Stutter in games! What causes this, and how do i fix it?

Nikodar

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Hey everyone out there.
My PC build is following:
CPU: Intel I7-6700K 4.0 Ghz (OC to 4.3 Ghz, after i've read about that this stutter might cause the CPU, and it would help a lot with overclocking it. I've overclocked it, and it have helped a bit).
GPU: Asus TURBO GTX 970 OC Edition 4Gb
PSU: Corsair RM750X
MB: Msi Z170A Gaming M7
RAM: 2x8Gb: Corsair Vengenance K2 DDR4 2666
OS-Drive: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
HDD: 2 x Seagate Desktop HDD 2TB 7200RPM
Cooling: Corsair H100i V2
All tied up nicely in a NZXT H440 case, with a NZXT HUE+ :)

Some time ago, i began getting this lag while playing games (stutter), where i was getting these 2-3 seconds (sometimes more or less) freezes, which occours from 1-5 minutes between, which i find really annoying while gaming. I'm playing a lot of CS:GO myself, and when these stutters occour, it sometimes causes me to die in game. It happends in all games i've tried to make these tests on. I test the games on CPU and GPU load, and of course also the FPS (the general average FPS isn't lowered by the loads on CPU and GPU, of what i know by friends with same GPU's and CPU's).
I'm not sure if this is some kind of bottleneck, or a bottleneck "spike" (running at normal speed, then bottlenecks for some seconds, if this is possible to happen). Or can it be my HDD where my games are located, which spikes up to 100% load, every time this stutter occours?

I've tested BF1, BF4, CS:GO, Overwatch and GTA V. Results below.

BF1: Load % on GPU: 99%. Load % on CPU: 65-85% (depends on environment and situation in game). Stutter occour rarely. Loads at stutter: GPU: ~3-15%. CPU: ~5-20%. All video settings maxed out on ULTRA, VSync: off, 1080p, ~80 FPS.

BF4: Load % on GPU: 98%. Load % on CPU: 40-65% (depends on environment and situation in game). Stutter occour every minute. Loads at stutter: GPU: ~1-5%. CPU: ~60-75%. All video settings maxed out on ULTRA, VSync: off, 1080p, ~120 FPS.

CS:GO: Load % on GPU: 30-80% (changes all the time, might be since cs:go doesn't require extreme graphics?). Load on CPU: 25-60% (changes all the time, might not need much CPU power?). Stutter occour every minute in about 20 of the first minutes of the game has been running, after that it occours about every 10 mins. Loads at stutter: GPU: ~0-7%. CPU: ~7-20%. Video settings at this link: imgur (yes i run 4:3 resolution, stretched).

Overwatch: Load % on GPU: 40-70% (different from teamfight to maps). Load on CPU: 20-30% (why so low? Isn't Overwatch a bit more requiring?). There is no stutter, but loading times is much longer, example; stats for my hero loads long time after the background for the page is shown). Video settings is preset to Ultra, VSync off, 1080p, ~70 FPS (actually stable between 69-70 FPS).

GTA V: Load % on GPU: 70-99% (different from terrain, to cities and country). Load on CPU: 50-75% (mostly on 60-70%). Stutter occours every 2 minutes, but after about 10 minutes, it occours rarely. Loads at stutter: GPU: ~0-15%. CPU: ~5-40%. Video settings can be seen here: imgur ~70 FPS (55-130 FPS).

Other games: League of Legends, all settings maxed (AA on, VSync off, Fullscreen), FPS capped to 144 FPS. Stutter occours every 10-20 seconds the first 5-10 minutes, and then they occour every ~3 minutes. (I am not sure about loads, but they shouldn't be higher than the loads on CS:GO, since it requires less than CS:GO to run?).

This stutter also occours in some clients like steam, origin, etc.

Thank you so much for everyone who wants to help me fix my problem, i really appreciate it! :)
 

Rafael Mestdag

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Hi there,

Why don't you sum up your problem in one paragraph or two at most so people feel more like reading it and helping you?
No offence, I'm just trying to help you get your answer.
 

Nikodar

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Thanks for the tip :) It's my first post here, so didn't think about that.
 

Rafael Mestdag

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No problem! ;-)
 

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