Acer Aspire V3-571G
I5-3210M 2.5Ghz
6GB ram
Geforce 640M 2GB
Windows 8 installed on ssd.
Games on hdd.

Sometimes when I play (doesn't matter what. CS:GO, Amnesia, E.Y.E., Crossout, World of tanks) game freezes for second or two.
On first 3 games I have 60 fps.
Any ideas what can cause those freeze?
I'm thinking about hdd. Notebook is maybe 6 years old already.
Temperatures are ok.

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You ever cleaned it inside?

It can be a number of hardware pieces up till windows just being too cluttered with junk.

4 years ago
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yes. thermal paste is changed
dust cleaned
guess only choise is to format both disk and clean install

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https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskmark/ can run crystal mark info for your drives to test.

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Can be the memory controller. Or you simply running out of VRAM and the game swapping assets.

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amensia made it in 2010. I plyed it on pc with 700mhz and 128 or 256MB gpu :D

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Try disabling superfetch and see how it does

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GOD DAMN, I fucking knew it!

Had the same problem with my gaming setup a few years back.
Recently it popped up again (after I slotted in an old 2TB drive from my previous build), but now I was running win 10, so I couldn't find the "superfetch" in services.
So I figured it was a different problem...

Turns out they renamed it to "Sysmain" in windows 10 !!

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Yea, that superfetch thing can be killer on games, especially if you don't have a ton of ram installed on your system

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Sounds like a memory streaming issue of some sort, so could by your hard drive, RAM or VRAM. Try reformatting, if that doesn't help try removing memory/RAM sticks (you likely have two 3GB ones, so remove the first one and if that doesn't work put the first back in and try with just the second removed). If that still doesn't work you're probably out of luck.

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You should run some kind of monitoring software (I use MSI Afterburner) to record your GPU, CPU, RAM, etc. usage and determine if there are any suspicious spikes. Without such diagnosis anything anyone we can say is pretty much guess-work.

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Is it a hdd or ssd?

If it's an hdd, your drive may have some dead sectors, which can cause incurable micro-stuttering.

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windows on ssd.
games on hdd

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Play from SSD and get rid of HDD.

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Could tell more about how often it freeze? Did u find something same for all freezes (it could be in-game explosions, sound of notebook)?

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The problem is from the video card, more precisely from the video driver.
Try installing an older driver on both video cards and test again.

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more info
https://imgur.com/a/iAJKq5i
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/19486413

tried forcing amnesia to use intergrated GPU.
nothing changed.

Crystal disk infos shows that both ssd and hdd are ok

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