Windows 10: Display Lagging/Freezing

I own a Surface Book 3 with Windows 10. The current listed display drivers are Intel Iris Plus Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1600 Ti with Max-Q Design. About every few minutes or so, my display freezes up for a couple of seconds. I suspect it is the display and not the whole system because I am often still able to move the mouse, type, open close windows, etc., I just can't see it happening until it catches up and unfreezes. This has been happening for the last year or so and nothing I do seems to fix it. Is there any way to fix this? Any help is appreciated.

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Random lag spikes

Hi,

We would like to know more about your lag issue:

• What browser are you using when you experience a lag?
• Does the lag occur in a particular game?

In the meantime, we suggest you run the System Maintenance troubleshooter. Here are the steps:

• Press Windows Key + X.
• Click on Control Panel.
• Select Troubleshooting.
• On the left pane, click on View All.
• Click on System Maintenance to run the troubleshooter.

Looking forward to your response.

 

all games crash!

I suggest you run rthdribl > http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/archives/rthdribl_1_2.zip
Increase the window size step by step and watch your vga temps permanently.
What happens?
If it crashes, run at stock speeds as suggested before and retry.

P.S.: When your system locks, does the display signal turn off after a time?
Stuttering sound or no sound at all when freezing?
What X1800XT model do you own exactly?

 

all games crash!

ive watch my temps and both the cpu and gpu are within normal ranges. when it freezes it simply freezes the image and stops the sound. i must reboot to get back to windows.