Sudden FPS drops

[MLDenma]

Weirdly enough I had no problems when it was between 70 -80 degrees.. o.o I'll just keep an eye on it and I will post a screenshot when the fps drops again.

Temperature is around 70 - 80 degrees rn, no fps drop.

[MLDenma]

[MiniTofu]

Look, I know not everyone knows how to open a laptop. It's just a few screws around the bottom. After opening it, get an air can and blow the dust out of those fans and heatsink. Dust is the electronic biggest enemy, it blocks airflow to allow cooling.

[Larirawiel]

Thank you for the picture.

91° C for the package is high. I can imagine that the CPU will throttle down because of it. If you can open your laptop then you should clean the CPU fan. And maybe replacing the thermal paste would also be very good.


Cheers

[MLDenma]

Thank you for your help!

The last time that they cleaned my laptop (make it dust and hair free) was about a month ago, and before that it was in August. I'll contact with the local electronic store, who also cleaned my laptop a few times, and ask if they can replace the thermal paste.
Sadly I can only do that when the lockdown is over and when my wrist is healing up v_v
Thank you, again, for your help! I really appreciate it.

[Larirawiel]

As a small workaround, you could try the tool ThrottleStop.

https://www.techpowerup.com/download...-throttlestop/


If your CPU is supported (i don't know , you get an error message if not) then there is an option "Disable turbo". It will prevent that the CPU will clock very high and this means less heat. But the game could now run slower overall.


Cheers

[Puss_Kat]

Throttlestop can no longer undervolt notebooks that are completely up to date with windows updates or bios updates, the microcode was updated to prevent the cpu accepting VID reductions. (a knee jerk reaction to a security vulnerability that can't even be pulled off remotely)