Fps drops and stuttering in all games despite replacing PC three times

[Yuiiski]

Hello all, I shall attempt to keep this brief....


Long story short, I got into PC gaming back in 2017 with a pre-built PC, it ran games really bad from the very beginning. I tried to fix it for over a year but nothing worked. I ended up buying another pre-built PC back in 2018, same thing, all games run so bad, constant fps drops and stuttering every few seconds... Move along to June of this year and I decided to build my own PC, all new parts, RTX 2080 SUPER, i9 9900k, 32GB RAM etc..... Runs games terribly just like the two different PCs before it. It can't even run basic games like Minecraft, but again, this affects every single game I have ever tried to play on PC.


Now, considering I have owned three separate PC's with all different parts, its very safe to assume that the parts themselves are fine, so if it's not the parts, what on earth could it be? Because the temps are fine, the PC is working fine only up until I attempt to run any games.

I feel like I have tried almost everything at this point...

- Reinstalled Windows
- Disabled Xbox DVR
- Turned off G-Sync
- Turned of V-Sync
- Low and high in-game graphics
- Disabling that windows feature for fullscreen optimization
- Windowed and Fullscreen mode
- Defragmented SSD
- Nvidia Experience overlay disabled
- Tried Empty Standby List
- Reinstalled drivers with DDU
- Check if my BIOS is on the latest version
- Changed all parts including case three times
- Tried Windows 7 & Windows 8
- Tried both Intel & AMD CPU's


I have tried a lot more things, but the fact that I have basically tried three different PCs at this point, I can't see it being an issue with the PC itself.

[Yuiiski]

ugafan님이 먼저 게시:

pc runs fine during benchmarks, but stutters when playing a game.

have you tested out using a different (non-gaming) mouse?

The mouse is fine, I upgraded my mouse a few months back hoping that was the cause, but it wasn't.

[fildeaux | RIP me/YoungKingDave]

Kind of a necro but I have been facing the same issue for a year and a half until I finally caved and bought a new PC. Somehow I saw the exact same issues as previously. I went back to the guy who I bought it from and confirmed he never encountered anything like that. He did not, and i bought his monitor and am using the same cable as he did. It is somehow STILL stuttering for me after using the same computer and monitor that worked perfectly for him. I know there has been mention of the electricity of certain houses being a factor, and this guy lives maybe 15 minutes from me in the same city and it worked perfectly for him. I am completely out of options and am hoping OP or anyone else finally figured it out.

[Haruspex]

I'm curious if it's something to do with your environment. Can you take the PC to a friend or family member's house and try it out there? Maybe something about your house is causing some kind of issue. High-tension overhead transmission lines. Airport or radio broadcast antenna nearby causing some kind of electrical interference. Neighbor is a mad-scientist Nikola Tesla wannabe performing high-voltage experiments next door. Portal to another dimension in the foundation. Ghosts.

[emoticorpse]

fildeaux | always ggs never ezs님이 먼저 게시:

Kind of a necro but I have been facing the same issue for a year and a half until I finally caved and bought a new PC. Somehow I saw the exact same issues as previously. I went back to the guy who I bought it from and confirmed he never encountered anything like that. He did not, and i bought his monitor and am using the same cable as he did. It is somehow STILL stuttering for me after using the same computer and monitor that worked perfectly for him. I know there has been mention of the electricity of certain houses being a factor, and this guy lives maybe 15 minutes from me in the same city and it worked perfectly for him. I am completely out of options and am hoping OP or anyone else finally figured it out.

I would suggest looking into your installed software. I could have a clean PC and then install one piece of software (not a virus but legitimate software only it sucks) and after that, I can sense my computer went from great to crap. Some of these program are just like cancer. That's one reason I restore/format so much. But there is no way to test software without running into that junk, and once it's on the damage is done a lot of time.

[WOKE[mindVirus]]

Yuiiski님이 먼저 게시:

emoticorpse님이 먼저 게시:

might be a common software install on every build causing the same issue. can you post a thorough list of your running applications/services? post pictures of the ENTIRE thing?

I reinstalled everything from scratch and made sure no weird preinstalled software was installed. All I had installed was Steam, that was it.

A user playing MicroSoft Flight Simulator encountered 'background services' affecting their FPS.
There is a _'work around'_ suggested... by changing Windows10 settings...

"Windows Advanced Settings (Search for "adv" on windows search) > Performance > Advanced > Processor Scheduling and select Background Services > Apply"


NOTE: that I'm NOT an IT expert and I personally have NOT VERIFIED if this works...
but maybe worthy of a try?



check out for full instructions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftFlightSim/comments/pu6jdi/psa_if_you_didnt_do_it_yet_set_windows_to_run_on/

[WOKE[mindVirus]]

ugafan님이 먼저 게시:

plug monitor into gpu

Right, it could be a problem as simple as having monitor plugged into integrated motherboard socket. Instead of HDMI cord plugged into RTX 2080 SUPER graphics card output...

[fildeaux | RIP me/YoungKingDave]

Adding a reply to update my situation. Somebody recommended to make a new local user rather than my synced Microsoft account. I did that and have been using it for a week now with no issues. It checks out how people can experience it across different machines if they are logging into their same Microsoft account as usual. It has to be some kind of setting being synced.

Additionally, in case anyone has rotating wallpapers. This may have an effect as well, I disabled mine. Good luck