Micro-Stuttering in All Games

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rmc008

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I've always had the notion that there was something wrong with my laptop, and I felt that maybe there was this slight stutter (literally) once per second, but I kind of shrugged it off. Games are still playable, but it makes the experience a lot less enjoyable. When I played on my friends Alienware M17x, his gameplay was smooth as butter. Ironically, he has the same chipset that I do on my custom Origin PC laptop, so I have no idea what the heck is going on. By the way, I updated my video card graphics to the latest, so updating graphics most likely won't fix this issue.

Here's my laptop specs:

Operating System
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1

CPU
Intel Core i7 3720QM @ 2.60GHz 145 °F
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology

RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
CLEVO P15xEMx (SOCKET 0) 146 °F

Graphics
Intel HD Graphics 4000 (CLEVO/KAPOK Computer)
2048MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 7970M (CLEVO/KAPOK Computer)
Generic PnP Monitor (1920x1080@60Hz)
ASUS VH232H (1920x1080@60Hz)

Hard Drives
238GB Samsung SSD PM830 256GB (SSD)
466GB Seagate ST9500423AS (SATA) 101 °F

Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected

Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio

P.S.: I am running Avast! Anti-Virus. I don't know if this causes stutter issues in games.

I would seriously appreciate some help! This issue is really beginning to piss me off!

- Rob
 
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Make sure that the switchable graphics are kicking in. If the computer doesn't kick everything over to the dedicated GPU you will experience stutter and lag. Hope this helps. :)
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May have items in startup that are interfereing, can clean things out through MSCONFIG, but a better option may be a program like WinPatrol, which lets you 'manage' the startup programs, can simply disable them rather than remove (which may call for a reinstall if it's a needed item) them through MSCONFIG, and can later re-enable them
 
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Make sure that the switchable graphics are kicking in. If the computer doesn't kick everything over to the dedicated GPU you will experience stutter and lag. Hope this helps. :)
 
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rmc008

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They are definitely kicking in!
http://cl.ly/image/1F2Z3o2W242p



I do not think it has anything to do with startup programs, my computer should be sufficiently quick enough to run the programs I have running in the background.
 
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