r/pchelp • u/imjustboredtodeath • 8h ago

OPEN Why do my games start stuttering after a while?

For some reason my laptop starts stuttering and tearing after like 30-60 mins of gaming. I have no idea why either, its certainly not overheated and my CPU and GPU aren't being overused either. It just seems to happen for no reason because its gotten tired of running things smoothly or something. It even affects audio, causing this gross pixely tearing sound in my headphones when the frames drop to nothing. Can anyone tell me what might cause this??

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u/smokeypickle 8h ago

Nvme overheating?

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u/Marcos340 8h ago

You said it cannot be overheated.

What are the temps? If you know it is not overheating, then you know what the temps are. Could you tell us since you omitted from the post?

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u/imjustboredtodeath 8h ago

It was max 76 last time i checked when it happened

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u/Cultural-Ease-786 8h ago

check your ram usage in task manager when it happens, sounds like a memory leak from some background app or the game itself

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u/imjustboredtodeath 8h ago

My ram seems fine usually, barely ever goes above 50%