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PC Stutter on Start-Up & When Using Chrome

Anonymous
2025-02-04T05:35:57+00:00

I've got a weird issue. For the last 3 weeks, when I start up my PC, I'll have inconsistent stutter and lag issue that's immediately apparent. The best way to describe the issue is what happens when I boot up my PC:

  1. Start up PC and wait for login.
  2. Notice the loading icon(s) stutter, but I get to my pin login.
  3. After logging in:
  • 3a [Wallpaper Engine - Steam] --> Live/video wallpapers stutter w/ occasional screen-tearing.
  • 3b [WpE turned OFF] --> Blank background w/ a 3rd chance at screen-tearing or my desk-top icons glitch all over the place.
  1. When I open up Chrome (or Edge), my PC lags with the motion of my mouse, loading in new pages, or when I play a video, the video stutters/lags w/ resolution-glitching.
  2. Restart my PC [MULTIPLE TIMES including hard resets] until the PC runs as normal.

I've done a memory diagnostic that told me nothing, and the troubleshooter "suggestions" has nothing. I've rollbacked and redownloaded the latest windows update and graphic drivers. I haven't double-checked all my physical connections (yet), but everything looks the same.

This is 5 year old rig, w/ the only changes being a new SSD (a year ago) and a new graphics card (last Black Friday). Here's the full specs:

  • Motherboard - MPG X570 Gaming Edge Wifi
  • Processor - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core
  • Drives - Samsung SSD 980 Pro 1TB [I already got the firmware update for this] / ST2000LX001-1RG174 / WDBRPg5000ANC-WRSN
  • Graphics Card - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Like I said, my PC has been running relatively fine for years, and no problems since the graphics card switch, so unless there's a physical issue I'm unaware of, I have no idea what the problem is.

I might be slow in responding, but I appreciate any insight to this problem. Thanks.

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DaveM121 888.7K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2025-02-04T08:09:07+00:00

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

Most likely this is caused by the Nvidia drivers, the best option would be to completely remove the current Nvidia device driver using the widely available free DDU utility, then restart your PC and go to the Nvidia website to download and install a couple of slightly older version of the Nvidia drivers around version 561 to try to find a version that is stable on your system.

A slightly older version of that driver is more stable than the latest version.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-02-10T17:54:26+00:00

    Sorry for the slow response, but I wanted to be sure before replying. I tried your suggestion, though it did give me a scare as after downloading an older driver, my displays were a little wonky. My multiple displays ended up flipped and that was annoying (I have a vertical / columnal setup), and I still was getting stutter. I redownloaded the latest update driver from Nvidia, and after 3-4 straight days, my PC has started up like normal with no problems so far.

    So it seems to a clean restart of the graphics driver (thoroughly w/ the suggested DDU) and redownloading the latest driver seemed to have fixed it. Thanks for the DDU suggestion.

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