Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Core i7-920
HD 4890
3x2GB RAM
WD Caviar Black 750
Alright so basically my computer appears to run flawlessly for the first few hours after start up. After having been on for a few hours I start to notice a few stutters in CounterStrike:Source despite the FPS being anywhere from 300-1000. These are extremely small stutters and most people probably wouldn't notice them, but I'm very sensitive to stuttering. Ill leave the computer on overnight and the next day the stuttering gets even worse. One time I came back from a trip and it felt as if the game would switch off between running at 5 FPS and 300.
At first I decided the problem was CounterStrike itself, but restarting the game or steam did nothing nor did a reinstall of the OS. Today I noticed that the entire Windows UI seems to stutter as well so I am confident that the problem is on a driver or OS level.
Task Manager shows nothing out of the ordinary with CPU usage being either 0% or 1%, and no programs hogging memory. Ive tried multiple video card drivers, including ones that I am 100% sure were stable at a previous date. Oh yea, I forgot to mention that a couple of months ago this problem didn't exist.
I could be a naturefag and turn my computer off overnight, but this problem is very perplexing and I hate to know that something in my computer is not operating perfectly. If you guys know of any solutions, or good benchmarks suites to test some of the subsystems it would be greatly appreciated
Core i7-920
HD 4890
3x2GB RAM
WD Caviar Black 750
Alright so basically my computer appears to run flawlessly for the first few hours after start up. After having been on for a few hours I start to notice a few stutters in CounterStrike:Source despite the FPS being anywhere from 300-1000. These are extremely small stutters and most people probably wouldn't notice them, but I'm very sensitive to stuttering. Ill leave the computer on overnight and the next day the stuttering gets even worse. One time I came back from a trip and it felt as if the game would switch off between running at 5 FPS and 300.
At first I decided the problem was CounterStrike itself, but restarting the game or steam did nothing nor did a reinstall of the OS. Today I noticed that the entire Windows UI seems to stutter as well so I am confident that the problem is on a driver or OS level.
Task Manager shows nothing out of the ordinary with CPU usage being either 0% or 1%, and no programs hogging memory. Ive tried multiple video card drivers, including ones that I am 100% sure were stable at a previous date. Oh yea, I forgot to mention that a couple of months ago this problem didn't exist.
I could be a naturefag and turn my computer off overnight, but this problem is very perplexing and I hate to know that something in my computer is not operating perfectly. If you guys know of any solutions, or good benchmarks suites to test some of the subsystems it would be greatly appreciated
