Framework 16 w/ Rx 7700S, latest Windows 11
This seems to be a recurring problem with my machine. When playing games or just using the dGPU I have constant hitches and stutters every few seconds, some of which are a second long or more. Every game or 3D application seems affected and they are naturally pretty unplayable/unusable. Rebooting has no effect. Reinstalling the Framework driver bundle has no effect, changing graphics settings doesn’t seem to help. I’ve seemingly done everything short of reinstalling Windows. I upgraded my RAM and SSD but Memtest86 found no problems and the SSD seems fine too.
Also whenever a hitch occurs, GPU utilization in Task Manager drops to zero.
Curiously the problems seem to occasionally vanish only to recur a couple weeks later. I’m starting to suspect some sort of hardware issue with my dGPU (as integrated graphics seems unaffected) but don’t know how to diagnose further.