I'm having a pretty frustrating issue with my high-end PC build, and I'm hoping someone here can help me out. Here are my specs: RTX 5080 OC, Ryzen 7 7800X3D, GIGABYTE B850M AORUS ELITE WIFI6E ICE, Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 RGB (White), and 32GB DDR5 Kingston Fury Beast White RGB EXPO (2x16GB, 6000 MHz, CL30). Since getting this PC, I've been experiencing micro stutters or freezes lasting around 0.5 seconds every 15 to 30 seconds while playing games. I've checked and all my drivers are up to date, including BIOS, chipset, and GPU drivers. The strange thing is that games like League of Legends, For Honor, and Fortnite run fine with no issues, but titles like DayZ, Minecraft, and Sons of the Forest consistently give me these micro stutters, even though I'm running them at over 120 FPS. I've tried various fixes like rolling back the NVIDIA driver, doing a full Windows reset, updating drivers again, uninstalling the Gigabyte Control Center, enabling Global C-State Control in BIOS, disabling G-Sync in the NVIDIA Control Panel, turning off Realtek PCIe Family Controller power saving, setting my Windows power plan to High Performance, lowering my RAM speed from 6000 MHz to 5600 MHz, and checking for updates in Device Manager. I might have missed a few things, but this is pretty much everything I've tested so far. If anyone has experienced similar issues and found a solution, I would really appreciate your insights because at this point, I'm seriously considering selling this PC. Thanks!
3 Answers
If you're using Discord, make sure hardware acceleration is turned off. Sometimes it's on by default and can cause performance issues in games. But if you don't have Discord installed, then you're all set with that!
What kind of SSD are you using? If your storage is slow or having issues, that could potentially cause stuttering in certain games. Make sure you’re using a high-performance SSD!
I'm using a Samsung 990 EVO Plus 2TB, so it should be fast enough.
Hey! Have you tried looking into the software you have running in the background? Sometimes, things like MSI Afterburner can cause issues. Just a thought!
I don't have MSI Afterburner installed, but I’ll double-check what else is running in the background.
Nope, Discord isn't installed at all.