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Hopp! 19 Jun @ 5:58am
Stuttering issues in all games, even menus / RTX 3070 + Ryzen 5 5600 + 32gb RAM
Hello everyone,

I'm reaching out for help after months of frustration with persistent stutters and occasional major frame spikes in all games, including lightweight titles, and even in main menus. I’ve already gone through all the usual solutions and tested my hardware extensively, but the problem still persists.

My System Specs:

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (EVGA)

VBIOS updated

Driver: 566.36

Temps in games: 70–79°C, hotspot up to 89°C

Power draw: 180–200W in games

PCIe Gen3 x16

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 (6 cores, 12 threads)

No overclocking, boost clocks ~4450 MHz

Temps ~60°C under load

RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200MHz (Dual channel)

Storage: Two SSDs (1 NVMe SSD WD Green SN3000 with OS, 1 SATA SSD Apacer AS350)

PSU: 550W

OS: Windows 11 Pro 23H2 22631.5472

Display: 1080p 240Hz (G-SYNC Compatible)

My Problem:

Random stutters and frame drops every few seconds, even when idle in game menus.

In CapFrameX/RTSS I see long frametime spikes (e.g., 14ms → 60ms), then it returns to normal.

In games, I see visible freezing even with >60 FPS in a static menu.

Happens in all games, even lightweight ones.

What I’ve Already Tried:

Software & Drivers

Updated and also rolled back NVIDIA drivers (tried clean installs with DDU in Safe Mode).

Updated VBIOS on GPU

Updated BIOS on motherboard

Latest AMD chipset drivers

Disabled G-SYNC, overlays, Game Bar, Xbox DVR, GeForce Experience

Set "Prefer Maximum Performance" in NVIDIA Control Panel

Disabled PCIe power saving in Windows

Disabled Windows Fast Startup

Set power plan to High Performance

Monitoring & Testing

Ran FurMark, OCCT, 3DMark: no crashes or errors

Temps, clocks, power draw all look healthy

Tested RAM with MemTest86, no errors

No system instability or BSOD

BIOS & Hardware tweaks

Enabled/disabled CPPC, SMT, C-states

Forced PCIe Gen3 manually

What I Observed:

During a captured stutter in Arena Breakout menu, GPU clock dropped from 1935 MHz → 1770 MHz, GPU load dropped from 59% → 4%, power draw fell from 120W → 50W, PCIe Rx/Tx traffic almost disappeared, frame buffer usage dropped to 1.

CPU clocks remained steady (4450 MHz), and no CPU core was maxed out.

During other stutters in games the same thing was observed, always GPU load and other GPU parameters would sag for a second.

It looks like GPU rendering gets "interrupted" or stalls briefly, then resumes.

If anyone has seen similar behavior, I’d greatly appreciate insight. I'm open to advanced troubleshooting steps and can provide logs/screenshots.

Thanks in advance.
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Hopp! 19 Jun @ 6:20am 
Motherboard: TUF GAMING A520M-PLUS II
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Hopp! 19 Jun @ 6:50am 
https://spec-ify.com/profile/a709568e
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Hopp! 19 Jun @ 6:52am 
Video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykSJAOSEw6E&ab_channel=TonyMontana
Example of stuttering: 04:08
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Hopp! 19 Jun @ 7:33am 
PSU: Vinga VPS-550P (550W, 80 PLUS White)
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Hopp! 23 Jun @ 4:31pm 
Replaced the 550W bad power supply with a be quiet! System Power 11 750W, the stuttering did not go away.
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76561198407601200 23 Jun @ 4:54pm 
As someone who has used that chip, I would definitely check your ram timings and not rely on the xmp profile. Once I tightened mine on one of my rigs the stuttering was gone.
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Iceira 24 Jun @ 4:46am 
Sounds like you did all the right things in check this and that. ( make sure you got abouve user point,, not the first time we have seen RAM boost settings now is a issue, then it might have work fine for years. ( i call it a system older pc issue or OS now have a issue with it. )

I and others have seen this before, only you can test this.

Make sure you do not have other system check issue

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth
SFC /Scannow
chkdsk c:
chkdsk d:
chkdsk e:


You lool skilled enough to google how or what this is.

In your case you can hope you have a issue and MS fix it.

Next steap is steam interference issue with somethings that cause system issue.


Aake sure Qulity is set as test
run thing in fastest mode, not all games like that, that is seen as run game in lowest game settings, most run them games today with Qulity or balance mode.

And try fliop flop windows game focus, this is not a joke , in the old dasy we seen game run worse , but that is past OS things has cahnge imo, noe you aim for its ON, so system respond better.

Same goes with set windows to use lesser resources aka fastest and lesser quality in the past. today such adice could be seen as outdated, but as a game most dont care how windows quality is then game is more vital thern system and its graphic.
make sure you do not have graphic work or designer.

Same goes with Nvidia game rdy driver, i assume you know studio driver bs game rdy driver is.

we can all assume you did all right, that not always the case. and yes this is why we post them.

we mean i and other steam user that take alot of things for grandted ofc you did all right..

Dont forget this is a steam user forum and we only have your information.


Feel free to unplug all usb driver so it can reactivated them again, yes its sounds crazy, but we have seen usb auto configuration + its driver get a update ans sometimes some odd issue goes away. ( i doubt its this at all, but you are not the first pc user that tried all, and have nothing left to do in what cause this. )

feel free to reinstall OS even , not the first time issue are gone and cant be reproduces, ppl here have forgot old outdate advice, and think we can solve corrupted system. that lag.
Last edited by Iceira; 24 Jun @ 5:02am
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KaneStar 5 Jul @ 3:12pm 
Yes, I also have the same problem. I have ryzen 5 5600x and 4070. Looks like it's CPU related issue. I tried google and it seems that a lot of 5600 users experienced this problem. Someone at the forum said that he turned back his CPU and recieved a replacement and it worked well without stutters amd microfreezes. Looks like just ♥♥♥♥♥♥ AMD CPU and I didn't find a solution. Sometimes reboot helps, sometimes not, but it never gone completely. Next time i'm going with Intel.
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Dura_Ace 5 Jul @ 4:54pm 
Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:
As someone who has used that chip, I would definitely check your ram timings and not rely on the xmp profile. Once I tightened mine on one of my rigs the stuttering was gone.
I was also lucky enough to get rid of small stuttering with ram timings as well.

Considering all the tried i would go for a complete software and hardware refresh.

Disassemble, new paste everywhere while you are at it. Assemble the rest and reseat everything

New UEFI bios flash. Even if it is the same version. Dont use your old stored one but DL a new copy.

Then try new ram timings

Did you look at USB polling?
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