Recently my PC has become very laggy and sometimes freezes/stutters for a few minutes before returning to normal.
Whether it's opening my browser, opening a new tab, trying to go to a website, playing games, opening programs, etc.
It's not all of the time but it happens too often. Especially playing video games.
For example I was trying to play Rainbow Six Siege and FPS kept dropping from the usual 120-140 to 60-0 and would only stay in that range while the game would freeze. Eventually I just closed the game out but it took forever for it to close out since my PC would stutter and freeze when I tried to alt-tab or open task manager.
I've scanned my PC with Malware Bytes multiple times to check for any possible viruses. There has not been any detections. 90% of my downloads are from Steam or any other game launching app. (Origins, UPlay, etc)
My temperature in my room is fine and the PC's temperatures aren't high at all.
I have also noticed when this happens, my RAM sits at 90% constant, even with all apps closed.
Right now I have discord and microsoft edge open and it's at 95% usage. (15.1/15.9 GB)
SPECS: No overclocks
GPU: 1080 TI
CPU: i7 4790k
RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600 MHz
https://gyazo.com/2c64de629927cf8ae89809e4149a4733.png
Microsoft Edge is the only program using that amount of RAM, everything else is miniscule so I don't know where the other ~14.5 GB of RAM is being used.
If somebody could please help me on what the issue could possibly be and how to test that theory you come up with as I do not feel like throwing money at my PC that's not needed.
I will update this thread with solutions that I have tried whether they are from other users or methods I've tried online.
Whether it's opening my browser, opening a new tab, trying to go to a website, playing games, opening programs, etc.
It's not all of the time but it happens too often. Especially playing video games.
For example I was trying to play Rainbow Six Siege and FPS kept dropping from the usual 120-140 to 60-0 and would only stay in that range while the game would freeze. Eventually I just closed the game out but it took forever for it to close out since my PC would stutter and freeze when I tried to alt-tab or open task manager.
I've scanned my PC with Malware Bytes multiple times to check for any possible viruses. There has not been any detections. 90% of my downloads are from Steam or any other game launching app. (Origins, UPlay, etc)
My temperature in my room is fine and the PC's temperatures aren't high at all.
I have also noticed when this happens, my RAM sits at 90% constant, even with all apps closed.
Right now I have discord and microsoft edge open and it's at 95% usage. (15.1/15.9 GB)
SPECS: No overclocks
GPU: 1080 TI
CPU: i7 4790k
RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600 MHz
https://gyazo.com/2c64de629927cf8ae89809e4149a4733.png
Microsoft Edge is the only program using that amount of RAM, everything else is miniscule so I don't know where the other ~14.5 GB of RAM is being used.
If somebody could please help me on what the issue could possibly be and how to test that theory you come up with as I do not feel like throwing money at my PC that's not needed.
I will update this thread with solutions that I have tried whether they are from other users or methods I've tried online.
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