Question How to diagnose FPS drops?

[Night_Strixx]

Just recently, I've started getting significant FPS drops. This has never happened before.

To remedy it, I've tried: updating my drivers, reinstalling my Nvidia, scan and repair the game, ran virus checks. Nothing.

How do I further diagnose what's going on, so that I may remedy it?

 

[Lutfij]

What hardware are you working with? What titles are you taxing your hardware with? How are you monitoring your frames for your titles that you're gaming on?

reinstalling my Nvidia
Can you elaborate on how you did this?

 

[Night_Strixx]

What hardware are you working with? What titles are you taxing your hardware with? How are you monitoring your frames for your titles that you're gaming on?

reinstalling my Nvidia
Can you elaborate on how you did this?

1070 graphics card, 512gbSSD. i7 processor?

I'm playing Overwatch 2, sometimes I'll have a song or an external forum open in the background, which I've done without any issues whatsoever. Until now.

I have the option enabled in-game on my device through the Overwatch settings. I have a 120hz screen on this laptop, I have the frames set to a max of 120. When I'm experiencing issues, and it's not always, the frames will drop to about 30 - 40 FPS. Everything becomes stuttery.

It's not consistent though. It usually occurs when there's a bunch of stuff going on on the screen.

I have the GeForce app installed on my device, it lets me know when there's new driver updates available. I clicked on it and selected 'reinstall driver' because I thought it might've been installed incorrectly or something.

 

[Order 66]

First, what specific I7 CPU? second, You need to use DDU to completely uninstall the graphics driver, because installing it from within the software itself doesn't get rid of all of it.

 

[Night_Strixx]

First, what specific I7 CPU? second, You need to use DDU to completely uninstall the graphics driver, because installing it from within the software itself doesn't get rid of all of it.

Intel i7 7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz

Do you have a link for DDU? Is it free?

 

[Order 66]

It is free. Make sure you follow ALL the directions on the website or else something will likely go wrong.

Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) download version 18.1.1.5

Download Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) Official - Remove AMD/NVIDIA/INTEL Graphics Drivers Cleanly - DDU is a driver removal utility that helps you completely uninstall AMD/NVIDIA graphics card drivers and packages from your system, leaving no leftovers behind, including registry keys...

www.guru3d.com

 

[Night_Strixx]

It is free. Make sure you follow ALL the directions on the website or else something will likely go wrong.

Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) download version 18.1.1.5

Download Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) Official - Remove AMD/NVIDIA/INTEL Graphics Drivers Cleanly - DDU is a driver removal utility that helps you completely uninstall AMD/NVIDIA graphics card drivers and packages from your system, leaving no leftovers behind, including registry keys...

www.guru3d.com

Do you think that's the issue though?

 

[Order 66]

Do you think that's the issue though?

It could be. Another issue could be temps.

 

[Night_Strixx]

It could be. Another issue could be temps.

Temps seem fine, I have my fan on at max, but I don't always monitor the temperature.

What are safe levels, or what should I be loking for if that were to be the problem?

 

[stonecarver]

I'm playing Overwatch 2, sometimes I'll have a song

Does this happen when your NOT playing music at the same time.

I sometime make a huge song play list with VLC and if I want to play a game I would pause music and play the game. I never put the two and two together till in one game I was playing I had to get into an elevator and when I pushed the floor keys to close the elevator doors AC/DC started to play? WTF got to another part of the game and Joan Jett ???

Than game crashed. Not the fault of my hardware or OS but I look at it as user fault.

 

[Order 66]

Temps seem fine, I have my fan on at max, but I don't always monitor the temperature.

What are safe levels, or what should I be loking for if that were to be the problem?

as long as the temps are below 100C you should be fine. If temps were the problem you would see CPU throttling (slowing down to protect itself) and stutters.

 

[Night_Strixx]

Does this happen when your NOT playing music at the same time.

I sometime make a huge song play list with VLC and if I want to play a game I would pause music and play the game. I never put the two and two together till in one game I was playing I had to get into an elevator and when I pushed the floor keys to close the elevator doors AC/DC started to play? WTF got to another part of the game and Joan Jett ???

Than game crashed. Not the fault of my hardware or OS but I look at it as user fault.

It does happen when I'm not playing anything in the background. It seems to happen faster when I do have something open as opposed to when I have nothing open

as long as the temps are below 100C you should be fine. If temps were the problem you would see CPU throttling (slowing down to protect itself) and stutters.

So temps, video card. Anything else that could be causing this issue?