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Hello, Jan! Thanks for the help. I've tried some of your recommendations. Here are some of the result from the troubleshooting:
- As with what I've tried before, I did try to reinstall and update my drivers before:
- Graphics driver (swapping from NVIDIA Studio Driver to Game Ready Driver) did not yield any significant improvement.
- Installed the latest Intel Chipset driver from MSI (my motherboard's manufacturer)
- weirdly enough, after I installed the audio driver from MSI (Realtek HD Universal Driver), my audio output device just won't work (I'm using 3.5 audio jack directly to IO panel on the back). This leads me to revert the driver to HD Audio Device from Microsoft.
- Disabled all the start-up apps in the hopes I could single out 1 if there's a problematic program. Restarted Win after that, but didn't see an improvement.
- Used DDU on Safe mode, Clean and Restart, then went back to normal boot to download back the GeForce Experience which manages all NVIDIA's drivers. I installed the latest Game Ready Driver through that software. I did see an improvement in my games as they no longer stutter as often, but only sometimes which I can shrug off as normal loading lag(?). I don't know how normal it was, but it's not as bad as before. What I'm still afraid of, though, is it doesn't seem to impact much on the day-to-day use performance. I'm currently writing this and had a few obvious, half-a-second hiccups that, if it were to happen while I'm working, definitely would be a hindrance, so I continued with your advice.
- Performing a clean boot and disabling all non-MS services seems to make my situation a bit worse. A little bit of context: Before this whole stuttering issue, I was having an issue when I tried to migrate my OS to a new drive. It took a while and it won't just start windows except for the "Start-Up Issues" screen with something about not being able to find "WinLoad.efi." I think the code goes back and forth between 0xcf000000f and 0xc0000098. It says something along the lines of "Boot configuration data doesn't contain valid information for an operating system." I managed to somehow repair it, i don't know how, but trying your advice on cleanboot seems to make that issue reappear, thus why I took a while to connect back to you.
I wasn't able to use the Media Creation tool last night, thus I downloaded the Win11 ISO file, thinking it would be the same. I burned the file on a USB stick, plugged it up, and picked the repair option. I forgot what it says, but I'm pretty sure I picked the Start-Up repair first, thinking it would just repair the start-up problem, but it didn't work. So I decided to just do a reinstallation of Windows, thinking that it has an option to reinstall without losing my files. There are 2 options: upgrade, and custom; but I can't choose the upgrade option. I don't remember what the problem is. After reading somewhere that the custom option can also do the same thing as Upgrade (not removing personal files) I decided to go with that. Only just now was I finally able to boot into Windows, however, it looks like a clean install and I can't find my files anywhere. The partition does seem to be clean reset (the drive is 480gb-ish, and I had 198gb of free space before, diskmgmt only shows the same number of partitions, explorer shows 352gb of free space now). However, on the boot-up screen, it seems there is still an option to boot back to my previous 'broken' Windows, which I hope I'd be able to fix to get all my files and settings, and perhaps return to.
My question now, is, how do I repair, go back, and delete this new Windows? Is going back even possible to get all my files back? Should I just work with this new installation of Windows?
Now I'm trying to create a new Media Creation tool on the USB using the new Windows. Is this the correct path I should take?
Update: Media Creation Tools is having a problem that it doesn't understand while creating an installation. The error code is 0x9031004a - 0xa001b. I decided to go back to burning the Win11 ISO file directly to the USB for now. Both of them are the same thing, right?
Update2: I've went ahead and gave up on trying to recover my old drive. I'm now in the new fresh install of Windows with no data attached to it. Will check again if stutters still happening.
Update3: Some stutters can still be seen happening after installing several of my apps back. I think I'm starting to see which app causes the problem, as the stuttering becomes more prominent the moment after I installed this app. I'll see if I can clean it completely (along with its drivers) to see if it'll fix the problem completely.
Update4: After figuring out the fan on my system isn't fully secured, I secure it back where its temps are dropping to a reasonable number. Still, I am getting stutters worse than before, equal to the first time I got them (audio stutters and obvious half-a-second stutters), most prevalent when I'm just watching YT video. Doesn't appear in games, both light and demanding.
Update5: after days of not getting any answer, I found out that the seconds freezing and audio stutters are the result of a setting in Win. Go to services.msc, look for microsoft account sign in service, turned it on, and voila. Here's where I find the answer.
