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Sorry for the kind of long post, but I wanted to detail what I had done so far to fix the issue.
Under almost any sort of high stress situation, as far as I can tell, my computer will experience System Interrupts at 100% which is causing periods of unresponsiveness. I first noticed this during a 3D application. Playing certain games on the system was causing it to sometimes happen. So I figured it might be a video card driver issue, those certainly aren't uncommon and there was a new one available. So I updated it, and that didn't solve the issue. I tried rolling back to a previous driver as well with no luck.
So I moved on to audio drivers. I'm just using a Realtek driver for my built in motherboard's sound chip. I already had the latest on my motherboard's website but just for the heck of it I also checked the motherboard's auto updating program which said there was a new one, so I updated that. That caused other issues, so I removed that and tried uninstalling all Realtek provided drivers and just using the driver provided by Windows. None of that solved the issue.
So I figured I'd do some actual investigation, since that didn't seem to be doing anything. Running LatencyMon gave me results that looked as such: &
So since it said ndis.sys was the main issue I was thinking it was a network driver. Alrighty. I tried uninstalling my current Realtek based network drivers and using the built in Windows ones. No luck. I tried getting the most recent ones from my motherboard manufacturer. That also didn't make any noticeable change as far as I can tell.
So now I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do next. Here is a Windows Performance Recorder log of my CPU usage while playing a game to try to stress it out a bit. PHOENIX.03-02-2019.04-13-11.etl It certainly seems to have caused the issue during this time, but I'm a little lost as to what to do now.
Even while uploading the WPR log my system interrupts bumped up to 97% usage for a bit. I had no sound or 3D application running at the time, so it does seem quite possible for it to be a network driver issue I suppose.
One last thing of note is that whenever I open up Task Manager to check my System Interrupts it seems to calm down quite quickly. I'm guessing because it's putting less resources into the game or other process due to it no longer being the focus, but that's just a guess.
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Under almost any sort of high stress situation, as far as I can tell, my computer will experience System Interrupts at 100% which is causing periods of unresponsiveness. I first noticed this during a 3D application. Playing certain games on the system was causing it to sometimes happen. So I figured it might be a video card driver issue, those certainly aren't uncommon and there was a new one available. So I updated it, and that didn't solve the issue. I tried rolling back to a previous driver as well with no luck.
So I moved on to audio drivers. I'm just using a Realtek driver for my built in motherboard's sound chip. I already had the latest on my motherboard's website but just for the heck of it I also checked the motherboard's auto updating program which said there was a new one, so I updated that. That caused other issues, so I removed that and tried uninstalling all Realtek provided drivers and just using the driver provided by Windows. None of that solved the issue.
So I figured I'd do some actual investigation, since that didn't seem to be doing anything. Running LatencyMon gave me results that looked as such: &
So since it said ndis.sys was the main issue I was thinking it was a network driver. Alrighty. I tried uninstalling my current Realtek based network drivers and using the built in Windows ones. No luck. I tried getting the most recent ones from my motherboard manufacturer. That also didn't make any noticeable change as far as I can tell.
So now I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do next. Here is a Windows Performance Recorder log of my CPU usage while playing a game to try to stress it out a bit. PHOENIX.03-02-2019.04-13-11.etl It certainly seems to have caused the issue during this time, but I'm a little lost as to what to do now.
Even while uploading the WPR log my system interrupts bumped up to 97% usage for a bit. I had no sound or 3D application running at the time, so it does seem quite possible for it to be a network driver issue I suppose.
One last thing of note is that whenever I open up Task Manager to check my System Interrupts it seems to calm down quite quickly. I'm guessing because it's putting less resources into the game or other process due to it no longer being the focus, but that's just a guess.
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