Question I get low fps and stutters when I have a good gaming laptop

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I see many complaints about gaming laptops not performing well.
Usually gaming while plugged in.
One common cause is thermal throttling.
Laptop coolers must, of necessity be small and light.
The coolers are also relatively underpowered.
If you run an app such as HWMonitor or HWinfo, you will get the current, minimum, and maximum cpu temperatures. Set to see each individual core.
For intel processors, if you see a max of 100c. in red, it means you have throttled.
I think the number for ryzen is more like 85c-90c.
The cpu will lower it's multiplier and power draw to protect itself
until the situation reverses.
At a lower multiplier, your cpu usage may well be at 100%
What can you do?
First, see that your cooler airways are clear and that the cooler fan is spinning.
Use a windows balanced power profile, not the performance profile.
Set a minimum cpu performance to something like 20%

It is counter-intuitive, but, try changing the windows balanced power profile advanced functions to a max of 90% instead of the default of 100%
You may not notice the reduced cpu performance.
 
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geofelt said:
I see many complaints about gaming laptops not performing well.
Usually gaming while plugged in.
One common cause is thermal throttling.
Laptop coolers must, of necessity be small and light.
The coolers are also relatively underpowered.
If you run an app such as HWMonitor or HWinfo, you will get the current, minimum, and maximum cpu temperatures. Set to see each individual core.
For intel processors, if you see a max of 100c. in red, it means you have throttled.
I think the number for ryzen is more like 85c-90c.
The cpu will lower it's multiplier and power draw to protect itself
until the situation reverses.
At a lower multiplier, your cpu usage may well be at 100%
What can you do?
First, see that your cooler airways are clear and that the cooler fan is spinning.
Use a windows balanced power profile, not the performance profile.
Set a minimum cpu performance to something like 20%

It is counter-intuitive, but, try changing the windows balanced power profile advanced functions to a max of 90% instead of the default of 100%
You may not notice the reduced cpu performance.
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Also, check the thermal paste and see if it is dry. If it is dry it doesn't allow the cooler to cool as well and needs to be replaced.
 
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Two things with it off flipped upside down use a bright flash light pointing into the fan intakes. Now look hard into where the exhaust heat blows out on the side of your laptop. can you clearly see light that should have a clear path through your heat sinks where it exhaust from the light shining in from the fan side. If not it needs cleaning.

Also raise laptop off desk/ table give it room to breath see if this lowers temps and performance goes up.
 
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geofelt said:
I see many complaints about gaming laptops not performing well.
Usually gaming while plugged in.
One common cause is thermal throttling.
Laptop coolers must, of necessity be small and light.
The coolers are also relatively underpowered.
If you run an app such as HWMonitor or HWinfo, you will get the current, minimum, and maximum cpu temperatures. Set to see each individual core.
For intel processors, if you see a max of 100c. in red, it means you have throttled.
I think the number for ryzen is more like 85c-90c.
The cpu will lower it's multiplier and power draw to protect itself
until the situation reverses.
At a lower multiplier, your cpu usage may well be at 100%
What can you do?
First, see that your cooler airways are clear and that the cooler fan is spinning.
Use a windows balanced power profile, not the performance profile.
Set a minimum cpu performance to something like 20%

It is counter-intuitive, but, try changing the windows balanced power profile advanced functions to a max of 90% instead of the default of 100%
You may not notice the reduced cpu performance.
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First of all thank you for your reply, I tried to limit my cpu in the power plan like you said. I will be giving updates to see if it got better
 
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skilledguitarnoobie said:
Update 1 : The temps got a bit better but the stutters are the same :/ even on little games
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stonecarver said:
Two things with it off flipped upside down use a bright flash light pointing into the fan intakes. Now look hard into where the exhaust heat blows out on the side of your laptop. can you clearly see light that should have a clear path through your heat sinks where it exhaust from the light shining in from the fan side. If not it needs cleaning.

Also raise laptop off desk/ table give it room to breath see if this lowers temps and performance goes up.
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I think it does not need cleaning
 
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rgd1101 said:
what the cpu/gpu/ssd/ram usage during the game?
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During a performance test on RDR2 :
Processor between 50 to 65%
GPU (nvidia) : it goes up to 75-80% but can go down to 60%
GPU (amd radeon vega) : 5 to 7%
SSD : 0%
Ram : 40-44%

I can try it on other games if you'd like
After a few minutes on robl@x :
Processor around 30 but can go down to 18
nvidia it's between 17 and 30
amd radeon vega 13 to 18
Ram 27 but its not still
SSD 0
 
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stonecarver said:
In your HWINFO64 it says

CPU 97.1 c

Vega GPU 89.0 c

RTX GPU 88.6 c

So your running hot and somehow the Vega looks like it's doing the work but what I can see on your pic the RTX is also taxing system.
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I don't know what that means but it does not look good lol. I think I managed to reduce the temps but i'm not quite sure yet so tomorrow i can maybe put other logs after running RDR2 for an hour
 
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Order 66 said:
Come to think of it, I have the same sort of thing happen to me. even when I am using my RX 6800 I can see that the IGPU is still using 40W and still being utilized.
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Well i've never noticed. But anyways, this stutter problem started a long time ago and before I brought to the technician. I tried everything i could : i reinstalled windows11, messed with the power plan, tried to understand the registry but nothing got better :/
 
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