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# Micro Freezes

ClarinetK622
✭1 posts
June 8, 2016 5:53AM
Hi,
I am running Catalyst on my Asus ROG G751JY (980M, Intel i7-4720HQ) gaming laptop and I'm encountering micro freezes. The game runs at a smooth 60fps on ultra/hyper a majority of the time, however every 20 or so seconds the game freezes for an instant. This is understandably annoying so I ran some tests. Just looking at the freeze in Task Manager's performance tab shows CPU usage drops from around 80-90% to 40ish% corresponding to the freeze. I tried turning the settings down to Low but the same result occurred. On closer inspection with Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, I noticed that while the core temps do get high (94max) there is no Thermal Throttling. Instead the Utility detects my "Active Cores" dropping from 4 cores to 1 core with every spike. Why might my active cores be shutting down when running Catalyst? Again, this still occurs while on low settings and low temperatures. I have never seen this behavior in any other game, including those of similar graphical fidelity.
Thanks so much for any help

## Comments

- ClarinetK622
  1 posts ✭
  June 8, 2016 6:02AM
  SOLUTION: Go into taskmanager under the "services" tab and disable "ASUSGameFirstService"
- wozhendeaa
  2 posts ✭
  July 9, 2016 6:46PM
  this works you are a life saver man
- xSniperrr
  1 posts ✭
  July 10, 2016 1:21AM
  Hi!
  I have the same problem but I don't even have ASUSGameFirstService installed,can somebody help me?
  I have tried everything but it won't work
  Thanks for helping me in advance!
- paraclem
  1 posts ✭
  September 24, 2016 12:30PM

  > ClarinetK622 wrote: »
  > SOLUTION: Go into taskmanager under the "services" tab and disable "ASUSGameFirstService"

  Thank you so much, I buy an Asus RoG G20 for this game and I don't play the game because I have micro freeze, after disable the ASUSGameFirstService everythink works fine.
  Thank to you again.

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