Hey everyone! I'm experiencing some annoying frame skips on my gaming PC, and I could really use your insights to figure it out. The skips are subtle but happen frequently enough for me to notice during gaming sessions.
Here's what I've already done to troubleshoot:
- Updated the BIOS
- Cleared out 120GB on my system drive
- Updated and reinstalled both graphics and Wi-Fi drivers, even disabled and enabled them again to check for any corruption
- Tried both wired and wireless connections
- Tested multiple games, but all have the same issue
- Kept an eye on CPU and GPU temperatures, and they seem normal
- Checked CPU and GPU usage, which stays stable while gaming
- Disabled HPET, but no improvement was seen
For a bit more context, here are my specs: I'm running an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X processor and an NVIDIA RTX 3060 graphics card, with a score of 90,000 on Geekbench 6. My system has 32GB of DDR4 RAM at 3600 MHz, and I'm on Windows 11 Home. The motherboard is an ASUS TUF Gaming X570-PRO Wi-Fi, and my main drive is a WD Black SN770 NVMe with 126GB still free, plus I have a Samsung T7 SSD for extra storage.
Would really appreciate any help or advice on this!
2 Answers
Frame skipping often points to monitor issues rather than hardware. It might be worth checking if your monitor is the problem. Maybe try using a secondary monitor?
Are your games running from the internal SSD or an external one? This could make a difference in performance.
I tested both. Valorant is on my internal SSD and CS2 on my external SSD, but the frame skip issue happened with both.
That's a good point! I've noticed the screen seems to pause briefly, so I'll test with my secondary monitor and see if it improves.