So I’m a gamer and the following are my specs:
Storage:
Two SSD’s: both have about 50 gb free of 250gb total storage
One HDD: 210 gb free of 1TB

CPU: Ryzen 9 5950x
GPU: RTX 3080 Ti
RAM: 32GB

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Synopsis: My computer is weird in the sense that my fps and performance significantly drops if I don’t have task manager open. Weird I know but I’ve done some testing with it running in the backgroun and with it off, MASSIVE difference. Anyways, for the past week, my pc has been performing fine while I play Valorant and The Division 2. I was playing valorant at 250+ Fps and TD2 was about 150+. This problem started two days ago where no matter what I do, even with task manager open, my fps in Valorant has dropped to 100 and The Division 2 has dropped to about 50 fps… I don’t know how to go about fixing this problem and I don’t recall installing anything suspicious that might bog the system down. I’m currently running a virus scan to see if I catch anything but I’m hoping someone here can give me some insight…

  • ZeroSulu@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Your C drive is being hammered (99% utilization), which would most definitely cause stuttering and other weird phenomena.
    Check the other tabs (details in task manager or what the heck it’s called in w11) to figure out which process is hammering your storage.

    Or use hwinfo to log relevant information during gameplay to correlate performance drops.

    • villagernum1@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      https://imgur.com/a/9SGSLb2
      Lists when I had hwinfo up while playing games. not sure what I’m supposed to be looking at unfortunately…

      I played valorant and my Memory seemed to get stuck at 11.9 gb usage out of my available 32…

      • ZeroSulu@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        https://rtech.support/docs/guides/hwinfo.html

        I should maybe not have assumed people read the wiki but they do have a guide for hwinfo, same guide includes stresstesting but you can ignore that section and focus on the video game instead and ignore the prime95/furmark parts.

        Well, 11.9GB out of 32GB RAM usage sounds perfectly normal when playing games, depending on exact game of course.

        • villagernum1@alien.topOPBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Kinda a late reply but what should I be looking at for the file after running a test? Sensors said 0 errors but I’m not sure what else needs to be looked at.

    • villagernum1@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Could my virus scan have used up that C Drive utilization? I’m running two full scans from Malwarebytes and Windows Defender. I’ll try out the hwinfo though once I’m done with my virus scan.