Games stutter 1/2 seconds HDD spikes

Svilen

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Nov 18, 2016
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Laptop: Asus rog g551jw cn277d
Specs :
CPU: Intel i7 4720hq 2.6-3.6 ghz
GPU: Nvidia GTX 960m 4gb
RAM: 8gb 1600mhz
HDD: 1TB Hitachi (SATA) 5400 rmp
SSD: KIngston 120gb


In basically every single game and just normal idle business I get freezes for 1/2 seconds.
In idle: When I open folders I hear how the hdd starts spinning quickly and the screen freezes then after 1/2 secs the folder opens.
In games: Video below ,,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTr309uLsQc - WoW footage of how the stutter looks like.

NOTE!: THIS STUTTER DOES NOT APPEAR WHILE THE GAME IS ON THE SSD ( where windows is located)

3 times full clean install of windows everything fully formatter
Occurred on all Windows versions
Windows 10 Bulgarian copy
Windows 8.1 from a asus service center
Windows 10 from a asus service center
OS DID NOT FIX THE STUTTER.

Pictures: https://puu.sh/smxXU/87f6ce358a.png
https://puu.sh/smxZ4/9f82bedf83.jpg

Today I tested something. While downloading a torrent of any kind doesn't matter the HDD functions non stop and I can hear it ( While playing wow it is completely silent only when it spikes does it make a quick spinning sound) and I played WOW and the game did not spike( 30 minutes of gameplay ) ?! I have no idea why I paused the torrent download and it started to stutter again.

The stutter appears once every 15-30 seconds.

Other games which stutter CS:GO , League of legends.

Every driver is up to date.

Temperatures are fine - WoW 50-60 celsius on a laptop is good..

Would like to get some help I brought it to an Asus service in Bulgaria here but they gave it to me back the same not fixed.

 

Svilen

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Nov 18, 2016
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I don't know if that would be the problem ( 5400 rpm I mean) because I have a rusty old PC:
Amd athlon II x2 250 3ghz
amd radeon HD 6670
4gb ram 800mhz
Game runs better on that PC than this laptop :D And it has no stutters !
I have warranty but they don't want to change my HDD ... They don't think the problem comes from there.
 
That is kinda odd because it seems like the hard drive is aggressively trying to power itself down. Go into Power Options (in Control Panel) and make sure it is not set to power saving mode. Then check the setting specifically for the hard drive to make sure it is not set to power save mode.


The fact that it you have a 5400RPM hard drive is not a problem. Games run fine on my laptops with those drives. The only time when a game like Skyrim or Fallout 4 would stutter on my laptops is when it needs to load a new area of the world map because that is a huge amount of data that must be loaded. But that does not happen every 15 - 30 seconds as in your case.

My hard drives are set to power down after idling for 1 hour. That definitely will not happen when I play games.
 

Svilen

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Nov 18, 2016
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I already did that. Everything is set on HIGH PERFORMANCE .. I have no clue why this is happening .. The laptop itself costs 1000$ and it's meant for gaming.. I have tried everything to make this laptop go to it's maximum potential and still.. This is so confusing.. Even in the resource monitor it doesn't show what the problem is .. When it stutters nothing changes there..
 

shoottheduke1

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Mar 5, 2017
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Did you find a fix? brand new lappy here and i have the same problem :S