This happens with every game that I play on this computer, including games that I play on emulators. This computer is one that I’m proud of, but something I notice about it is this strange stuttering issue. The issue can be recreated very consistently…

I’ll start playing a game, play for five minutes, or an hour, doesn’t matter, there’s no stuttering. If I keep the game running but I’m not actually playing it for more than ten? Fifteen minutes? For example browsing Lemmy, when I come back to the game there will be stuttering, and while the stuttering happens I can hear a kind of rumbling sound coming from the tower. The stuttering doesn’t seem to properly resolve even after long periods of playing and my current way of fixing this is to close the game and open the game again. This computer is old but I do remember this happening when it was new and I’m wondering if this is normal/what the issue is? I tried Googling this, but the results I got were about a computer stuttering in general, the issue I’m experiencing is limited to games.

Just in case, here’s my specs!

  • 16 GB RAM

  • Intel Core i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60 GHz

  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (11 GB)

  • Windows 10 64-bit

  • 2 HDD’s (2 TB total space)

Thanks!

  • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    2 days ago

    You could add an SSD specifically to serve as a pagefile location and nothing else, in which case you could just get a small cheap one (a 32GB SSD would be more than enough for 16GB of RAM)

    Honestly, assuming OP isn’t somewhere that the market for PC parts is extremely wonky compared to the US, if you’re going to get an SSD you might as well go ahead and get one big enough to serve as a boot drive. A 256gb SATA SSD is ~$20, and should be fine for that purpose. It probably won’t have DRAM at that price point, but realistically it’s not really necessary and still going to be a night and day upgrade over an HDD.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Sure but this still requires going through the reinstallation process, compared to just plugging an NVMe drive into a PCIe adapter and sticking it into an unused slot - done in 5 minutes. Plus maybe another 5 minutes to configure Windows Virtual Memory to only use that drive.

      • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 days ago

        Reinstalling windows is hardly a laborious task most of the time, but even then my main point was that buying a 32GB SSD is pointless when you can get much larger ones for extremely cheap. Even if you don’t use it as a boot drive, more fast storage is never going to be a downside.