Periodic Freezing Issue

joksfrey

I've recently made a move to amp up my render speeds by adding an additional external Aorus Gaming Box 1080. Initially there were some drivers problems, but ultimately I did a clean install of the newest version to handle both my laptop's internal 1060 and the new external 1080. Render speeds are definitely up. The problem I'm running into now is that the interface decides to freeze periodically, seemingly every 6 or 7 seconds for about a second. I've been testing out what brings this on and it seems to run fine with a new scene and one character. 

As soon as I add a piece of clothing to the scene the issue starts up all over again. All of my older, more complicated scene saves seem to have this issue now too. Never had this problem before...

Any thoughts? Now that I'm thinking about it, this may have nothing to do with the recent changes, and may have been going on for a while. It's possible I've gotten used to the lag and accepted it as unavoidable considering my system's specs. I have an MSI GS63VR gaming laptop with enough guts to run DAZ seamlessly tho, or so I would think.