Games are stuttering when I play while the internet is turned on

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Smrda030 11 Sep @ 12:11pm

So, like the title says, when I play games while the internet is on. After, let's say 10 or so minutes, games start to stutter, and it's not like all games. Last time I checked, games like Stellar Blade or RE4 remake and Lies of P are doing fine, but some like RDR2 (which worked fine for like 30 hours before) or Alien Isolation are showing those problems. When I disable the net and enter games, they work fine for hours, no hitches or stutters whatsoever.

Does anyone have an idea what could be causing the issues here?

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_I_ 11 Sep @ 3:11pm

can be drivers
update bios and get the latest drivers from the mobo mfg or oem side

wing0zero 11 Sep @ 3:17pm

Only thing I can think of is when connected it's doing some background stuff and taxing it a little more, what's your CPU, GPU and RAM?

Numlock687 11 Sep @ 4:07pm

Beef up your cooling if that doesn't work

Bad 💀 Motha 11 Sep @ 4:34pm

Enable Game Mode
Pause Windows Updates

Smrda030 12 Sep @ 7:01am

Thank you all, for drivers i'm fairly certain that they are up to date won't hurt to take a deeper look of course. As for my specs it's pretty much a mid perhaps even low tier pc with AMD Ryzen 7 5800x, rx-6800 and 16gb of ram. Will give that game mode a look,

Last edited by Smrda030; 12 Sep @ 7:02am

rimfired 12 Sep @ 2:30pm

ive had problems in the past that were resolved by limiting the number of connections or metering the connection or restricting data blah blah .. id experiment with it in internet settings .. sometimes issues can pop up even with other apps when theres too much going on at once .. too many connections ..

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Tiberius 12 Sep @ 2:45pm

Your pc is downloading or updating something probably. Open task manager and see which program is hogging your cpu, storage, and internet connection

Dongmyeong 12 Sep @ 2:46pm

Next time this happens, open the task manager and sort by Network Utilisation. That might show you which program or process is acting up.

matt 12 Sep @ 3:43pm

Please don't turn off the internet. I'm using it right now.

What does AMD Software say? Anything interesting? Also see if the Windows task manager shows anything running in the background. Could be malware, I guess.

Numlock687 12 Sep @ 6:03pm

Run malwarebytes/anti-virus. You may have a infection

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Bad 💀 Motha 12 Sep @ 8:41pm

Are you using WiFi? If using 5Ghz trying switching it over to 2.4Ghz and see if any changes.

But yea people asking these questions really need to learn more about how to use Task Manager and Resource Monitor and understand everything that's running in the background.

Force disable things that the OS will eat up your connection with. Maybe even use ShutUp10 to do this with if that helps. Yes that app is perfectly safe for Win11.

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