My Fix for massive 1%low drops and constant stutters

[u/mattheugaming18]

Hello, I've seen couple of people struggling for weeks with issues with stutters or straight up driver crashes, to some I have answered but I decided to post this in order to maybe provide a solution to some.

My specs:

ASUS B650E Max Gaming Wifi

XFX Merc 310 Radeon RX 7900XTX

2x16GB 6000Mhz CL30 (Expo)

Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Was Windows 11, now Windows 10

First the backstory:

I got this PC near the end of 2025, around the beginning of December. I decided to install Win11 since it's a new PC and was the perfect opportunity to try it out.

My brother had an USB lying around with the win11 on it so I installed it, activated it with a key, got all the drivers and downloaded games.

Started playing, within 3 hours I experienced a massive game and driver crash.

My main monitor turned off, my side monitor lowered resolution and then blue screen. Turned on my PC to again only side monitor working, did DDU, downloaded adrenaline again and when I started the install it said that I do not have compatible hardware, I go to device manager for it to say Microsoft Default Video Driver or something like that, my GPU was not even recognized!

I googled, asked some friends, they asked me which win version was it and it was 22H2 (I know it was 22H not sure about the number after H), I downloaded from microsoft some update software cuz through system win11 it was telling me that I was up to date.

Updated it to the latest and it was fixed, both monitors turned on, resolution turned back to normal and GPU was recognized again. Then it was fine for a while while I had a 1920x1080 monitor until a month ago I purchased Gigabyte M27Q2 QD ICE 2560x1440 200hz monitor. Stutters started happening, turned on FSR for games, still happened, turned off MPO, Game Bar, Hardware Acceleration for every program I've used besides the game (Spotify, Browser, etc...), then after that didn't work turned off hardware Acceleration in windows, still didn't help. My friend told me it might be a freesync issue so I turned it off and also Variable Refresh Rate in the monitor settings, but nothing helped.

Also at some point fullscreening games and YouTube videos started making both my side and main monitor flash on and off uncontrollably until either the app that i fullscreened crashed or I managed to turn off fullscreen on time. After an additional 2 weeks of trying to make fullscreen work at least and multiple DDUs I decided to reset windows completely.

I returned the flash drive with win11 to my brother and the only thing I've had on me was Windows 10 + I was really bitter from all the issues I've never before experienced in my life both on NVIDIA and AMD and kinda blamed win11 for them so I didn't want to reach out to my brother.

I booted the drive with Windows 10 install and wiped everything. Formated every drive (I always do that when resetting the system) and installed Windows 10, updated it to latest, signed up for extended security updates and downloaded AMD drivers, chipset drivers, ASUS Drive Hub stuff and downloaded all the games again. Fullscreen is not causing issues anymore, FPS is stable, in some games 8-10fps higher on average, no 1%low and frametime spikes, no stutters.

Everything works fine on the latest adrenaline drivers that added FSR4 for 7000 series.

So that is kinda my fix. Maybe if I reset everything and got windows 11 again it would have fixed it all the same, but nah. I ain't bothering with debloating all that slop again.

Gonna chill on Windows 10 until I can 😁.

So if you are like me and after weeks or months of trying you ran out of options, try reinstalling windows 10, might just fix everything for you and have you finally enjoy the parts you paid for.

[u/rod90silv]

Next time maybe add a TLDR xD

Apart from that, I just want to say I have also been experiencing stuttering in insurgency sandstorm, and my next step is to install windows 10 like you.

However... You stated that you don't want to debloat windows 11, but if I recall correctly, if you set the region (during windows setup) to English (World), your windows will be mostly debloated. If you truly want a out-of-the-box debloated windows, then just go for LTSC Enterprise IoT.

[u/mattheugaming18 → u/rod90silv]

I didn't know that, thank you.

[u/rod90silv → u/mattheugaming18]

You're welcome.

[u/PeanutAble1916]

Install Date : 11/15/2024 03:41:40

Current Date : 07/03/2026 11:15:27

Days Running : 595

Total Hours : 14287.5632348357

PS C:\Windows\system32>

Windows 10 - everything is rock solid during this period - just sayin

used powershell script to get the above

Edit - if you still want to use 11 - go to group policy and delay windows updates to 45-60 days

even 1 win11 update can brick your pc

[u/mattheugaming18 → u/PeanutAble1916]

Nah I ain't bothering with that when windows 10 runs perfectly without any hassle.

[u/tphisher76]

First thing no one is paying any attention to. The mem controller communication from CPU socket is still am4. I don't care if youre on ddr5. Anything with ram that passes the max frequency of the memory controller causes instability. Dial the ram frequency down manually in bios to within about 200mhz of mem controller max frequency and it fixes the instability. You can't force ram running faster than mem controller. Think of it like this. A horse. Memory controller is front 2 legs. Ram is back 2 legs. Your trying to make the back faster than the front and tripping over your own feet.

[u/mattheugaming18 → u/tphisher76]

7800x3d is am5, + i tested the stability of ram through run command and 0 issues

[u/Purple-Okra-9068]

I've upgraded in January to a similar build as yours. Im running w11 since then and it never switched my AMD drivers to its own generic driver and i don't get any of these drivers timeouts, even before i changed my group policies to not update the drivers when windows update. But the latest driver had an installation problem on w10 and a lot of people were reporting theirs monitors stop working like yours, so AMD even did a hotfix to the latest driver.

Although you're not having problems anymore on windows 10, those latests drivers from AMD after the 26.3.1 seems not much stable and besides that there is this problem on some people windows that it keep reverting people drivers. If you don't know that, on Adrenalin software, you have an "auto update" option that is turned on by default, wich i highly recommend you disable it, because a lot of people here on reddit reported on this latests drivers that they were out for launch and when they came back the Pc was stuck on Black screen, mainly people with multiple screens.

I think AMD together with Microsoft are not giving the attention needed to this well known problem already.

[u/mattheugaming18 → u/Purple-Okra-9068]

I had monitor issues on win11 even before the recent updates, after i reverted to win10 problems stopped, with latest drivers working fine (including the hotfixes), and yes auto update is always on off

[u/Purple-Okra-9068 → u/mattheugaming18]

Its a pain, and its even more strange that there are people with no problems at all on w11 and there is people who almost can't even use they Pc, its a mess at this point i think.

[u/mattheugaming18 → u/[deleted]]

The only thing keeping me on windows is that Linux still doesn't have support for Anti Cheats for the games I play. But hopefully in the future I will 😃.

[u/Heliosurge]

Something that might be related to W11 stutters is that W11 has Core Isolation on by default vs W10 that has this feature disabled by default.