Experiencing stuttering while playing games is common. It can affect your performance and enjoyment.
Experiencing stuttering while playing games is common. It can affect your performance and enjoyment.
Hello everyone, I’ll keep it brief. My PC runs an Intel I3 7th Gen, 1 TB HDD, 8 GB RAM, and a Galax GTX 1650. When playing games like God of War 4 or WWE 2K19, FPS drops sharply from 60 to 2-3. Task Manager shows the HDD at full speed while other apps run, possibly causing the HDD to be overloaded. My main concerns are: can I fix this without upgrading? Should I replace the HDD with an SSD and add more RAM? Would that solve the issue? Thanks for your help. @Tristerin
Absolutely, the hard drive is really struggling under the pressure from both the operating system and the game. You’d be better off switching to an SSD for Windows, installing the necessary drivers, and reserving the hard drive just for games. Make sure to enable dual-channel RAM and have more than 8 GB of memory—this setup is quite common these days.
Sounds more like a hardware issue. Either bad RAM or a bad HDD. Probably a bad HDD though. You can use windows resource manager (found in task manager) to monitor ram errors as well as high drive loads. If you have no or just a few ram errors, the HDD might be bad. I would try a surface scan with a SeaTools from Seagate. It will show drive errors. Switching to 2x 8 GB of RAM as well as a boot SSD is surely a good thing but won't fix the issue if games are still on that drive (if that is the culprit).