#Stutter Spikes when playing games or doing basic work.

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grand cedar
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Hi all. I've posted this in other places, but maybe y'all can help me. A few months back I downloaded a driver that caused some major FPS drops. Then, eventually a new driver fixed it. Later on, I downloaded another driver and I've been having stuttering and lag spikes.

I've also tried other tests to see what else could be causing it, yet no dice. I ran memtest86 for 4 passes. Stress tested my GPU and CPU. Tried SFC, DISM, and CHKDSK. The only other reason why I would think it's the GPU is because when this happens, there's a lot of latency and the FPS drop.

If anyone has any ideas, let me know!

finite dock
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none of these tests showed you the temps, did they?

grand cedar
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I did benchmarking with 3DMark among others and the temps all stayed below 50-55°c. Temps haven't been the issue so far it seems.

finite dock
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Going to assume this is a desktop

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Have you tried this yet?

grand cedar
finite dock
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Do you vertically mount your video card?

grand cedar
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Horizontally

finite dock
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This may be a better question:

Can you see your video card fans if you looked at your computer case from the side, straight on?

grand cedar
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No

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They're more uh

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Uno momento

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Looks like that

finite dock
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It looks like you have some other software installed on the PC. Can you list all of them?

grand cedar
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It'll take me a minute, but I gotchu.

grand cedar
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Gonna send them in screenshots.

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finite dock
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Wallpaper Engine

Please recheck if you get the stutters with this app fully closed, or uninstalled. Paused doesn't count.

grand cedar
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So far, no issues. Granted, the app has inactive for only about 10 minutes.

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I think that's what was causing it. I'll have to test it out some more later today and come back with the results.

finite dock
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Yeah, Wallpaper Engine and other live wallpaper stuff, as well as the auto changing background function in Windows, can kill your frames

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Live wallpapers are basically like running a game all the time

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While wallpaper changers, even if brief, will cause the system to spike load there. This isn't a problem if you set it long enough, but it can be problematic if you set it to, for example, once per minute.

grand cedar
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I see. I typically have my stuff running on a loop. Hopefully this is the issue and it's not something else lol. It's been driving me crazy for months.

finite dock
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Been a Wallpaper Engine user for the same duration?

grand cedar
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I've had it for years tbh. I think I might've figured out the issue. Yes, the stuttering went down a lot after uninstalling it. However, I think the fact that I had 4 sticks of RAM in my DDR5 board might've caused some instability as well. I took out two sticks and I'm not having any issues.

grand cedar
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I reseated my RAM and uninstalled WE. So far, no issues.

finite dock
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if you are using 4 sticks on DDR5 many CPU IMCs aren't too up to spec

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if it comes back, consider changing to 2 sticks