I bought my first gaming PC in 2023, and although it has handled my usual games, the experience has gradually become less enjoyable. I mainly play Minecraft, Roblox, and cozy games, but Minecraft now stutters or freezes and I get severe screen tearing. My system has a 30-inch 200 Hz Sceptre monitor, an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, an 8 GB GeForce RTX 4060, 16 GB of RAM, and a 1.36 TB drive with about 1.12 TB already used. I have tried cleaning up the system, checking startup programs, and even performing a factory reset without much improvement. I also switched from HDMI to DisplayPort, but the tearing remained. Could this be caused by the monitor, PC settings, RAM, storage usage, or failing hardware? I would prefer a reasonably priced fix rather than replacing the whole computer.
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Those specifications should easily handle Minecraft, Roblox, and cozy games, so I would not buy a new PC yet. First check whether V-Sync or your monitor's variable-refresh option is enabled. Screen tearing usually means the frame rate and monitor refresh rate are out of sync. Also watch Task Manager while playing to see whether the CPU, GPU, memory, or disk is hitting 100%. Since a factory reset did not help, temperatures, drivers, power delivery, or a component beginning to fail may be more likely than ordinary system clutter.
Your storage is fairly full at roughly 82%, but that alone should not cause severe game freezes. Keeping some free space is still worthwhile, especially if it is an SSD. Minecraft can also use more memory than expected with mods, shaders, texture packs, or large worlds. Moving from 16 GB to 32 GB would be a relatively inexpensive upgrade, but check whether the current RAM is installed as a matched pair and running in dual-channel mode. Confirm the exact memory configuration before buying anything.
Before spending money, reinstall the graphics driver using a clean installation and monitor temperatures and clock speeds while the problem occurs. Try Minecraft with all mods, shaders, and resource packs disabled, then compare it with another game. If the issue continues after a clean operating-system install, the next step is hardware testing rather than a new computer. Check the power supply, reseat the RAM and graphics card, and run memory and storage health tests. Your existing platform is still strong enough that replacing the entire PC would be difficult to justify for these games.
I have already checked startup programs and background processes, and there is very little running. I have not really tried changing V-Sync or variable refresh yet, so I will test those first.