Ignore the fortnite, I was playing it for an esports class I’m using to round out my credit hours.
But this, THIS ANNOYING stutter has been happening for like 2 years now, the entire computer, video, audio, will lock up for like 2 seconds and it happens like once a day, twice if it’s feeling spicy.
I’ve looked into so many logging programs but I cannot for the life of me nail this one down, any ideas? This may be my only chance to squash it for good
I had something similar happen once because I had a hard drive that had set itself to automatically turn off to save power after X amount of inactivity, and my computer would briefly lock up for a few seconds every hour or so when my search indexer or what-have-you tried to access it and it powered itself back on.
Adding to this, I had to run both Windows and Linux from a USB-connected m.2 SSD for a while, and noticed similar patterns, checking the disk (or its connection) is probably a good clue.
If you’re not seeing anything in the event viewer at that time and it happens once per day I’d assume you have something like norton antivirus running or Mcafee.
No anti viruses, and it could be in the event viewer and I’ve just not caught it or known what to look for, it’s a lot of data to shift through
You would be specifically looking for timestamps at the time it happened. The rest can be ignored. A lot of it can be ignored however.
How’s the eSports class tho??
At 44s
Sometimes EAC can cause this.
I don’t know how but it’s possible there is a mismatch between your EAC version installed and the one the game expects causing stuttering when it logs the errors.
I experienced this with The Finals and the devs resolved with a patch that reconciled the EAC version.
Maybe unrelated but worth a check maybe. Microsoft office click-to-run would just suddenly eat up half of my cpu utilization at random times and for no apparent reason, the only reason i knew it was happening is because I have my fans set on the more aggressive side and could hear them preparing for take off while I was doing something minimal like watching YouTube. It is possible to disable this but it turns back on anytime there is an update and i got annoyed with that so I just uninstalled Microsoft office and it hasn’t happened since. Ryzen 7 7800x3d 32 gig ram
“On tape”?!? Man, you must have been desperate to track this down!!
update: i’m starting to think its something related to AMD watchdog, what i’m thinking is happening is the rx 6700 xt is not responding within a specified period of time and its forcing a gpu restart
not sure what to do with that information though
I had this happen to me too with an AMD card. I tried:
- Updating the BIOS
- Updating Windows
- Updating video drivers
- Unplugging all unused USB devices
- Tried the beta gaming video drivers
- Tried the studio video drivers
- Updated the CPU/chipset driver
- Updated the SSD firmware
- Uninstalled a bunch of programs
- Reinstalled Windows from the factory recovery
- Reinstalled Windows from Microsoft’s USB tool
- Swapped my UPS for regular surge protector
Finally in frustration, i disassembed the computer completely. When i was taking it apart, I noticed something that I couldn’t see from the outside: That one of the motherboard offset screws was stripped and not fully seated. And, because this screw was next to the PCIE slot the graphics card plugged into, the motherboard was slightly warped upwards by a millimeter or two, and prevented the video card from seating fully. I replaced the stripped screw, put the computer back together, with the video card now seated snugly in the PCIE slot.
And the random stuttering was finally GONE!
Maybe you can start at the bottom of my list and work your way up to save time…
Will definitely try this
