r/pcgamingtechsupport

Benchmark: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/73441488

Specs: Device Name aragorn767

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.21 GHz

Installed RAM 32.0 GB

Storage 238 GB SSD SAMSUNG MZVLW256HEHP-00000, 1.82 TB HDD ST2000LX001-1RG174

Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8 GB)

Device ID 44953CCB-5398-4A4B-BB89-625E2E1963D2

Product ID 00326-10000-00000-AA468

System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display

Background: I have an old laptop (8 years old, now). I only play games in which it meets the recommended requirements for. Most of the games I play are ancient (Rome 2 Total War (2011), Skyrim (2011), Doom (2016), Hell Let Loose (2019), (FFVII Reunion (2022)). In the past it played all of these games super smoothly, even with 2K texture mods, and typically on the highest graphic settings.

The problem and failed solutions: Within the last few months I noticed jitters/stuttering every few seconds on Hell Let Loose. I originally believed it was simply due to the game's recent updates, so I lowered my graphics from ultra (which ran 75FPS for the last few years)... to high... to medium... to low... I tried recommended Nvidia settings, and tried different versions of DirectX, with no positive results. Though the overall frame rate increased, the stuttering still occurred every few seconds, making the game unplayable.

I thought it could have been some other background issue. I uninstalled most of the applications that ran in the background (anti-virus, start up applications), cleared the SSD which the games ran on of a lot of storage, and cleared some space on the NVMe that the OS runs on. No improvements.

I updated the GPU driver and made sure it was set to gaming (I did have it set for video editing). Again no improvements. I then assumed that HLL was just now incompatible in its current form with my PC. That's when I learned ALL GAMES HAVE THE EXACT SAME STUTTER. Rome 2, which has always been buttery smooth, Final Fantasy, which I put down a few months ago, but was close to finishing now slide shows every 10 seconds. Freakin' A Dance of Fire and Ice, which should run on a potato, stutters!

EVEN when performing this benchmark, the same stutter occurred throughout. Same intervals, same drops.

WHAT CHANGED AND HOW CAN I FIX IT?

Note: My PC is primarily for audio. I run Pro Tools 2021.7 (perpetual), used my PC as a Dante receiver/transmitter to record 32 track multitrack, and can mix and master extensive audio sessions without any issues at all. This is purely a gaming issue.

Hello, I have a PC with a 4060 and a Ryzen 5 5500 and 16 gigs RAM connected to my TV but it's a 4K TV, will games still look good on it or is the TV overkill for my setup? Sorry if it's a stupid question.

I'm on driver version 26.6.4 and today I updated the bios. I have no way to prove that it was the bios( B650 AORUS ELITE AX V2 F41 version) or driver update because I did not check if everything was working before as I didn't play games during these days and AMD told me to update bios because I had previous problems with display port detection.

I already tried to re-install Adrenaline. What can I do? is it bricked?

I’ve built my computer a good few years ago now (maybe 2022) and have no idea what version of RAM I bought, I know it’s a Corsair Vengeance but have no idea what speed or DDR it would be. I’m trying to see if my RAM has been capped off at factory settings or not in hopes to increase it but have no idea what speed to try and increase it to. I’ve checked task manager and it says it’s speed is 2666 MT/s but I feel like the RAM should be higher than this, just not too sure how much higher.

I was playing a couple of games and I noticed that in all of them, they are very choppy in full screen and even full screen borderless, yet in windowed mode they are smooth like I’d expect. Also, there seems to be this weird yellowish tint that appears on the game after I tab in, like it’s bright white and then yellowish.

Ok, so I really need help on this. Me and my boyfriend are dating for almost 3 years, and he is travelling to another country with his family to commemorate his bday. I have the keys to his apartment and he allowed me to stay here to play games in his desktop pc, cause mine is not that good. I decided to help with his things: his keyboard and mouse were extremely greasy because he never cleans it, and he has said before he wanted to clean it but didnt know how to. So I bought isopropyl alcohol and searched how to clean his keyboard, and did everything right. My problem is that I thought "so, to clean his mouse is just the same, right?". Wrong. As I started to clean, it started to remove a strange layer. At first, I thought it was just A LOT of grease, but as I continue to clean it, I noticed it was that matte soft finish to be more comfortable grippying the mouse. Now Im just scared, cause it was one of those expensive ergonomic mouses and I dont want to upset him, specially as hes taking a really deserved vacation, but at the same time, I dont really know what to do. So reddit, there is a way to solve this issue?

TL;DR: I tried to clean my boyfriends mouse with isopropyl alcohol and completely removed the soft grippy finish from it.

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I'm new to pc gaming and this was literally the first game I purchased and tried to launch... it gives me an error every time. I am not brand new to computers altogether. I did some searching and tried a few things but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get this game to run. I'm pretty certain I copied the error message character for character:

Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue. the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit. the application will close immediately.

InvalidArgument=Value of '0' is not valid for 'index'.

Parameter name: index.