Recently bought an Acer Nitro 5 AN515-52 with an Intel Core i5-8300H and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, 8GB RAM. I have had this problem since I bought the laptop (3 days ago) and I don't know how to fix it. The CPU usage periodically spikes and the GPU usage of the GTX 1060 drops and at the same time the Intel GPU usage spikes. All of this together causes an FPS drop in games which makes it stutter and is really annoying. But I also find that after this happens in a game it also happens in my web browser, even as I'm typing this, but by this point the Nvidia GPU is no longer active. Anyone know what might be causing this?
I have also found that the regular CPU usage spikes begin as soon as I load up and open task manager, and persist even when I am not using any programs.
So far I have tried:
Clean Install of Windows 10
Reinstalling Drivers with DDU
Intelligent Standby List Cleaner
I have also used programs to monitor by CPU and GPU temperatures to see if that was an issue but it doesn't appear to be because the issue seems to happen no matter what the temperature of my components is.
I have tried changing all my performance settings to prefer maximum performance.
I don't know what other options I have but it's making games unplayable because of this stutter, however it is much less noticeable in some games than others e.g: In Minecraft it is a very noticeable stutter, but in Black Ops 3 the stutter is much less noticeable and doesn't get in the way as much.
