#Bad stuttering noticeable in some games (not an issue on other PCs)

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olive trout
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I've been noticing having stuttering and short freezes (half a second at most) so far in 2 games where I know it doesn't happen on other systems.

For one, when I let my PC run for a bit longer without restarting, I notice the game Minecraft stuttering more and more. When I first start my PC it runs with no issues at all, but if I don't restart my PC for some time, it starts stuttering a lot. This can happen after a few hours of no restart but mostly happens after me not restarting my PC for a few days, since I mostly put it in energy saving mode.

Second game that has stuttering is osu!lazer. I opened an issue for that on the games issue tracker since I believe it is the games fault but I want to know how likely that truly is. In this game it doesn't matter if I recently restarted my PC or not, it immediately stutters no matter what. The game dev said to me that this is caused by an external application but even when I closed all other running programs, the issue still happens. The weird thing here is that I have no issues with any stuttering in their previous game osu!stable, which is basically the same game, but the old version.

Can these 2 issues be truly related in any way?
And the main question is, is something wrong with my PC? I just recently reinstalled Windows 11 so I highly doubt it's because of something I have installed.

A weird thing I noticed is that my RAM can't run on XMP and randomly will give me Bluescreens or PC crashes only when XMP is on, so I just have it turned off with no issues since I did that.

My PC specs are these:
Windows 11
4080 FE
13700KF (I have replaced this one previously since I thought it might cause issues, the new one got to me around 6 months ago and is running the latest BIOS update)
48GB RAM (CMK48GX5M2B7000C40)
4TB SSD (SN850X)

sullen sphinx
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What games?

olive trout
sullen sphinx
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I see a wall of text, I skim. Both games are low graphical fidelity, so the likely culprit will be cpu / ram. So long as you are on a stable gpu driver that is. You can always ddu your driver and install the same again to be sure, especially if you use nvidia app to download from. Its known to cause issues.

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@olive trout

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Also, when you say stuttering, what are we talking about here. Random lockups? Quarter second freezes and continues right back up. Blackscreen flickering? What?

olive trout
sullen sphinx
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Im saying never use the nvidia app to install drivers, period. Download manually.

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Step 1, download the gpu driver for your gpu.

Step 2, download DDU (https://www.guru3d.com/download/display-driver-uninstaller-download/), and extract it to your desktop into its own folder.

Step 3, disconnect from the internet entirelly.

Step 4, boot into safe mode.

Step 5, run ddu. Keep all options at default. Select the gpu driver (intel, nvidia, amd) then click, "clean and restart" the recomended option.

Step 6, when pc boots, install that gpu driver you downloaded prior.

Step 7, after the gpu driver installs, hook back to the internet.

olive trout
sullen sphinx
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Well, doing it this method eliminates the possibility of it being a gpu driver