Question Concerns about gaming on new laptop ?

[SydneyAngel]

Hello all, laptop model and specs:

Alienware M18 R2
CPU: i9-14900HX
GPU: 4070
RAM: 32GB DDR5
1TB
Windows 11

My concern is while in game for example playing Cyberpunk when loading into game sound stutter for a second.

Another instants is when i was playing black ops 6 when matchmaking is active the game hung and basically frooze for a second mouse was still functional.

Am i just worrying ? or are these concerns ?

 

[Lutfij]

I would tax the laptop with other titles and see if the issue is spread across the other titles.

You could see if the laptop is pending any BIOS updates. Following that, see if the OS is pending updates. Following that you can use DDU to remove all GPU drivers(intel, AMD and Nvidia) in Safe Mode, then manually install the latest GPU driver sourced from Nvidia's support site in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

 

[punkncat]

Are you monitoring temperatures on this system?

Cyberpunk does actually open with some stutter by design as an effect. Are you sure it is in addition to that?

 

[SydneyAngel]

Temps seem good. I been using it regular and cant really say if im having any issues. In all honensty i do remember having some sound stutter on other systems could just be new system anxiety

 

[SydneyAngel]

I would tax the laptop with other titles and see if the issue is spread across the other titles.

You could see if the laptop is pending any BIOS updates. Following that, see if the OS is pending updates. Following that you can use DDU to remove all GPU drivers(intel, AMD and Nvidia) in Safe Mode, then manually install the latest GPU driver sourced from Nvidia's support site in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

I double check bios and its up to date 1.11 windows is updated. If it breaks then there isnt a whole lot i can do so i will not worry about

 

[SydneyAngel]

Just for FYI here is Cyberpunk in game

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oK9fxTxquks

 

[SydneyAngel]

Just as an update, I noticed when playing BF 2042 that the game froze for a second then came back, it did that twice. I don't know what that was about. No crashing or anything like that, could it be heat ?
I dont know.