Windows 8 PC Gaming Lag Spikes

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I have noticed this on my Windows 8 water cooling machine, it started with online and then single player games and the video just freezes for 2 seconds at some times. I did upgrade the Nvidia card driver just before xmas and Windows 8 did not do this before.

For me it is not a network issue it was video lag and in all these years I have never seen this before and I thought some went wrong with my video card. I have not fixed this yet as it is sporadic but I think its the new video drivers.

do you know what driver version you were running on when it wasn't doing this? I understand you didnt have this issue, even in windows 8? bc I upgraded my nvidia drivers together with windows 8; so I can't tell if it's an issue with new nvidia drivers on w8, any nvidia driver on w8 or just the new nvidia driver on any OS