Odd issue with frame drops and stutter Windows 10

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William1102

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So I’ve installed a 1TB Samsung 860 Evo SSD in my laptop along with an additional 8gb of RAM from an old laptop

However , I’ve been getting lags, stutter and hectic frame drops across the Windows 10 GUI , VLC, YouTube on google chrome basically everywhere even just a click causes frame drops even my YouTube shows a good few dropped frames as well as VLC

I’m not sure what it is as I was running a WD 120gb ssd before and without the additional 8gb of ram and everything was fine

Ran Samsung magician and showed no errors and did a Windows memory test and no errors as well

Specs are :
Intel Core i7 8750H
16GB DDR4 2400
GTX 1050 Ti
1920x1080 screen

Some advise would be appreciated
 
If you open resource manager does the disk read write times look normal. What happens if you view a MP4 video from your disk, read/write times, compare to same file tranfered to a stick, any differences-?

I had such an issue before with youtube(Hardly impossible to watch), MP4 video, everything TOK, but the disk drive read/write time were very long like seconds not milliseconds. It was 100% viweing from a stick, so I replaced the disk, problem solved. The disk passed every test I could find.
I initially thought it was my ADSL faulty causing it.
After replacing the disk I double proof old disk by connecting it via adapter to USB, it still had long read write times, if I remember correctly I saw from 2-18 seconds only one direction, it passed error tests as well, reformatting did not correct the issue as well.
 
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Thanks guys I’ll try all of the above and come back with feedback , regarding the Windows 10 thing , even though the update caused issues with games, when I first installed windows 10 on the same hardware it had no lag like how I’m experiencing now so maybe reinstall an older version of Windows 10 cause it’s currently running the latest
 
I am not sure about windows 10 but on XP when I reached the stage I think I should reinstall the OS system, I usually uninstall HDD, reboot twice to get properly re-installed, I did same for all processors at once, and solved a lot of problems that way, basicly uninstall graphics any driver I might suspect, XP handled that type of a thing very well. So for many years I never reformatted. XP never dropped me doing this, even after I upgraded to new processor for motherboard, everybody said I must reinstall windows then..
 
My gaming performance has actually improved since the recent updates. I'm on a few cumulative Preview updates too.
Graphics also look improved on older games with latest Geforce drivers.
I had an antialiasing issue for months that effected most games and that's resolved too.

This is on an i7 2600K and GTX670.
 
William1102 said:
So I’ve installed a 1TB Samsung 860 Evo SSD in my laptop along with an additional 8gb of RAM from an old laptop

However , I’ve been getting lags, stutter and hectic frame drops across the Windows 10 GUI , VLC, YouTube on google chrome basically everywhere even just a click causes frame drops even my YouTube shows a good few dropped frames as well as VLC

I’m not sure what it is as I was running a WD 120gb ssd before and without the additional 8gb of ram and everything was fine

Ran Samsung magician and showed no errors and did a Windows memory test and no errors as well

Specs are :
Intel Core i7 8750H
16GB DDR4 2400
GTX 1050 Ti
1920x1080 screen

Some advise would be appreciated
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Check your power settings, you may be running on Power Savings mode?
 
What are the RAM sticks clocking at? Sounds like they're not playing nicely with each other.
 
Johnatan56 said:
What are the RAM sticks clocking at? Sounds like they're not playing nicely with each other.
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2400 according to the first post.

Are both the same clock though?
Might be downclocking.
 
|tera| said:
My gaming performance has actually improved since the recent updates. I'm on a few cumulative Preview updates too.
Graphics also look improved on older games with latest Geforce drivers.
I had an antialiasing issue for months that effected most games and that's resolved too.

This is on an i7 2600K and GTX670.
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Never noticed anything like that, no magical appearance & performance improvements. Maybe something was misconfigured on your system.
 
ponder said:
Never noticed anything like that, no magical appearance & performance improvements. Maybe something was misconfigured on your system.
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No it wasn't.

I even started testing modded drivers to find a fix. Gave up after a while. Used DDU too. Installed. Tested. DDU. Repeat. Gave up.

Noticed a few weeks ago there was a new driver. Decided to get it and couldn't believe how everything was improved.
NFS Heat looks completely different on my system. No updates or changes done on it either.

I didn't make any changes on the current drivers that I didn't on the previous lot.
 
Gozzy said:
Check your power settings, you may be running on Power Savings mode
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Well, it was running on high performance a few weeks ago and now I check control panel and balanced is selected and there is no other power plans, had to create a new one and so far everything seems normal :crying: although there is still the odd rare drop but way better than before
 
William1102 said:
Well, it was running on high performance a few weeks ago and now I check control panel and balanced is selected and there is no other power plans, had to create a new one and so far everything seems normal :crying: although there is still the odd rare drop but way better than before
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Edit : well the drops did start again
 
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