kee413
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Hello everyone. At the behest of my husband, I'm making a thread here. I'm beyond frustrated and upset, and I don't think I'll find help here, but it's worth a shot, right? Supposedly you folks are the best free help there is.
For about 8-10 months, I've been struggling with momentary "lag" moments on my PC. Usually while watching a YouTube video on my second monitor in Chrome, and playing a game on my main monitor. (World of Warcraft, ESO, Elite: Dangerous)
Now, it seems to happen even while I'm just gaming, with nothing else but Discord up.
It happens as follows: My mouse begins to lag and move slowly, Windows slooooows down, until it's like molasses, and my sound crackles and skips and lags. I lose framerate, but there's no graphical tearing or anything. The fan on my CPU cooler (Corsair H60) slows down. This lasts for about 30 seconds to 1 minute, before resuming normal operation, and my cooler fan picking back up.
Lately however, it has begun also BSODing after these lag attacks. I've followed the instructions for a BSOD post on these forums, so those files are attached.
I've noticed that Windows Management Instrumentation Service, and audiodg.exe seem to eat up my CPU when I check the task manager when it's bogging/lagging. I also suspect Corsair Utility Engine of some foul play, but I've had it bog down even when this program is uninstalled completely.
EDIT: I've also noticed that my disk usage goes to 100% when opening a game or Chrome. Is this normal? A friend told me to stop and disable Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) in Services, so I've done this. Seeing what happens now.
Here's what I have already done for troubleshooting:
For about 8-10 months, I've been struggling with momentary "lag" moments on my PC. Usually while watching a YouTube video on my second monitor in Chrome, and playing a game on my main monitor. (World of Warcraft, ESO, Elite: Dangerous)
Now, it seems to happen even while I'm just gaming, with nothing else but Discord up.
It happens as follows: My mouse begins to lag and move slowly, Windows slooooows down, until it's like molasses, and my sound crackles and skips and lags. I lose framerate, but there's no graphical tearing or anything. The fan on my CPU cooler (Corsair H60) slows down. This lasts for about 30 seconds to 1 minute, before resuming normal operation, and my cooler fan picking back up.
Lately however, it has begun also BSODing after these lag attacks. I've followed the instructions for a BSOD post on these forums, so those files are attached.
I've noticed that Windows Management Instrumentation Service, and audiodg.exe seem to eat up my CPU when I check the task manager when it's bogging/lagging. I also suspect Corsair Utility Engine of some foul play, but I've had it bog down even when this program is uninstalled completely.
EDIT: I've also noticed that my disk usage goes to 100% when opening a game or Chrome. Is this normal? A friend told me to stop and disable Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) in Services, so I've done this. Seeing what happens now.
Here's what I have already done for troubleshooting:
- Bought a new harddrive (we thought it could be that) and installed Windows 8 fresh on it. Completed all updates, now running Windows 8.1
- Replaced the SATA cable on my harddrive.
- Checked the integrity on the new drive. Solid. (on Feb. 13th, 2018)
- Run Windows Defender and Microsoft Safety Scanner. Clean.
- Run Memtest. Clean.
- Disabled Iphelper, superfetch, set Windows Update to only search for but not download updates.
- Updated all of my drivers using AVG Driver Updater (ouch, that $30 price tag...)
- Tried "stress testing" (running a game and watching a video) with my Corsair VOID RGB wireless headset and without.
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