Interesting, just did some light reading on the nvidia driver stuff, and it might be the issue here:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforc...111/gtx-1080-high-dpc-latency-and-stuttering/
Looks like a possible fix was opening cmd as admin and running this command:
bcdedit /set useplatformclock false
https://www.ghacks.net/2013/04/18/try-changing-hpet-settings-to-improve-your-pcs-performance/
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforc...111/gtx-1080-high-dpc-latency-and-stuttering/
Looks like a possible fix was opening cmd as admin and running this command:
bcdedit /set useplatformclock false
https://www.ghacks.net/2013/04/18/try-changing-hpet-settings-to-improve-your-pcs-performance/