Windows 10: Fix Total War Warhammer 3 FPS drop, Lag and Stuttering on PC

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Here is a complete guide to fix Total War Warhammer 3 FPS drop, Lag and Stuttering on Windows 11/ 10 computer. Total war Warhammer 3 is one of the best tactical strategy video games available for PC. However, like any other video game, it has its own shares of problems. But among all, the one that […]

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Random GPU frequency clock spikes cause FPS drops / lag / stuttering

after testing some games (PUBG, Rocket League, GTA V, Rust, Total War Warhammer, Ark) I noticed that I get random GPU frequency core spikes from 1920Mhz to 1520Mhz, this result in stuttering and lag. All drivers are updated, temps are fine, CPU and GPU never go above 60C, games were tested on SSD (primary disk) and on the secondy drive (HDD), all Nvida control panel settings are stock, I also tried different combination from what I've found on the internet but I'm not able to fix this.

Full system specs:
-i5-6600k (no OC, turbo mode enabled as default)
- MSI GTX 1060 6GB GAMING
- ASUS MAXIMUS RANGER VIII
- G.Skill Ripjaws V 3200 DDR4
- Samsung 850 EVO
- WD Caviar Blue 1TB

 

Sudden FPS drop/Stutter

Since 2 days ago, I just turned on my Computer, and it starting having issues while I was playing Witcher 3 (starts with decent fpsm and then very low fps, dropping to 35, then 20, and stopping at 12 or so, in a matter of seconds, in a matter of 1min of starting the game), also stuttering without any high demanding programs, randomly. I was playing at 45-60 fps, without any stutters or sudden fps drop. Have tried other games the issue persists. Even setup everything to low settings.
I have ran several tests with several tools, all seems normal, no sudden memory spikes, or temperature raising out of the ordinary, nothing that would indicate such an fps drop or stuttering.

MSI Afterburner

I also did the reset option on Windows10, completly cleaned out all my personal info from the windows partition.
So at this point, I am not sure if it is a software issue or a hardware issue.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Edit: I kept doing some tests to find out the issue. And this happened before and I was able to replicate it. Same thing happened as before, till I set it up to fullscreen, Alt+Tab from the game and then back to the game, FPS went up to 50 again, stable and good, dropped after a couple of seconds. After a bit it went to 2-5 fps, and I had to shutdown the game, because even the sound was getting messed up.

MSI Afterburner 2

In this image those ups and downs in the GPU usage are when the fps dropped really hard and the sound got messed up.

 

gears of war 4 stutter and fps drops.

hello everyone, I play gears of war 4 on Xbox One and pc, when i first got it and downloaded gears 4 on my pc, it ran smooth as **** for about 3 months. after that 3 months, i noticed that my gpu was not a 100% and that i am getting really bad fps drops.
can someone help me please. i have a Amd fx 8320 ( not oc) 16 gigs of ddr 3 ram, a gtx 1060 6gb and a gigabyte motherboard. thank you for your time guys.