Windows 10: My gaming laptop sometimes freezes / stutters for like a second.

This never happened before i fully factory resetted everything on my laptop. I have added 8gb ram and 500gb SSD before but i dont think thats the issue. Any help?

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Stuttering Every Two Seconds

Every two seconds I get a stutter, the mouse freezes and then jumps forward. Audio stutters, games stutter, everything stutters very briefly (on the order of milliseconds) every two seconds.

This happens every two seconds like clock work. It happens on windows, it happens in browsers, it happens in games.

I've tried updating all the drivers I can find. I've tried a System restore to last month even though the problem just started today. I've tried closing out of programs and disabling various tasks.

I've tried various checks and all come back clean:

• sfc /scannow
• DISM.exe/Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
• CHKDSK /f

Please help!

 

My computer Stutters/Freezes for 0.1 second every 1 second

2 days ago I had installed a nvidia driver update (version 535.98) after that while playing games, making games in unity or watching videos my computer started to stutter for 0.1 seconds every 1 second. Thinking this was a problem of driver I have installed my old nvidia driver which is 3 monts old (version 528.49) and it is still happening.

The stutter is wierd too. Its not a complete freeze like I can move my mouse fine. But most things get a split second freeze. To give some examples:

Games that I play stutter

Games that I make in unity stutter

Google chrome stutters (like while writing this some letters come to screen later some animations like closing tabs stutters)

Youtube stutters by loading every second (my internet is fine this didn't happen before)

Visual studio studders while writing code

But things like spotify music or writing in a note pad is completely fine (Spotify stutters while scrolling or moving through tabs. Makes no diffirence for music)

The other problem might be the empty space left in my ssd. I have a 1tb ssd that has only 45gb of empty space right now. But the last game that I downloaded was about 4-5 days ago so this problem didn't come from this I think.

 

AMD + NVIDIA Laptop Freeze Problem

I am writing a new thread to mention an issue about AMD + NVIDIA laptops using NVIDIA Optimus technology. This seems to be a very old (+8yo!) bug reported first for INTEL + NVIDIA configuration, but it was partially fixed for INTEL by cooperative work between Intel and Microsoft. It doesn't seem to be fixed for AMD though.

Observed issues:

1. Laptops utilizing NVIDIA Optimus technology have 0.5 second stutter on integrated GPU when using particular Windows UI elements:

• Clicking on wifi/speaker/battery icon
  
• Right clicking on Desktop
  
• Using "lock account" option in Start Menu / Your account name
  
• Clicking on Restart/Shutdown in Start Menu
  
• Sometimes when using browser (I can't tell exact moments)
  
• Sometimes when maximizing minimalized apps
  
• Sometimes when changing resolution or opening apps
  

2. Laptops stutter on battery power. Happens on both AMD and NVIDIA, but never on both at the same time. What does it mean:

• Hibernating a laptop and waking it up will most likely make AMD stutter entire system every 10-20 seconds. Turning on NVIDIA-powered app will make stutters disappear for that time.
  
• Turning on or restarting laptop will make NVIDIA GPU stutter every 10-20 seconds when dGPU is used. Turning off an app that requires NVIDIA GPU will make stutters disappear for that time.
  

As you can see from the observed issues, the 1st point is exactly the same issue INTEL+NVIDIA setup laptops had in the past (and partially still have).

This issue was first reported for INTEL here:

[Partially Fixed] Intel + NVIDIA Laptop Freeze Problem - Microsoft Community

dGPU Switch and Freeze Problem | NVIDIA GeForce Forums

Solved: dGPU Switch and Freeze Problem - Intel Communities

But I have also found topics speaking of similar issues on AMD+NVIDIA powered laptops:

HP Omen 15 mouse freeze on Windows 10/11 - HP Support Community - 8223478

Legion-5-15ACH6H-half-second-stutters-when-opening-certain-programs - English Community - LENOVO COMMUNITY

dGPU-wake-up-freeze - English Community - LENOVO COMMUNITY

From what I have seen Lenovo and HP brands are affected by this issue, but it might be way more spread considering this is an NVIDIA Optimus issue with AMD+NVIDIA configuration.

The 0.5 stutter looks like this:

And the stuttering every 10-20 seconds is like this: