Windows 10: Why does my Windows 11 Laptop keep freezing and stuttering?

Hi,As of a year ago, I've noticed an annoying issue with my laptop Windows 11 OS whereby the cursor will freeze in place and stutter. This causes every other process on the laptop to stop until the stuttering has stopped.Here's everything I have learned about it so far:> The stuttering has gotten worse over time> I can spam the escape key OR windows key to end the stuttering earlier than if I were to just leave it> If I spam the windows key to escape the stuttering, my laptop takes screenshots and saves them to the screenshot folder, indicating that this is perhaps an issue with the

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Win 10 CU (not FCU) stutters and freezes a lot with various operations

I get momentary freezes and stuttering with a range of Windows menu operations. *sarc These are the ones that are top of mind but I'm sure there are others. Win 10 Pro 64, up to date on patches.

• Xing out a FireFox tab
• Click on FILE menu (drop down is delayed)
• FILE > Print (printer list or print menu is delayed)
• Selecting a higher level on the file path in the SAVE menu
• Search menu at bottom of Windows
• Typing in many situations.

Any suggestions? Or this this a known problem in Win 10? I've had this problem for some time, but lately it has gotten me really PO'ed.*Confused

 

Windows 11 stutters on application loading

Hello Smug,

I am returning to mention my recent discoveries regarding stutters on Lenovo Legion 5 15ACH6H. I have so far managed to separate two different issues regarding stutters on Windows 11, which I think are both related to NVIDIA OPTIMUS technology:

Laptop stutters when using certain Windows 11 UI elements

This is the issue mentioned in the original post. After researching on Google I came to the conclusion that it's actually a well documented issue where a dGPU is triggered every time you use some parts of W11 UI, causing 0.5 freeze of the entire OS.

Here you can read the same issue on HP Omen laptop with AMD+NVIDIA GPUs:

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

And here are other topics mentioning the same issue:

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

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

dGPU Switch and Freeze Problem | NVIDIA GeForce Forums

Solved: dGPU Switch and Freeze Problem - Intel Communities

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

The most important is the last link to the thread at Microsoft Community. It speaks of exactly the same issues I am facing on my laptop: 0.5 sec stutter when using wifi icon, right clicking on desktop, locking account, opening browser etc.

This issue was acknowledged by Microsoft and Intel and it was fixed for Intel GPUs. The same issue seems to appear on several AMD+NVIDIA laptops, although I haven't found a single information if this problem was ever fixed by Microsoft+AMD.

Laptop stutters every 10-20 seconds on either AMD GPU or NVIDIA GPU when laptop is unplugged from power

This issue seems to happen on other Lenovo laptops as well and I have also managed to find a topic where it happened on an HP Omen laptop on Windows 10. Basically GPUs cause system stutter every 10-20 seconds. This happens on both GPUs, but in different circumstances:

NVIDIA GPU:

This GPU stutters if you turn on laptop or restart it. Then, if you unplug power and open any application that is set to use NVIDIA GPU (can be even notepad), the laptop will stutter.

AMD GPU:

This is a bit harder to reproduce. You have to let laptop go to sleep and hibernate, then after a few hours wake it up and unplug from power. Then, whenever integrated GPU is used, the OS will stutter every 10-20 seconds. Interesting enough, if you press CTRL+SHIFT+WIN+B to restart GPUs, the stutters will move over to NVIDIA GPU.

This is the thread I mentioned with the same issue:

Windows 10 stuttering, does anyone know how to fix it? : laptops (reddit.com)

Unfortunately it seems there is no answer why this happens and how can this issue be resolved. The author said "My laptop is the 2021 Omen 15 with AMD 5800h so I doubt it's the processor. The same thing happened with my Dell XPS 15 with i7-7700hq".

 

Laptop stutter

Hi,

To further assist you about your laptop being stutter, we suggest that you perform a clean boot to your device. You may refer to this

link for the steps.

Also, make sure that all pending system updates are applied to your computer.

Let us know how it goes.