Windows 10: Issues with stuttering/fps drops

There is a TLDR at the end of this post but please read this thoroughly!



Hi!

Thank you in advance for reading and thinking along with me.



I have some stuttering (no monitor issues) going with my laptop. It happened a few days ago and since then it's becoming really a pain in the ass when gaming. I notice it's happening too when I'm just browsing reddit, watch something on youtube etc. There is a thing that I'm suspicious about and wonder if any of you guys know if that could be the case or if I'm totally in the wrong here.

Before stuttering I occasionally check if my drivers need any updates whatsoever and at one point I was like "Hey, why don't I just download a driverupdater that can scan and install it for me. So I searched on Google and found out about Driver Booster by IObit.

There was a review website that was quite enthusiastic about it and I was like "fuck it". So as I download, scan and install there drivers, all fine and without any issues, I just close my laptop after that and go to sleep. I can't really say that after doing that, that I noticed it immediately because I'm playing GTA 5 lately and for some reason (even though is a 5+ year old game) it runs kinda shit on my laptop. So didn't notice it whatsoever.

But I know when I play Overwatch I rarely have a stutter happens and I get 60+ frames without any issue. That's where I started to notice that once in a while (depends on how long i'm gaming ) my mouse doesn't react the screen freezes BUT the audio still goes on and when I unfreeze it just skips to where I pointed the mouse and everything goes back to the "present of time". I think it has something to with either the drivers that are installed that are unstable or that Driver Booster itself is slowing down my laptop.

For people not familiar with Overwatch, it's an online fps. So I don't have any internet issues.



The things Driver Booster updated was:



AUDIO INPUTS AND OUTPUTS:

- Realtek High Definition Audio



BATTERIES:

- Microsoft Surface ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery



DISPLAY ADAPTERS:

- Intel(R) HD Graphics 630



SOUND, VIDEO AND GAME CONTROLLERS:

- Intel(R) Display Audio

- High Definition Audio Controller



SYSTEM DEVICES:

- Intel(R) 100 Series/C230 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller



MEMORY TECHNOLOGY DEVICES:

- Realtek PCIE CardReader



NETWORK ADAPTERS:

- Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller

- Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168



SYSTEM DEVICES:

- Intel(R) 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family LPC Controller (HM175) - A152

- Intel(R) 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #5 - A114

- Intel(R) 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #7 - A116

- Intel(R) 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 - A110

- Intel(R) 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PMC - A121

- Intel(R) Host Bridge/DRAM Registers - 5910

- Intel(R) Management Engine Interface

- Intel(R) PCIe Controller (x16) - 1901

- Intel(R) Watchdog Timer Driver (Intel(R) WDT)

- Synaptics SMBus Driver





Drivers Driver Booster added:

- Intel(R) Graphics Command Center

- Intel(R) Graphics Control Panel

- Generic volume shadow copy ( I think this is for the function that the Driver Booster can make a backup?)

- Scp Virtual Bus Driver



My specs:

Windows 10 1903

i5-7300HQ

8 GB RAM

GTX 1050



TLDR: After downloading Driver Booster by IObit onto my laptop and scanning and installing drivers, I tend to stutter while gaming. Before the Driver Booster I rarely had a stutter while playing. No internet issues, no background processes that are eating away (AFAIK) and not the worst specs a laptop can have. I think it has to do with the drivers that got installed or the driver booster itself.



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