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Final update- 20191015
I would have never thought that what I discovered is a culprit of making system unstable for almost 5 years since the introduction of this object to the windows 10. Its a “Notification and Action Center”
Here’s how I came to the conclusion;
- If I plug in the charger then boot up the pc. As long as I keep it plugged, system can streaming or playing video for days and it rock solid.
- if I unplugged the charger. System continues to perform as expected all the way til battery drain down below 20%
- Here’s when the lag and stuttering first show sign and symptom. It’s after I plug in the charger.
Times after times of cycling through battery full charge and re-charged, same micro lag and stutters occurred 5-10 minutes after charger has been inserted. And if I leave these stutters go on, symptom will keep getting worst. Two consequences that did happen to my system was first, system getting dragged down to a halt. Second, search index get corrupted.
These suggested that whatever makes the system unstable it has got to be one of the services that was suspended while in power save mode and wakes up when charging. Then coincidentally one notification came through and I click the action center, and.. BOOM! my system gone robot!
Since I can’t shutdown ACPI.sys nor I can stop services from launching and Just to disables notification from setting doesn’t do any good. Next best thing is to entirely remove “Notifications and Action Center”
here’s how
https://www.groovypost.com/howto/disable-action-center-windows-10/
Results;
It has been more than 3 days of charging and re-charging. Including throwing in a few tasks in between. Even after ACPI itself throwing 11,000μs latency,
Video continues to play without any sign of stress. (Besides one instance that buffer underrun but not from CPU overload nor stack jam but rather gone leaking somewhere for a few seconds)
And I have no interest of investigating without spec sheets. Rather fight with the gophers in the backyard OR helping my daughter research on building the machine for PTSD detection as objective finding instead of subjective, so we can trash insurance companies by the billions on the claimes.
Summary:
- Removal of “Notification and Action Center” ** to eliminate stuttering **
- Disable Audio Enhancements (including 3rd party)
- Run admin sfc /scannow (to ensure system integrity)
- Run troubleshoot on search index (for system integrity)
- Shutup10 to disable most Telemetry and backgrounds (optional)
- Kill RunTimeBroker service (NO)
- Disable “Sysmain” (NO)
- Turn off background apps (optional)
- Turn off setting/privacy (optional)
- Rollback to previous version of Windows 10 (optional)
- Everything else as your discretion
For most of us who’re using desktop, keep in mind, this findings might apply to your case as well. Since ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) it’s job is to internally regulate power. Therefore, result of background services or condition to occur to be manifested by it. Simply put, your system’s services get suspended and wakes up like any other laptop as well. As to “Notification and Action Center”? Including Audio Enhancements, Is up to Microsoft to look into. Googling the word “Lag and stuttering “ and ton of links show up, 8000 views in some posts should be enough to set a red flag. The offer to take my PC for free for Microsoft to do research still stand. You know where to get me.
Sdispun signing off..