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.
Could be a driver that has similarly gone haywire because of Windows. I’m experiencing the same kind of hitching when playing games on the Framework Desktop and my Event Viewer has lots of events for mtkwecx, USB-USBHUB3, and TPM.
The description for Event ID 1003 from source mtkwecx cannot be found.
USB device draining system power when system is idle. USB Device: VID: 0x46D PID: 0xAC4 REV: 0x900 Removal action failed: QueryRemovalInitiated Re-enumerating a DRIPS blocking device that was previously removed when exiting low power epoch.
The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) hardware failed to execute a TPM command.
Which I have seen a video in which the internal Wi-Fi card on a recent Windows update on 24H2 is causing weird behavior if the internal Wi-Fi card is in use. I would hate to have to find a USB WiFi dongle and disable the internal Wi-Fi card in the bios to stray away from these unplayable hitches until a new driver bundle or Wi-Fi driver is released.
In the past, I had been getting these random unplayable hitches while playing games and thought it was that I downloaded the AMD drivers on AMD’s own website after using the driver bundle. I’ve went ahead and used AMD cleanup and re-ran the driver bundle and it wouldn’t hitch at all for a day or two, then seemingly Windows does an update to a driver in the background and I’m hitching in game play again.
Sorry for not mentioning this (I kinda forgot about this post). I seem to have largely solved this issue by running Display Driver Uninstaller in Window’s Safe mode and setting it to not automatically update the driver. Then install the Framework driver bundle. Adjusting AMD graphics settings may be needed depending on the game and reboot every so often (good habit for Windows anyway) as graphics drivers may have memory leaks.
I don’t know if this will solve your issue though as it sounds a bit different (as well as happening on a completely different model).