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[JakeEh]

Hello,

I recently updated my driver to the newest supported driver for my video card - the one the Adrenalin software recommended. At the time it was causing random frame drops where I would go from ~180 frames to 40 frames which caused a jittery feeling to gameplay. Prior the the driver upgrade I was getting consistent ~240 frames in a League of Legends game.

Given this strange frame issue, I decided to use DDU to uninstall my drivers and go to a previous driver. Each driver I have tried so far, including going back to the newest (now 24.10.1) have all caused issues where mid-game the game will seem to stutter where it stops moving for 1-5s.

I was speculating that this might be a CPU issue, but as far as I know, I haven't updated anything for my CPU.

Drivers I have tried so far:

24.10.1, 24.9.1, 21.12.1, 22.11.2, 23.12.1, 22.q4(?)

My system information is as follows:

Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit

Motehrboard: MS-7C84 (MSI)

Memory: 64GB

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6800

My main monitor is an Alienware monitor that is 240hz. I do have a secondary monitor that is an older 60hz.

The last time I experienced an issue like this I had tried to re-install windows to resolve it. That's not out of the question, but I would love to investigate alternatives before I go ahead and do that.

Note: I wanted to put this within PC Graphics or PC Drivers & Software but there was no option to do so when creating my post.

[mengelag]

Have you gone through your background processes to see if maybe there is something running that's eating up resources or causing the problem? I'd go in and start disabling things that don't need to be running and see if that clears it up

[JakeEh]

I've only really done that through clearly open programs or the system tray. I can give that go though.

Out of curiosity, would you expect something like this to be a GPU or CPU issue? It seems like a CPU issue, but it's strange that it started happening after a GPU update.

[BigAl01]

It could also be a motherboard issue with the PCIe bus.  I would look for an updated motherboard BIOS and install that.