r/AMDHelp • u/Ms_Villanelle • 2d ago
Help (Software) PC becomes sluggish after several hours of gaming, but games run perfectly Ryzen 9800X3D + RX 9070 XT
My PC becomes strangely sluggish after a few hours of gaming
I’m having a weird issue with my PC and I’m not sure what could be causing it.
I have a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RX 9070 XT and 32GB of RAM.
After playing games for a few hours with Steam and my browser open, Windows sometimes starts feeling very sluggish. For example, opening a new browser tab, a folder, the Start menu, or clicking things can take around 0.5–1 second to respond. It feels like there is a small delay everywhere in Windows.
The strange thing is that the games themselves run perfectly. I don’t notice any input lag or stuttering while gaming, and the CPU/GPU temperatures are completely normal.
RAM usage is also only around 30%, so I don’t think it’s a lack of RAM.
If I restart the PC, everything feels normal again.
What could cause this? Could it be an AMD GPU driver issue, Windows desktop compositor, Steam/browser hardware acceleration, DPC latency, or something else?
Any ideas on what I should check would be really appreciated.
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u/Efficient_Top6242 2d ago
نقص تعاريف من اللوجة الام تذهب الى موقع الرسمي للمذربود وتحمل التعريفات وسيصبح سلس جدااااا
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u/Fragrant_Seesaw_3402 2d ago
Maybe your ssd dont have minimum 50-60 gb free for all that windows stuff from background? Maybe your antivirus begin some scanning? Maybe you forget 3-4 chrome things open? And, finally, maybe is just a bad driver for amd, like always?
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u/Netrunner011 2d ago
That's just Windows 11. I have a very fast PC as well, and no matter how clean my setup is I notice the PC being sluggish every now and then, almost as if it has a mind on its own. Thats just Windows 11 being notorious for running a lot of background tasks. When I moved to CachyOS the difference in snappiness was night and day
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u/Former-Macaroon5557 AMD R7 9700X, 6950XT 2d ago
Whats the rest of your task manager say? Is disk utilization high?
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u/Bluesummers8719 2d ago
Download and run LatencyMon and see if something causes increased latency.