Question FPS below 29 for ~1min

[bharatin]

Hello folks,good day
I have been playing games on my HP laptop with coolpad but whenever VSYNC is off I am getting fps of above 100.All of a sudden it is going below 30 and remaining for about 1 min before again going back to >100 fps.
My question is this even by the slightest percentage a problem arising from faulty hardware?
Its not happening when VSYNC is on,fps of 60.Temperatures are normal.
Specs: i5 12450H, 16 gb ram, rtx 3050 with minimum settings set in game.

 

[beyondlogic]

Hello folks,good day
I have been playing games on my HP laptop with coolpad but whenever VSYNC is off I am getting fps of above 100.All of a sudden it is going below 30 and remaining for about 1 min before again going back to >100 fps.
My question is this even by the slightest percentage a problem arising from faulty hardware?
Its not happening when VSYNC is on,fps of 60.Temperatures are normal.
Specs: i5 12450H, 16 gb ram, rtx 3050 with minimum settings set in game.

what is the screen refresh rate ?

 

[CelicaGT]

Are you moving the laptop when this happens? Bumping the table? Anything of the sort? There is a motion sensor on modern laptops that will limit the GPU clocks for 45 seconds or so. I have three modern machines that do this, two Acers and a Dell. It is not well documented but it is a thing. To test, give the top deck a little smack and see if it slows down, sometimes you have to actually pick the machine up to trigger it, my Dell is much more sensitive than the Acers.

(Edit: To add) If you have the NVIDIA overlay active, you should can show GPU clockspeed to confirm.

 

[bharatin]

what is the screen refresh rate ?

144hz

 

[bharatin]

Are you moving the laptop when this happens? Bumping the table? Anything of the sort? There is a motion sensor on modern laptops that will limit the GPU clocks for 45 seconds or so. I have three modern machines that do this, two Acers and a Dell. It is not well documented but it is a thing. To test, give the top deck a little smack and see if it slows down, sometimes you have to actually pick the machine up to trigger it, my Dell is much more sensitive than the Acers.

It is not moving,fixed.

 

[CelicaGT]

It is not moving,fixed.

Monitor GPU clockspeed, temp, utilization with the overlay. And to be clear, in the case of my Dell, setting a cup down on the table next to the machine will trigger this very annoying issue.

 

[bharatin]

Monitor GPU clockspeed, temp, utilization with the overlay. And to be clear, in the case of my Dell, setting a cup down on the table next to the machine will trigger this very annoying issue.

Clockspeed fluctuates from 1200 to 1900 [approx] ,temp normal, usage fluctuates

 

[CelicaGT]

Clockspeed fluctuates from 1200 to 1900 [approx] ,temp normal, usage fluctuates

My 3050 drops down to 1245 when there is an "event". That is on one of the Acer machines. You can also check "Prefer Max Performance" in NVIDIA Control Panel, Global settings > Power Management mode. That should keep it from fluctuating based on load. This stuff can be difficult to diagnose on a laptop vs a desktop as they're so much more thermally constrained and often there's OEM software/firmware getting in the mix, complicating things.