Frame hitching starting randomly and gets worse over time

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System Information:
Windows 10 Home (22H2)
CPU: Intel(R) Core™ i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory: 16.0 GB DDR3
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

This issue seems to happen to me in every game. It also has been happening for months…
When I stay in a game for a few hours, I start to get random drops in framerate for a few seconds. The longer I stay in the game, the laggier they become. Aside from that, I also get microstutters (they always happen).

I looked for ways to see what was causing this. One of them was WPT which only told me the cpu usage was increased. This was before I found out there was more to the microprofiler, so now I finally have something that may help. The weird thing is when I have the microprofiler open for at least 5 or 10 minutes, the frame hitching stops. When I close it, they come back.

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Microprofiler dump is attached privately.

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I figured this might be related to this specific issue: repeatedly opening and closing esc settings will cause lag to appear and get worse. This could be memory leakage since some instances I see in F1 do not get cleaned up. I tried this in a baseplate place.
After enough esc presses, pressing tab will cause lag and sometimes bring up the report menu despite the settings menu being closed.
Spam clicking on the menu while its opening or closing will cause lag.

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@Jblocks12321 we will investigate soon, given this thread has not been looked at in a while we would like to know if the issue is still reproducible/relevant by you?

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Yes, the issue can still happen.
After around 60 minutes of gameplay, the issue appeared. I have a microprofile file for it if you need.
I will try to give any additional info you request.