I've been having a lag spike problem for about a week now. I know when somebody says lag the first thing you think is 'Oh, his computer must not be good enough' but thats not the case here. Here are my specs.

OS = Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit

CPU = i7-4770k 3.50 GHz (8 CPUs)

GPU = Nvidia GTX 760 4GB

Sound Card = Creative Sound Blaster Zx

Ram = 32 GB

DirectX 11

1920 x 1080 32 bit 60Hz (Single display)

Another reason I know its not my specs is because the game worked perfectly for 2 weeks before I started getting lag spikes.

So here's the story. Everything was going fine until I ran some normal maintenance on my computer. Meaning I used avg pc tune up to do normal stuff, a regestry cleanup, regestry defrag, check for disk errors, disc defrag, plus I did a full system virus scan and a disk cleanup.

After I did all that i started getting random lag spikes. Its like for just a second or half a second the game will totally freeze. These spikes happen totally randomaly. Walking indoors and outdoors, combat, doing stuff in the inventory, looting, talking, even just standing still. They're totally random. I should add that im using MGSO 3. So anyway here's what I've tried so far.

Totally reinstalling Morrowind and MGSO (3 times) - didn't help

Reinstalling Morrowind without MGSO - didn't help

Changing draw distance down to 10 - didn't help

Reducing other MGSO graphic settings - didn't help

System restore to back before I ran all the maintenance - didn't help

Totally removing Morrowind, its regestry entries and other leftover files from my computer then reinstall - didn't help

Reinstalled GPU Driver - didn't help

Using a newer version of Morrowind code patch and MGE XE - didn't help

Running it in a window - didn't help

Yelling at random people in my neighborhood - didn't help

I guess im just looking for input here. Can anybody out there think of what might be causing this or maybe think of trying something I didn't try. Maybe I overlooked something?

I should also not that I've tried like 10 other games to see if they lag too, but they work fine. So its just a morrowind problem.