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Tomanov
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Feb 18, 2026

Massive sitemwide stutter and frame drops

Hi everyone. for the past 6 month since i build the system i have been experiencing issues with it, like VGA debug showing every few boots or kernel power 41 error, however the most recent one being FPS drops and system stutter even while idle out of nowhere witch have always been there but worsened with the latest 5070 drivers, that's why i downloaded latencymon. Unfortunately i have no idea how to make sense out of the summary it gave me so I'm posting it here. if anyone is willing to help out I'm be very happy! I have gone trough numerous troubleshooting steps including full windows reinstall and installing only the latest drivers for everything, i have also tryed replacing the psu with a 1000W one but the issue remains.

 

Here are the results and my pc specs:

 

GPU-MSI SHADOW 2x RTX 5070

CPU-I7 14700k

RAM-Corsair vengeance 32gb ddr5

MOBO: Asus TUF z790 BTF WiFi 7

SSD-P310 1tb

PSU-MSI MAG 850w

 

CONCLUSION

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Your system appears to be having trouble handling real-time audio and other tasks. You are likely to experience buffer underruns appearing as drop outs, clicks or pops. One or more DPC routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. One problem may be related to power management, disable CPU throttling settings in Control Panel and BIOS setup. Check for BIOS updates.

LatencyMon has been analyzing your system for 0:16:21 (h:mm:ss) on all processors.

 

 

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SYSTEM INFORMATION

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Computer name: MIDAS

OS version: Windows 11, 10.0, version 2009, build: 26200 (x64)

Hardware: System Product Name, ASUS

BIOS: 1825

CPU: GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700K

Logical processors: 28

Processor groups: 1

Processor group size: 28

RAM: 32451 MB total

 

 

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CPU SPEED

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Reported CPU speed (WMI): 340 MHz

Reported CPU speed (registry): 3418 MHz

 

Note: reported execution times may be calculated based on a fixed reported CPU speed. Disable variable speed settings like Intel Speed Step and AMD Cool N Quiet in the BIOS setup for more accurate results.

 

 

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MEASURED INTERRUPT TO USER PROCESS LATENCIES

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The interrupt to process latency reflects the measured interval that a usermode process needed to respond to a hardware request from the moment the interrupt service routine started execution. This includes the scheduling and execution of a DPC routine, the signaling of an event and the waking up of a usermode thread from an idle wait state in response to that event.

 

Highest measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 3702.0

Average measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 12.211401

 

Highest measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 328.50

Average measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 4.000333

 

 

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REPORTED ISRs

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Interrupt service routines are routines installed by the OS and device drivers that execute in response to a hardware interrupt signal.

 

Highest ISR routine execution time (µs): 200.797250

Driver with highest ISR routine execution time: HDAudBus.sys - High Definition Audio Bus Driver, Microsoft Corporation

 

Highest reported total ISR routine time (%): 0.001732

Driver with highest ISR total time: HDAudBus.sys - High Definition Audio Bus Driver, Microsoft Corporation

 

Total time spent in ISRs (%) 0.002366

 

ISR count (execution time <250 µs): 192231

ISR count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0

ISR count (execution time 500-1000 µs): 0

ISR count (execution time 1000-2000 µs): 0

ISR count (execution time 2000-4000 µs): 0

ISR count (execution time >=4000 µs): 0

 

 

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REPORTED DPCs

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DPC routines are part of the interrupt servicing dispatch mechanism and disable the possibility for a process to utilize the CPU while it is interrupted until the DPC has finished execution.

 

Highest DPC routine execution time (µs): 1290.669690

Driver with highest DPC routine execution time: nvlddmkm.sys - NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 591.86 , NVIDIA Corporation

 

Highest reported total DPC routine time (%): 0.030604

Driver with highest DPC total execution time: nvlddmkm.sys - NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 591.86 , NVIDIA Corporation

 

Total time spent in DPCs (%) 0.070060

 

DPC count (execution time <250 µs): 1727247

DPC count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0

DPC count (execution time 500-10000 µs): 66

DPC count (execution time 1000-2000 µs): 6

DPC count (execution time 2000-4000 µs): 0

DPC count (execution time >=4000 µs): 0

 

 

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REPORTED HARD PAGEFAULTS

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Hard pagefaults are events that get triggered by making use of virtual memory that is not resident in RAM but backed by a memory mapped file on disk. The process of resolving the hard pagefault requires reading in the memory from disk while the process is interrupted and blocked from execution.

 

NOTE: some processes were hit by hard pagefaults. If these were programs producing audio, they are likely to interrupt the audio stream resulting in dropouts, clicks and pops. Check the Processes tab to see which programs were hit.

 

Process with highest pagefault count: eldenring.exe

 

Total number of hard pagefaults 34765

Hard pagefault count of hardest hit process: 14809

Number of processes hit: 65

 

 

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PER CPU DATA

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CPU 0 Interrupt cycle time (s): 45.913793

CPU 0 ISR highest execution time (µs): 52.300176

CPU 0 ISR total execution time (s): 0.007069

CPU 0 ISR count: 5498

CPU 0 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1290.669690

CPU 0 DPC total execution time (s): 10.347802

CPU 0 DPC count: 1028241

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CPU 1 Interrupt cycle time (s): 13.326854

CPU 1 ISR highest execution time (µs): 186.204506

CPU 1 ISR total execution time (s): 0.125169

CPU 1 ISR count: 36542

CPU 1 DPC highest execution time (µs): 236.494441

CPU 1 DPC total execution time (s): 1.010642

CPU 1 DPC count: 46504

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CPU 2 Interrupt cycle time (s): 27.494746

CPU 2 ISR highest execution time (µs): 200.797250

CPU 2 ISR total execution time (s): 0.423721

CPU 2 ISR count: 121362

CPU 2 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1024.498245

CPU 2 DPC total execution time (s): 3.399354

CPU 2 DPC count: 134735

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CPU 3 Interrupt cycle time (s): 12.385180

CPU 3 ISR highest execution time (µs): 7.334991

CPU 3 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000312

CPU 3 ISR count: 147

CPU 3 DPC highest execution time (µs): 235.896138

CPU 3 DPC total execution time (s): 0.812093

CPU 3 DPC count: 77894

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CPU 4 Interrupt cycle time (s): 14.076719

CPU 4 ISR highest execution time (µs): 7.179637

CPU 4 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000326

CPU 4 ISR count: 182

CPU 4 DPC highest execution time (µs): 275.688707

CPU 4 DPC total execution time (s): 0.817639

CPU 4 DPC count: 106086

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CPU 5 Interrupt cycle time (s): 9.223182

CPU 5 ISR highest execution time (µs): 15.224693

CPU 5 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000062

CPU 5 ISR count: 22

CPU 5 DPC highest execution time (µs): 163.519602

CPU 5 DPC total execution time (s): 0.006149

CPU 5 DPC count: 843

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CPU 6 Interrupt cycle time (s): 13.519949

CPU 6 ISR highest execution time (µs): 165.284377

CPU 6 ISR total execution time (s): 0.063246

CPU 6 ISR count: 18339

CPU 6 DPC highest execution time (µs): 267.27560

CPU 6 DPC total execution time (s): 0.526176

CPU 6 DPC count: 24241

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CPU 7 Interrupt cycle time (s): 11.000898

CPU 7 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0

CPU 7 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0

CPU 7 ISR count: 0

CPU 7 DPC highest execution time (µs): 209.227326

CPU 7 DPC total execution time (s): 0.152301

CPU 7 DPC count: 27080

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CPU 8 Interrupt cycle time (s): 18.244239

CPU 8 ISR highest execution time (µs): 8.740784

CPU 8 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000292

CPU 8 ISR count: 215

CPU 8 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1076.138092

CPU 8 DPC total execution time (s): 0.719669

CPU 8 DPC count: 89534

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CPU 9 Interrupt cycle time (s): 11.026076

CPU 9 ISR highest execution time (µs): 21.746343

CPU 9 ISR total execution time (s): 0.002246

CPU 9 ISR count: 809

CPU 9 DPC highest execution time (µs): 209.717379

CPU 9 DPC total execution time (s): 0.044324

CPU 9 DPC count: 6433

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CPU 10 Interrupt cycle time (s): 13.730056

CPU 10 ISR highest execution time (µs): 173.793446

CPU 10 ISR total execution time (s): 0.026458

CPU 10 ISR count: 8635

CPU 10 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1017.483324

CPU 10 DPC total execution time (s): 0.266994

CPU 10 DPC count: 21242

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CPU 11 Interrupt cycle time (s): 10.702580

CPU 11 ISR highest execution time (µs): 4.461966

CPU 11 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000032

CPU 11 ISR count: 22

CPU 11 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1015.787010

CPU 11 DPC total execution time (s): 0.103409

CPU 11 DPC count: 13647

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CPU 12 Interrupt cycle time (s): 12.093453

CPU 12 ISR highest execution time (µs): 8.064365

CPU 12 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000091

CPU 12 ISR count: 36

CPU 12 DPC highest execution time (µs): 213.140433

CPU 12 DPC total execution time (s): 0.262527

CPU 12 DPC count: 27394

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CPU 13 Interrupt cycle time (s): 8.633920

CPU 13 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0

CPU 13 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0

CPU 13 ISR count: 0

CPU 13 DPC highest execution time (µs): 187.397601

CPU 13 DPC total execution time (s): 0.003542

CPU 13 DPC count: 491

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CPU 14 Interrupt cycle time (s): 11.681545

CPU 14 ISR highest execution time (µs): 21.947630

CPU 14 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000938

CPU 14 ISR count: 298

CPU 14 DPC highest execution time (µs): 199.131656

CPU 14 DPC total execution time (s): 0.056436

CPU 14 DPC count: 4987

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CPU 15 Interrupt cycle time (s): 9.115822

CPU 15 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0

CPU 15 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0

CPU 15 ISR count: 0

CPU 15 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1043.584552

CPU 15 DPC total execution time (s): 0.024784

CPU 15 DPC count: 7324

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CPU 16 Interrupt cycle time (s): 2.823546

CPU 16 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0

CPU 16 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0

CPU 16 ISR count: 0

CPU 16 DPC highest execution time (µs): 170.598888

CPU 16 DPC total execution time (s): 0.064023

CPU 16 DPC count: 10437

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CPU 17 Interrupt cycle time (s): 2.705166

CPU 17 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0

CPU 17 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0

CPU 17 ISR count: 0

CPU 17 DPC highest execution time (µs): 201.528379

CPU 17 DPC total execution time (s): 0.030929

CPU 17 DPC count: 2923

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CPU 18 Interrupt cycle time (s): 2.350827

CPU 18 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0

CPU 18 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0

CPU 18 ISR count: 0

CPU 18 DPC highest execution time (µs): 165.492686

CPU 18 DPC total execution time (s): 0.045182

CPU 18 DPC count: 3898

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CPU 19 Interrupt cycle time (s): 2.651509

CPU 19 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0

CPU 19 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0

CPU 19 ISR count: 0

CPU 19 DPC highest execution time (µs): 215.245758

CPU 19 DPC total execution time (s): 0.049992

CPU 19 DPC count: 4038

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CPU 20 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.500996

CPU 20 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0

CPU 20 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0

CPU 20 ISR count: 0

CPU 20 DPC highest execution time (µs): 221.664131

CPU 20 DPC total execution time (s): 0.098140

CPU 20 DPC count: 17522

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CPU 21 Interrupt cycle time (s): 2.286206

CPU 21 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0

CPU 21 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0

CPU 21 ISR count: 0

CPU 21 DPC highest execution time (µs): 854.607665

CPU 21 DPC total execution time (s): 0.049182

CPU 21 DPC count: 4212

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CPU 22 Interrupt cycle time (s): 2.080044

CPU 22 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0

CPU 22 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0

CPU 22 ISR count: 0

CPU 22 DPC highest execution time (µs): 187.657987

CPU 22 DPC total execution time (s): 0.067957

CPU 22 DPC count: 9595

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CPU 23 Interrupt cycle time (s): 2.016118

CPU 23 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0

CPU 23 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0

CPU 23 ISR count: 0

CPU 23 DPC highest execution time (µs): 123.084552

CPU 23 DPC total execution time (s): 0.043985

CPU 23 DPC count: 8428

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CPU 24 Interrupt cycle time (s): 3.266492

CPU 24 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0

CPU 24 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0

CPU 24 ISR count: 0

CPU 24 DPC highest execution time (µs): 219.302809

CPU 24 DPC total execution time (s): 0.144488

CPU 24 DPC count: 28909

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CPU 25 Interrupt cycle time (s): 1.945996

CPU 25 ISR highest execution time (µs): 26.020772

CPU 25 ISR total execution time (s): 0.000484

CPU 25 ISR count: 124

CPU 25 DPC highest execution time (µs): 203.696021

CPU 25 DPC total execution time (s): 0.053714

CPU 25 DPC count: 11114

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CPU 26 Interrupt cycle time (s): 1.913675

CPU 26 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0

CPU 26 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0

CPU 26 ISR count: 0

CPU 26 DPC highest execution time (µs): 149.815974

CPU 26 DPC total execution time (s): 0.026669

CPU 26 DPC count: 6143

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CPU 27 Interrupt cycle time (s): 1.898587

CPU 27 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0

CPU 27 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0

CPU 27 ISR count: 0

CPU 27 DPC highest execution time (µs): 852.944119

CPU 27 DPC total execution time (s): 0.031474

CPU 27 DPC count: 3424

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