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Getting random FPS drop on almost every game, not a throttling issue

Arqade Asked by Aironenero on December 14, 2020

Since some time (1 month I think) I had this problem, some games were going as low as 20-30 FPS for some second and then returning to the standard 60-80FPS I’ m used to get. However this suddently became worse. I can’ t find whats causing this.

I’ m using an HP Pavilion AK112NL Gaming Laptop, I7 6700HQ and GTX950M 4GB, 8GB ram, win 10 Home 1803 (build 17134.112).

This is not a thermal throttling issue, I ran the games in windowed mode while keeping an eye at CPU and GPU temperature using throttlestop, HWonitor and MSI afterburner, fps drops were happening at 75-80C.

Laptop is also set to maximum performance mode. I tried to update both NVidia and intel drivers with no luck, I changed thermal paste 1 week ago, still no luck (but I lowered my temps by 5-10 degrees).

Tried a fresh install today and still nothing.

When the drops happen there is no relevan disk activity. I also tried with games both on SSD and HDD and there is no difference. Still getting FPS drops.

Theese drops happen on: warframe, war thunder, starcraft II, wreckfest, Euro Truck simulator 2, Grid: Autosport, The Incredible adventures of van helsing, CS:GO and so on. Varius genres of games, varius type of GPU and CPU load, same problem.

I have disabled Game DVR on windows, removed GeForce Experience and still no difference.

I’ve never seen something like this in years of pc gaming. Any ideas on how to remove this problem?

2 Answers

I get this a lot as well, It's usually to do with other tabs taking up your CPU, Disk or memory. Make sure you have no background apps open when you're playing your game, such as Chrome, etc.

Answered by Salzino on December 14, 2020

I had the same issue, and for me it was OneDrive, checking for something to sync. There was nothing to sync even, but it stopped when I closed it.

This happened to me in Heroes of the Storm, which doesn't need anything powerful.

I would imagine that any other cloudstorage could have same impact: DropBox, Google Drive, Amazon, ... you name it.

Ensure the app is stopped when playing (and not running in tray!).

Answered by StampedeXV on December 14, 2020

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