Computer Issues

xzi said:

Does anybody on Windows 10 experience microstutters in video playback, both on video players (vlc, etc) but also on browsers? youtube is the only thing that doesn't do this, otherwise I constantly get microstutters like every 5 or so seconds especially on netflix. Games are fine unless I have video playing on my 2nd monitor and then I drop frames drastically.

Absolutely everything is up to date, my internet is more than capable and I've had this problem for about 6 months now. Hardware acceleration makes no difference and different browsers or different video players make no difference. I use two monitors, one being 120hz and the other 60hz. I see a lot of posts about high end cards having this issue with no fix working for myself yet. Am I probably just doomed forever?

specs are
GTX 1080
16gb ram
i7-4690k

It's actually driving me insane.

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I get it too so following

xzi said:

Does anybody on Windows 10 experience microstutters in video playback, both on video players (vlc, etc) but also on browsers? youtube is the only thing that doesn't do this, otherwise I constantly get microstutters like every 5 or so seconds especially on netflix. Games are fine unless I have video playing on my 2nd monitor and then I drop frames drastically.

Absolutely everything is up to date, my internet is more than capable and I've had this problem for about 6 months now. Hardware acceleration makes no difference and different browsers or different video players make no difference. I use two monitors, one being 120hz and the other 60hz. I see a lot of posts about high end cards having this issue with no fix working for myself yet. Am I probably just doomed forever?

specs are
GTX 1080
16gb ram
i7-4690k

It's actually driving me insane.

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I had this exact same issue and pretty much an identical setup. Turning off hardware acceleration wherever I could, setting up gsync to only run on fullscreen, running games in borderless windowed, changing out hdmi/display port cables, I even went so far as to completely reformat my system at one point and none of that shit worked.

What I found was my single GTX 1080 was struggling with managing two different refresh rates to two different monitors so as a test, set your 120hz monitor to 60hz to see if the microstutters go away. In my case they did, which left me with 2 options, run both monitors at identical refresh rates or get a second video card and dedicate each card to a monitor. It drove me nuts for the longest time as well.

That makes sense. Same setup here (144 and ,60)

what xzi is describing sounds more like a missing codec, try installing a codec pack
CCCP - Combined Community Codec Pack

Yeah, I keep hearing problems with high end nvidia but for it to happen to so many people for so long now and still no drivers to fix or anything? This is aids. Codec pack has been installed a long time, and again it's really strange that it's every video source except youtube.

Setting both monitors to 60hz didn't make the problem disappear unfortunately, but I'm half tempted to just get an old shit card just to make this stop happening lol

Okay so this is a weird one.

I was drunk and may or may not have spilled a beer on my k70 keyboard, It went absolutely apeshit, typing a billion miles a minute like it was the computer from Wargames trying to play me in chess.

I unplugged the fucker, broke out an old razer keyboard I had and it worked fine after I restarted my computer, since it was going absolutely apeshit. Before this happened, I was using two monitors and everything was going fine. When I booted back up, only one gave me any love. My number two monitor was dark.

Thinking I maybe damaged the mobo or my vidya card, I went and swapped dvi cables... Lo and behold second monitor would work and first monitor would work no matter what port I plugged them in to. But never both at once. Only one, ever.

Also, I'm now stuck, somehow with a windows theme that is black on black for everything, though that is most definitely not what my present or past themes have ever resembled. i really don't know what's going on. I booted up Vermintide and ran at at my normal frame rate, and CPUID reports the same stats it ever has. I swear, it was just the fucking keyboard

I should also mention this isn't the first time the K70 fucked me over, another one went absolutely berserk.

Both of my monitors are fine and both of the ports on my 1060 are fine. Everything seems to be running well except for the fact that I can't get my second monitor to turn on and somehow my theme has been changed. I have never pirated anything on this computer.

ideas?

Ok, so I fixed the monitor issue, but I am still very curious as to how my goddamn beer-infused keyboard changed my windows theme, I've played a few games just to see how fucked I was and I actually get better FPS now than I did before, despite my settings in said games being the same. The fuck? Do K70s just wig out and do you a solid when you give them alcohol?

Any of our tech savvy folks know how to add firewall exceptions to a modem/router? Specifically ARRIS SURFboard SBG7580AC. I can only seem to find the ability to turn it on or off. I'm still, probably fruitlessly, trying to fix an issue I have playing Lord of the Rings Online

Does the ARRIS SURFboard NAT the ip or issue live addresses?

Anyone know how to stop discord from launching at startup on Windows 7? Shit crashes and slows my start up

Calbiyum said:

Anyone know how to stop discord from launching at startup on Windows 7? Shit crashes and slows my start up

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Msconfig and remove it from startup should help.

a c i d.f l y said:

There's an option in the settings of Discord.... also, Windows fucking 7?

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I knew someone would comment on windows 7. If I could Id still have xp every new windows gets worse and worse

pharmakos said:

My computer is back to running like a pile of shit. I still can't figure out why. It will run great for a few weeks, and then out of nowhere will run horribly for a few weeks. To the point where I can't even run an SNES emulator without serious slowdown and potential crashing. I'm getting so fucking frustrated with it.
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Bought premium Avast and ran a full virus scan. Two viruses found, but neither was a major one. Bought premium MalwareBytes, and regular Spybot, and neither dug up anything that helped. Updated every single one of my drivers. Doubled my RAM. Still, nothing has helped.

Even Windows10 Fresh Start didn't fix it.

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Just get a Win 10 iso and do a wipe/reinstall. Hassle but if you get an iso these days from MS directly at least it's got nearly all the updates included. I'd always wipe if I ever found a virus just to be sure. If you make a usb for install only takes 5-10 mins reinstall.