Major Stuttering While Gaming

CamGaming

Commendable
Oct 25, 2016
9
0
1,510
Ever since about 2 months ago, I've noticed that whenever I'm playing a game, I sometimes get major stutters every few seconds down from 60+ to 2 fps. It has been happening more frequently. It never stutters when doing normal day tasks, just gaming. I built the PC in January, so I wouldn't think it would already be giving out, but I might be wrong. Specs listed below.

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690
CPU Cooler: Corsair H55 Liquid Cooler
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 750 ti Twin Frozr Edition
Motherboard: MSI B85-G43 Gaming Edition
Ram: 8 GB Crucial Ballistix Sport
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB HD
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600w
OS: Windows 10 64 bit

*Notes: I have a suspicion that the problem is either my RAM or HDD, as RAM is at 78% usage idle and the disk sometimes shoots up to 100% while idle as well. CPU stays at about 60-70 degrees Celsius, and the GPU stays at about 20-30 degrees Celsius.
 
Solution
This honestly sounds like you are infected with malicious programming, or have been taken over by a botnet. Id run a rootkit detector, MalwareBytes has one, then run antivirus. If that comes up clean, goto your start button, hit the run command, type in msconfig, head over to boot, and put it in selective startup, load the bare minimums and see if that lowers your utilization any, if your pc starts acting a little more normal you have something in startup causing a problem with your pc. Then its just picking and choosing and restarting till you find what app or program or process is causing strain on your pc and turning it off.

Best of luck!

CamGaming

Commendable
Oct 25, 2016
9
0
1,510


CPU would stay in 32 to 100% range, and whenever the stuttering happened the RAM usage would go above 8 GB. Is there anyway to temporally fix this until I can buy more ram?

 

JakAzz425

Distinguished
Nov 27, 2008
62
0
18,660
This honestly sounds like you are infected with malicious programming, or have been taken over by a botnet. Id run a rootkit detector, MalwareBytes has one, then run antivirus. If that comes up clean, goto your start button, hit the run command, type in msconfig, head over to boot, and put it in selective startup, load the bare minimums and see if that lowers your utilization any, if your pc starts acting a little more normal you have something in startup causing a problem with your pc. Then its just picking and choosing and restarting till you find what app or program or process is causing strain on your pc and turning it off.

Best of luck!
 
Solution