Games have started running poorly!

Jul 22, 2018
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I have a asus nitro 5 gaming laptop with a 1050ti! I also live in japan however I play games on American/English speaking servers as I am from America!

I bought this laptop and had no problems playing games! However for the past couple weeks even small games like csgo run pretty badly online. I run into stutters and freezes that last for around a second usually.
Idk why this is happening as it didn’t do this before! Other games like Pubg and rust are nearly unplayable! Even on lowest settings!

I’ve tried uninstalling/reinstalling. I’ve tried to make sure the games were running off my NVidia gpu and not the integrated one. And still nothing.

The ONLY thing I can think that I did was I moved my steam and steam library to my external hard drive and off my SSD. I thought this wouldn’t matter as the SSD mostly just help load times but. That’s the only thing I can think of that I changed around when everything went bad!

Please help! Thank you!