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Program/games stuttering

by Apr 8, 2018 5:30AM PDT

Hello

Last few days I am experiencing some serious stuttering/hanging for about 10 seconds reglularly especially running games.
As I am not much of a techy I am asking for some pointers here.
Temps seem to be ok
Added the speccy link
Thanks in advance for any help provided.

http://speccy.piriform.com/results/FAieZhjCH75XlE27JtexJym

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That Seagate.
by Forum moderator Apr 8, 2018 8:40AM PDT

Look at the read error rate on the Seagate. Since you have a SSD just unplug the Seagate and see if that helps. This is a very common cause of what may be hard for some to find stuttering. The delays are when these drives are accessed and Windows pretty much waits for the drive to try again and again and ....

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Thanks!
by Vazilii Apr 8, 2018 10:28AM PDT

Yes thank you, that seemed to be the issue.
Need to get me a new hard drive then

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