System Wide Sluggish-ness

redyashimaru

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Dec 21, 2012
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System:

EVGA GTX 980 SC.
Intel i7 4790k, liquid cooled.
750w PSU.
8GB 1600MHZ Ram.
Giga-byte GA-Z97X Gaming 7 Motherboard.
Windows 10 64 bit Ed. (On 500GB hard drive.)
Two SATA III Hard drives. (One 500gb other 3TB)
Extra notes: Both Steam Link and Computer have a wired connection. Uses an Xbox One Wired Controller.

First, I want to thank you for taking a moment to look at my thread.

So, here is the problem: I'll boot up my computer and everything will play fine. After playing a game for any amount of time (has happened as soon as four hours worth of playing, non-consecutively, or as long as several days without issue) it begins to have this odd lag. More like hitching than lagging, it will run perfectly-stop-resume-stop. It also presents with audio freezing with it. The application will take forever to close, sometimes a message informing me windows 10 has crashed comes up during this. My computer will remain sluggish until I reboot the system, then, once again, plays perfectly.

The games in which this has so far has been Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Star Wars Battlefield, Call of Duty Black Ops III. It is interesting to note that this always happens every time I use the Steam Link. It'll start fine but quickly degrade to unplayability.

I've reinstalled/updated all my drivers, watched temps, everything I can think of at this point. For some reason, I have it in my mind that it is the RAM causing this. At idle I will sometimes find the usage rate at 75%. I have performed several virus scans coming up empty.

Last thing is that I recently replaced my AMD Motherboard and CPU but I did not fresh install windows, I have played twenty-four days with no issues, but if you guys think this is the cause of it then let me know.

Once again thanks for taking the time to read this, I know it's a bit long-winded, but I wanted to be as thorough as possible. Any advice is much appreciated!
 

redyashimaru

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Dec 21, 2012
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Thanks for responding! I have not tried that yet, I will make sure to check that out, thanks for the suggestion!