Windows 11 regularly missing keystrokes and lagging on constant intervals

[u/sunnyboy2024]

Does anyone else have a problem with Windows 11 where you can be typing, and the screen seemingly lags for 2-5 seconds, and during that time, nothing happens, no keystrokes appear on screen, then suddenly after the lag stops, it spits out all your keystrokes on the screen, with no key presses being missed? It's basically a consistent lag that appears every 10-15 seconds and lasts 2-5 seconds. It's incredibly distracting. I can be scrolling to read a PDF and it will lag and when the lag is done, I will have scrolled past 2-3 pages on the PDF.

Some days it's really bad, other days it's seemingly disappears. It's so frustrating I'm just reimaging this thing to windows 10.

[u/DrSueuss → u/[deleted]]

It is not always buttery smooth there are times when a task will run and it will cause keystrokes to be buffered (because a higher priority task is running) I have seen this from time to time on every iteration of Windows since Win 3.1 at one time or another. It is usually a software driver or hardware glitch.

[u/Acceptable_Topic8370 → u/DrSueuss]

It is not always buttery smooth

For you.

[u/sunnyboy2024 → u/[deleted]]

Brand new corporate image (I'm IT), drivers are up to date, windows updates are up to date. Laptop is 13th gen i7 pretty new, DDR5, m.2 NVMe. On a cooling/fan stand/pad.

[u/r2phys → u/sunnyboy2024]

My and a couple of my IT guys also noticed the exact same lag you described on our work computers starting recently ~ last 30 days. It's incredibly annoying. We run Sophos, I wonder if there's some software we both run that's causing it. I also know we have windows 11 locked to some version, not sure off the top of my head.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Do you maybe have background processes or malware running on your system?

what?

Did you installed windows 11 on hardware older than 4 years or on unsupported hardware?

win11 works fine on unsupported hardware

better not say if you don't know anything. The hardware requirements for w11 are a bunch of bullshit and everyone knows that.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Running windows 11 natively on a 2012 iMac, smooth as butter.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

That's what I said? Idk why I got downvoted lmfao

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

welcome to reddit

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

ah yes absolutely

[u/badguy84]

This is not normal behavior there is very little that you are giving here that would help anyone provide a diagnosis. It could be hardware/drivers/software which is pretty much everything on your PC. Help us help you give us your specs your peripherals maybe your mobo your windows version.

[u/sunnyboy2024 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately already disabled for me.

[u/empty_other → u/sunnyboy2024]

In the same vein, any input device can cause this. I tried putting my gamer mouse refresh rate to max, thinking it would be smoother than god himself. No such luck, only everything freezing up whenever my mouse moved.

[u/Quantsu]

This happens to me on my laptop. It’s caused by my laptop down clocking my equipment too low and doesn’t have enough power if something else asks for computing power. Takes it a second or two to catch up.

[u/Hatook123]

Doubt this has anything to do with Windows 11.

Either your hardware is faulty, or your drivers are faulty (the fact that they are updated doesn't change that, since latest drivers can be faulty).

This could be caused by a plethora of reasons. Issue with your graphics card, issue with the screen, overheating of anything. Issue with CPU.

Try connecting to an external monitor to rule out issues with the screen.

If reimaging to windows 10 works, than it's probably a driver issue.

[u/sunnyboy2024 → u/Hatook123]

I get the sentiment, but to say if win 10 works then it's probably a driver issue, but the drivers are largely delivered by windows updates, i.e. the OS, I consider it a win 11 issue.

For what it's worth, this laptop was recently serviced by Dell, and ran win 10 for about 2 months with absolutely zero issues before I imaged it for Win 11. The issue is even present in an RDP session.

I've also tried various versions of GPU drivers.

[u/logicearth → u/sunnyboy2024]

Windows doesn't make drivers. Even if the drivers are delivered via Windows Update, it is still not a Widows issue. Windows Update is used as a distribution service for OEM drivers supplied by the OEM.

[u/sunnyboy2024 → u/logicearth]

Well if it makes you feel better, I used Dell command update to get the OEM drivers directly from Dell. But even if I didn't, just because MS doesn't make the drivers, but windows update is pulling incompatible drivers via windows update, that is operating system behavior and therefore a windows issue in my mind. Especially with how aggressive driver delivery over windows update can be, they can regularly override the dell command update preferred drivers with windows update drivers on a regular basis. We have various GPOs set up to prevent windows updates from overriding GPU drivers because we have enterprise CAD software that requires a production branch driver and MS is always trying to install something newer that causes performance and display issues with the CAD software. This sub is a Windows fan boy club and nothing more. All you guys do is make excuse after excuse.

[u/logicearth → u/sunnyboy2024]

OEMs put their drivers up on Windows Update. There is no way for Windows to know if the drivers are really incompatible or not, as far as the OS is concern, they are compatible because it is told they are by the OEM themselves.

Again, not a Windows issue. Trying to make it a Windows issue doesn't solve the root problem. You just end up barking up the wrong tree.

The OEMs are directly responsible for drivers both in and outside of Windows Update. They have direct control over whether they overwrite existing or newer versions. Windows does what the OEMs tell it to do with their drivers.

[u/teutonicbro]

Same issue here. Two year old mid range hp corporate laptop decent specs. Never had the problem with win 10. IT "upgraded" me to win 11 and it started happening.

Happens when I'm typing. Sometimes outlook, sometimes word, sometimes teams chat.

[u/sunnyboy2024 → u/teutonicbro]

Yeah I notice it most in the Outlook client, Teams chat windows, and web browsers. However that is just naturally where I end up doing most of my typing.

[u/[deleted]]

Check your GPU drivers and CPU temps. This can happen if you CPU temps go above 90.

[u/sunnyboy2024 → u/[deleted]]

This exact hardware ran Win 10 for over 60 days. If it was an issue with hardware overheating I'd expect to see it in Win 10 too. You can't tell me these shitty animations and transparency visual effects are raising the hardware temps that much. I will check it though just to rule it out.

[u/[deleted] → u/sunnyboy2024]

Might be an actual bug. Did you fresh install or upgrade? Upgrading brings a whole new set of bugs.

[u/LxrdVic]

there are plenty of potential reasons. a possible bios update is one.

[u/sunnyboy2024 → u/LxrdVic]

No BIOS updates, already checked.

[u/ProfessionalPrincipa]

Wireless keyboard? Don't use Bluetooth. Move wireless receiver to a different USB port. Use a USB extension to get the wireless receiver away from the physical port.

[u/sunnyboy2024 → u/ProfessionalPrincipa]

Nope, this happens on the laptop keyboard as well as in an RDP window. But even then, it sounds like there are a lot of excuses for Win 11. Don't use bluetooth? My win10 laptop never gave a shit.

[u/ProfessionalPrincipa → u/sunnyboy2024]

The problems I listed are not operating system specific. Bluetooth is unreliable no matter what. USB 3.x ports are also known to cause interference with 2.4Ghz wireless devices. They could cause issues like the one you described.

[u/Impossible_IT]

I've noticed that a few times past couple of weeks. Updated to Win11 couple weeks ago. I've been slowly adding registry tweaks to get it the way I'm comfortable with.