Decreasing performance of graphic card in notebook

[Kubko93]

Hello,
I have little problem, a year ago I bought a new notebook Acer F15 ( https://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Aspire-F15-F5-573G-53V1-Notebook-Review.167946.0.html ) , with 8 GB RAM , Intel i5-6200 2,3 GHz Cpu and main thing, graphic card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M ( 4 GB VRAM ) , the notebook seems to slowing down, fps starting to fall slowly. For testing, I am using Cinebench R15, I use OpenGL test, which this application has. When the notebook was quite new, I had in average 76-78 FPS in this test, in these days, I have about 68-70, and when I restart the computer, I have about 70-73 fps. Can anyone help with it ? Everything is with clean system, without any unnecessary programs running. I run it on SSD disk which is in 85 % full for the full information. Thanks for any help.

 

[mfradu123]

I am not a PC nor Laptop expert but these can be the causes of your performance loss:

- Overheating (Likely Cause). I recommend to have the laptop cleaned every year. It is really incredible how much dust can enter that flat case. When I cleaned mine, I had the surprise of removing "blankets" of dust from the radiator, fans, and pretty much around every vent gap from my laptop's case. So clean it up, if you are not into this kind of stuff, get to a laptop service company that will do it for you. Also ask them to remove the heat pipes, take the stiffed and old term paste out and apply a new layer. You see, when a laptop is heating over a specific temperature, the processor and gpu lower their maximum performance level to prevent damage, that is why, sometimes the fps gows down after some usage time

- Too many apps, programs and files on your Windows. The fastest way to deal with the problem is to take all of your important files, store them on a partition, defragment it, clean it of possible viruses and then perform a clean Windows reinstall. If not, you can use programs like CCleaner or AVG Tune Up to do the cleaning job for you. For me, it removed about 110GB of temorary files and also over 40 thousand broken files, registries and shortcuts. My laptop instantly became faster after that.

- Obsolete drivers, especially the graphics driver that for me came up with an additional 3-5 fps after updating.

Other things to try: Search fro Battery Options, set the Laptop on 'High Performance' while connected to the charger. Go to NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Global Settings: Set the default drive to 'High Performance NVIDIA Processor', then scroll down the list and when you come across "Power Management Mode", set it on Prefer Maximum Performance.

Hope it helped!

 

[Kubko93]

Thank you for your answer mfradu123.
I will try to clean my laptop from dust, I think I could buy some compressed air, do you recommend it to me ?
The other things, I am also not an expert, but I work with computers from young age, so settings like high performance, GPU performance, laptop battery options, updated drivers and other similiar things I have seted up. I think my registers are not in mess, I run defragmentation few times, I am not installing lot of redundant things and I uninstalled some of pre-installed programs, which was on the notebook when I bought it. I don't have any program like CCleaner, or something like that, but I can give it a try. I will reply the the result

 

[mfradu123]

Well, then the only two possible cause left (that I am aware of) are either the Overheating as I said before or a faulty Graphics Card, tho I doubt that for a 1 year old Laptop. Yes the compressed air is a far better choice than any wiping tissue, but fist I would recommend you to look for the dust layers and remove them with tweezers and then use compressed air. Keep me posted 😀