Games start to micro stutter after sleep mode/shutdown

[Felis Ex Machina]

Hello. I have this very strange problem for some time. It goes like this.

When I install any game it works fine. Stable fps, no lag, just flawless. After a while (recently i discovered it's connected to sleep mode/laptop shutdown) games starts to have this micro stuttering. For example, I installed something and was playing for over a week without shuting down or sleep mode and it worked fine. After putting laptop to sleep and playing again i noticed that games have this micro freeze for about a 0,5-1 second especially when new sound is present and textures started to load very slow. I thought it was hard drive or ram issue but I tried to restart, i purged the ram manualy, i used another hdd, reinstaled the game, changed pagefile size to small or big, disabled superfetch and prefetch. I cleaned up dust, updated all drivers, ( bios, graphics, sound etc. even tried to roll back) and nothing helped. I tried to determine what happens during this lag spike/freezes. It happens in every game on different drivers/setings. Works fine right after instalation (no matter if it's a steam game, gog game or whatever) and then after I put laptop to sleep or shutdown it lags like hell and nothing fixes it.

My specs are

Lenovo Y700-15ISK
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 2.60 GHz
8 GB memory (2x4)
Intel® HD Graphics 530 350 MHz + NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 1097 MHz
Hard drive: WDC WD10SPCX-24HWST1
OS: Windows 10 Home 64 bit

Laptop is plugged in , always on high performance and on desk. Nvidia set as default graphic card. I also have disabled telemetry, disabled windows update, and disabled windows defender and no resource intensive programs in background. Temperatures are acceptable.

Any help? I am out of ideas

[Komrade]

Try disabling fast startup.

Open Power Options
Click Choose what the power buttons do
Under Shutdown settings, uncheck "turn on fast startup"
Save

[Grizzlywer]

WoW I got excactly the same problem. When I start my pc, sometimes/always I get these micro stuttering on every game. if I reduce the shadows and turn on vsync it will fix it a bit.
i5 8600K @ 4.5GHz
Inno3d GTX 1050ti
16 GB @ 3200MHz
SSD
Win10

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Maybe the Windows is doing a virus scan in the background?

[Felis Ex Machina]

Nothing running in the background except system essentials. Also i disable defender and uninstalled anti-virus. I tried to disable "fast startup" ,didn't help.

[Exadron [ITA]]

I have the exact same issue, i tried everything but nothing has changed. Did you find any solution?

[_I_]

disable sleep/standby modes

start -> run/search -> powercfg -h off

[Felis Ex Machina]

Originally posted by Exadron ITA:

I have the exact same issue, i tried everything but nothing has changed. Did you find any solution?

Nope. The only solution which delayed the problem was not turning off my laptop.
Hovewer it still occurs at random. Sometimes games work flawlessly for days just to one day start stuttering for no reason. For example: I played Fallen Order without issues for days but Code Vein was working fine for about a week until it just lagged every few steps.

Some games have problem at startup and after I play them for a while, stuttering stops or is minimal. While other just stutter every time new sound is loaded or new textures.

I tried so many things, I can't even recall what steps I did to minimaze stuttering.
I am pretty sure I turn off, superfetch, purge ram manually, I blocked win 10 updates and telemetry in registry. Turned off turbo in CPU power menagment. That's all I can remember

At this point I gave up. I just play for RNG gods so that games work without problems. It could be some kinda of software issue or maybe hardrive ( hovewer I tried 3 HDD and no difference) or maybe some other kind of problem like sound card. One thing for sure. Never gonna buy Lenovo again.

[ThePrimeDragon]

I'm late AF but it is certainly not a Lenovo issue. Apparently it is related on how drivers reload after waking your PC on Windows.
I am running Windows 11 23H2 on a Ryzen desktop, and I have the same issue you described.

It started not very long ago. Games work fine, this is a very capable PC, but they will start to lag if I game on it after having woken it up.

It is a weird kind of lag though, FPS decrease and average 50, and the game runs at constant 50-51 FPS with constant stutters every microsecond. Only fix I found is restarting the PC.

It is annoying, because I want to access my PC fast, which is why I sleep it. Windows issue. Not Lenovo.

[Iron Knights]

Have you tried disabling Hybernation & Sleep modes altogether ?

[sleid]

Since this thread is somewhat active again I'll add my grain of salt :
Same issue obviously, although I don't see any performance loss on my side, only an internet stutter every second I would say, on any online game I play.
Restarting the computer works but if it wakes up from sleep I'm done for.
Was tweaking a lot of ♥♥♥♥ before this issue appeared because my windows clock was getting a few minutes late, and my computer wouldn't stay in sleep mode.
Still didn't fix the time thing but I think it also happens after a wake up, I didn't have fast boot enabled so what now Windows

[Iron Knights]

If your windows clock starts to fail, your CMOS battery needs replaced. Easier done on older laptops that had standard batteries, not soldered onto MB.

[kingjames488]

it's normal for modern components to stutter and skip around for a bit when changing tasks.

[Rusty]

I have this same issue, while playing Remnant 2 on Steam. I have not tried other games but if my desktop has went to sleep, then I just go ahead and reboot before playing or it will stutter. Non-overclocked Gigabyte z690 aorus pro mb, i7-12700k, gigabyte 3080ti, 32gb kingston fury 4800 ram. I have tried a full uninstall, even cleaning all registry settings, for nvidia and fresh install to no avail. I dont remember having this problem until about 2 months ago, however. Just posting here in case someone can find some commonality or a solution. Luckily rebooting fixes it immediately, so its just a minor annoyance.

[ThePrimeDragon]

Just turn it off when you go to sleep.
I used to leave it on sleep mode but meh, it's not that big of a deal.

If you don't wanna turn it off, just turn off the screens.

[andreasaspenberg575]

you should at least upgrade your ram. 8 gogabytes of ram is very little these days. your hardware gets bottlenecked by your ram. 16 gigabytes is max for that system.