem; drivers? Missing supporting software in Win10? I'm not sure. I can't recall it happening with the new card in the past, but I'm not certain of which games I've played and when to know if it included the ones a deep dive now shows it happens in.
I've updated all my drivers (motherboard with onboard sound, GPU, flashed the BIOS) and it's not that. It's not the storage hardware directly, as the stutter happens to (and doesn't happen too) games both on the SATA and HDD storage locations. It doesn't happen with standard website use, or media playback (Youtube via Firefox, movies via Windows Media Player). It's games only.
Any tips folks as to where to look next?
System is as follows;
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
Raven Ridge 14nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR4 @ 1197MHz (17-17-17-39)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. A320M-H-CF (AM4)
Display
VG248 on AMD Radeon RX 6600
Current Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
Work Resolution 1920x1040 pixels
Monitor Width 1920
Monitor Height 1080
Monitor BPP 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Frequency 144 Hz
I recently did a clean reinstall of Windows 10, and previously replaced my GPU for a brand new AMD 6600. After the clean install, I started to notice a few issues with stutter in specific games; what will happen is that the display will soft lock for a split second, and the sound output will BZZZZ as if it were also about to hang, but then the system carries on as before, until the next stutter.
And it's very, very specific. To the point that it doesn't happen at all in some games, but will in others, and even in particular locations of others: Such that it will happen in the Character Select screen of "Lord of the Rings Online", but not in the main game at all. I first noticed it in War Thunder, where it happens constantly in gameplay; dropping graphics lessened the severity, but it still happened.
Which leads me to suspect that it's a particular rendering problem; drivers? Missing supporting software in Win10? I'm not sure. I can't recall it happening with the new card in the past, but I'm not certain of which games I've played and when to know if it included the ones a deep dive now shows it happens in.
I've updated all my drivers (motherboard with onboard sound, GPU, flashed the BIOS) and it's not that. It's not the storage hardware directly, as the stutter happens to (and doesn't happen too) games both on the SATA and HDD storage locations. It doesn't happen with standard website use, or media playback (Youtube via Firefox, movies via Windows Media Player). It's games only.
Any tips folks as to where to look next?
System is as follows;
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G
Raven Ridge 14nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR4 @ 1197MHz (17-17-17-39)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. A320M-H-CF (AM4)
Display
VG248 on AMD Radeon RX 6600
Current Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
Work Resolution 1920x1040 pixels
Monitor Width 1920
Monitor Height 1080
Monitor BPP 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Frequency 144 Hz