Help me get rid of stuttering lag on Dota 2

[tech 10]

I am getting a choppy, stuttering lag when playing Dota 2 on steam. I would describe the lag as subtle, micropauses occuring w/i the game. I also notice, even after a fresh reformatting of windows 10, that it itself lags--it starts up smoothly, but takes a while opening applications, even simple applications like google chrome. (E.g., when opening chrome, it takes 5 seconds before the initial search page has loaded).

So I'm not sure if the lag has to do w/ windows 10, steam, dota 2, or a combination.

Things I've tried resulting in no resolution:
*Reformatting Windows
*Uninstalling/Re-installing steam/dota 2 several times.
*Decreases in-game graphics (i.e. high performance vs high resolution)
*Ensuring all drivers are up to date
*Reverting graphics driver to previous version
*Disabling unnecessary windows background applications
*Ensuring computer is set to high performance, both CPU and graphics
*Ensured no packet loss present
*There's probably more I'm forgetting : ). . .I Would say any popular idea of decreasing latency on windows 10/steam easily accessible via a google search I've tried. Absolutely NOTHING is helping.

I don't know much about computers--I built this one thru the help of this website--but I'm wondering if maybe I didn't do something right lol--and I say that b/c I've always built my own computer and I've always had a little bit of stutter lag. Although i will say with every other computer I've built, upon a reformat, it opened applications, including chrome, VERY quickly and seamlessly, whereas this windows 10 seems to be exceptionally laggy. Also, I had another operating system on this one, maybe windows 8, and didn't notice the same lag.

I've included a link to my specifications below--there are pictures showing hardware of computer + task manager operations. I notice my disk will reach 99% sometimes--things like "Superfetch," "Steam Client Bootstrapper" and something else I'm forgetting, will bump it up to 99%. I'm thinking the problem may revolve around this, but am unsure.

https://ibb.co/album/jywQaa (this link should bring up all specifications; if not, here's a quick run-down).
CPU: Intel Core i3 4150
Motherboard: ASROCK H81M-HDS
Memory: DDR3 8GB
Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
(More detailed info found in the link with pictures).


Lastly, one thing I've never understood is how to understand whether your graphics card is sufficient for a particular game. It's easy with CPU--they give you a minimum, and then I assume ifi you're above that minimum processing speed, you're fine; however, with a graphics card; in this case, dota 2, they specify "nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600," and my graphic card is AMD R9 200--I've no idea what any of their numbers mean.

[flya00]

That's happens in every device in my house now it's so weird, especially my Xbox ill hear stuff then it will go and crash go home screen and then audio will come back.

Make sure everything looks right in your PC.
Even if you don't know much you can tell if something isn't right.

When did this happen?
Make sure you monitor is plugged into GPU not motherboard.
Your specs are good, you should expect a bit of lag but that's all with those specs.
Do all games do this.

You can check GPU comparison by doing this.
Go to userbenchmark website then click GPU then compare and click on the bar atop of the gpu on the left side of your screen then write your GPU if it doesn't come up select a similar model to yours and the right side bar, just right to the GPU you want to compare yours too, there will be a percentage, under both of the GPUs picture the more percentage means that much more better than other one.

[pmg75]

Check your internal cabling, I had various pauses before and I replaced SATA cables it it's been fine ever since.