FPS stuttering and 100% disk

UngusBungus

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Howdy,
So, I'm having an issue where whenever I play games on my PC they often run at a constant 60 FPS but they suffer from a great deal of stuttering.
For example, when I play BF1 the frame rate stays at (usually) 60 FPS when I first launch it and get into a game.
Then after so many the game just refuses to work correctly and stutters constantly making the game almost unplayable. The same thing happens overtime on GTA V as well but interestingly on Dark Souls 3 it usually runs well and the stuttering is far less frequent and noticeable.
Furthermore, as of recent, I noticed that my disk usage was extremely high when doing very little, I have tried changing options ans tweaking settings in "services.msc" to no avail. However these generally occur when launching a game such as BF1, I'm not sure if this is normal or an issue but its gets to around 100%.
Another thing to mention is that these results are never consistent and the game will sometimes work well and then just die and fail to run well at all.
I have taken into consideration the possibility of a bottle neck but I'm not sure how likely that is to be with my specs of the PC in mind.

here is my PC - https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/psB3NN

Please also take into consideration the fact that I'm not very experienced with PCs after only switching to them from console at Christmas 2016. Any help would be much appreciated seen as at the moment I'm incredibly desperate for a solution.
Thank you.
 
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Aghhh~

What you're saying sounds like and overheating problem, I've had the same problem with laptops in the past. I would start the game nicely and then after prolongued gaming the performance would drop to unplayable levels.
So maybe check the temp of your PC and if its bad just reapply some termal paste.

If its not the heat then my only suggestion is to go in services.msc like you mentioned and make sure that Background Inteligence Transfer Services and Superfetch are Disable! as well as go into msconfig - Services - and uncheck Windows Event Log and Windows Event Collector.

Hope that helps!

MnMWizard

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Disk usage should almost never be at %100 in mid-game, it's either a windows service that shouldn't be running or another program. If you start getting stuttering try opening task manager and ending the task that's using that much disk (unless its the game).
 

ConfusedOrange

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Aghhh~

What you're saying sounds like and overheating problem, I've had the same problem with laptops in the past. I would start the game nicely and then after prolongued gaming the performance would drop to unplayable levels.
So maybe check the temp of your PC and if its bad just reapply some termal paste.

If its not the heat then my only suggestion is to go in services.msc like you mentioned and make sure that Background Inteligence Transfer Services and Superfetch are Disable! as well as go into msconfig - Services - and uncheck Windows Event Log and Windows Event Collector.

Hope that helps!
 
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UngusBungus

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Thank you for the advice, sadly I have many of the hard hitting tasks disabled anyway but thank you for your advice.
 

UngusBungus

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Thanks for the help, I don't think it was overheating but your second suggestion has definitely made the game and others playable for a long period of time. While the stutters are not completely gone they're much less frequent.
Cheers!

On a side note since I only have 1TB of storage that is nigh-on full would getting 2TB of HDD space improve preformance at all?
 

ConfusedOrange

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I couldn't be sure but i'm rocking a solid 250GB of storage on my bad boy and I'm near always 10 gb away from full yet it never seemed to affect my performace hahaha.... God I need more space....

Keep your driver space in the blue area and you'll be peachy.

By the way another thing you could do to help give you more stability is to do a fresh instalation of your graphix card driver.

Just follow this Tutorial!! Here, it helps to get rid of unwanted drivers in your system.

Glad I could help, now if only my pc would stop stuttering Aghhh~