Title says it all. I've been experiencing these game freeze/audio stutter issues for the past week now, even on an old PC build.
I bought all new parts, save for the SSD/HDD, booted up the PC, freezes and stutter still going on.
I reinstalled Win7 3-4 times, then this last go around installed Win8.1 instead.
I even sent my GTX 970 back to Newegg for a free replacement because I was convinced my new GPU was just as fucked as my old GTX 660.
Now I uninstalled Microsoft's auto-installed High Definition Audio Device drivers, disabled it, and prevented it from auto-installing further. Then I unplugged the HDMI chord from my GPU (which was my 2nd monitor), and moved the on-board audio cable to my main monitor.
So now I'm on one, 144Hz monitor, with only the onboard audio cable plugged in, nothing else. Now CS:GO doesn't seem to stutter at all (so far).
Could a fucked up HDMI chord cause this? Is my monitor messed up? I was also experiencing the "driver crashed but restarted itself" error from time to time on my old build and on Win7, but so far on Win8.1 it hasn't occurred.
Edit: My system never freezes when watching streams, other games never have this specific issue, it's literally only CS:GO and just started happening a few patches ago.
I bought all new parts, save for the SSD/HDD, booted up the PC, freezes and stutter still going on.
I reinstalled Win7 3-4 times, then this last go around installed Win8.1 instead.
I even sent my GTX 970 back to Newegg for a free replacement because I was convinced my new GPU was just as fucked as my old GTX 660.
Now I uninstalled Microsoft's auto-installed High Definition Audio Device drivers, disabled it, and prevented it from auto-installing further. Then I unplugged the HDMI chord from my GPU (which was my 2nd monitor), and moved the on-board audio cable to my main monitor.
So now I'm on one, 144Hz monitor, with only the onboard audio cable plugged in, nothing else. Now CS:GO doesn't seem to stutter at all (so far).
Could a fucked up HDMI chord cause this? Is my monitor messed up? I was also experiencing the "driver crashed but restarted itself" error from time to time on my old build and on Win7, but so far on Win8.1 it hasn't occurred.
Edit: My system never freezes when watching streams, other games never have this specific issue, it's literally only CS:GO and just started happening a few patches ago.
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