Question Heavy FPS drops while gaming

[VoidInfernal]

Hey everyone, got a question for y'all.

My laptop has these weird FPS drops while gaming. The game will fine (60+ fps) for around 10 seconds, then the fps drops to somewhere around 20 for about 3 seconds, the back up to 60+ for 10 seconds. This cycle continues indefinitely. While looking at the task manager while these FPS drops occur, the CPU usage graph dips from 60% usage to around 25% usage. The speed of the CPU remains steady at around 3.12 GHz throughout all of this.

I also took a look at MSI Afterburner & when the FPS is fine, I am hitting the GPU power limit 1" However, when the FPS drops, the GPU power limit goes down to 0.

Here's a list of things I have tried thus far:

• Updating Nvidia Driver
• Uninstalling & Reinstalling Nvidia Driver
• Updating every driver I could find
• Maxing out power settings for maximum performance
• Fresh install of Windows

I do not believe I am getting thermal throttled, my temps max out around 70C, sometimes 72C. I have no idea if I'm getting power throttled because I don't know how to check. If anyone has any ideas or would like me to try a test, benchmark, anything, I am willing and ready to. I'll take all the help can get.

Thanks so much for reading all of that. Again, I'll take any help I can get. IF anyone would like more info, please ask. Thanks!

SPECS:
Intel Core i7-6700HQ 2.6GHz
12GB DDR4
1TB SSHD
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 4GB

 

[Nemesia]

It will be hard to say if you're power throttled if you do not tell us what is your Power Supply brand and model

 

[VoidInfernal]

It will be hard to say if you're power throttled if you do not tell us what is your Power Supply brand and model

My power supply is just the one that came with my laptop. Its an HP power supply, model HSTNN-DA25. The part number, if you want it, is 732811-003.