If you have another drive; try moving your installation. I was playing TF2 with
@Jack Brickman and my stutter from CS (which I never had before) was showing up in tf2.
I noticed that tf2 was installed in the same drive I previously had cs go (my secondary SSD which is a pny). I downloaded a benchmarking SSd program and it notified me that my SATA was in ide compatibility mode. To put my SATA in AHCI I had to enable it in my bios and boot into safe mode before rebooting windows normally. Otherwise windows couldn't boot. Somehow going into safe mode it installed the AHCI drivers.
This didn't fix my problem, but it did speed up my drives in the benchmark. I decided to actually uninstall tf2 from my PNY ssd and install it on my 500 GB mechanical drive, and then the stutter vanished...
I have no clue wtf is going. Why 2 source engine games would stutter on the much faster PNY drive, but CS GO is on my windows drive (kingston SSD) and tf2 is obviously on the mechanical drive with no problems.
I decided to install left 4 dead 2 on my pny ssd to see if there was an issue. There wasn't, that game ran fine on the PNY. So I have no fucking clue why tf2 and cs go have a problem with that hard drive, but nothing else seems to. Especially since left 4 dead 2 runs on the same engine as hose two games. I bought this PNY pretty much to install games on it, because the main SSD fills up fast after windows is installed on it.
@gourimoko any ideas? I'm not sure if some fuckery is afoot with steam that is causing these issues. According to crystal disk all my drives are in good health, and the benchmarks are quite solid for both SSD's. Admittedly, my Kingston main drive is faster than the PNY, but the PNY smokes the mechanical drive (where tf2 sees no problems).