Hi, I have an Acer Aspire 5 A515-51G-56K9, it's about 1 year old now.
The battery has already been once replaced because it had a 80% Wear Level according to HWinfo. The laptop came with a 65W charger, which heats up quite a lot, while charging especially charging while playing games.
Recently, whenever the laptop is running graphic heavy games, like Siege, Counter-Strike, CoD and I turn on the charger the game starts lagging heavily.
From 60-90 FPS on Battery Power to 5-15 FPS while Plugged In. The laptop also doesn't charge while this is happening, it just says "Plugged In Not Charging" and the charging light keeps blinking, if I play lighter games like Danganronpa etc. the laptop charges and discharges normally and there's no lag.
One interesting thing to note is that this only happens if I plug in the laptop below 50% power, if the power is above 50% the laptop doesn't charge, but the games also don't lag, below 50% the games run normally 60-90 FPS on battery power until the laptop shuts off due to critical battery but if I plug it in, it starts lagging heavily.
I have underclocked my CPU using ThrottleStop to help alleviate the overheating my laptop used to have, and I also use a cooling pad.
I'm also scared to run games while plugged in at 100% battery because of Table 3 listed in this article:-
https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
My old battery got the way it was because it was almost always plugged in while playing games, causing it to have over 80% wear. My current battery is around 1.5 months old and has a 6% wear already, so I keep charging and discharging it while using my laptop instead of just leaving it plugged in.
As for the lagging issue, could it be because my charger is getting old and faulty after 1 year of use and heating? Also, is 65 W really enough when 60-100% of CPU and 100% of GPU (Nvidia MX 150) is being used?
Should I replace my charger? Or use a higher wattage one? Though I haven't found a higher wattage charger with yellow pin like the socket my laptop has?
Or should I just keep playing plugged in at 100% battery and let my battery die in a year because it loses it's efficiency due to being at high temperature and high charge at the same time?
Please help.
The battery has already been once replaced because it had a 80% Wear Level according to HWinfo. The laptop came with a 65W charger, which heats up quite a lot, while charging especially charging while playing games.
Recently, whenever the laptop is running graphic heavy games, like Siege, Counter-Strike, CoD and I turn on the charger the game starts lagging heavily.
From 60-90 FPS on Battery Power to 5-15 FPS while Plugged In. The laptop also doesn't charge while this is happening, it just says "Plugged In Not Charging" and the charging light keeps blinking, if I play lighter games like Danganronpa etc. the laptop charges and discharges normally and there's no lag.
One interesting thing to note is that this only happens if I plug in the laptop below 50% power, if the power is above 50% the laptop doesn't charge, but the games also don't lag, below 50% the games run normally 60-90 FPS on battery power until the laptop shuts off due to critical battery but if I plug it in, it starts lagging heavily.
I have underclocked my CPU using ThrottleStop to help alleviate the overheating my laptop used to have, and I also use a cooling pad.
I'm also scared to run games while plugged in at 100% battery because of Table 3 listed in this article:-
https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
My old battery got the way it was because it was almost always plugged in while playing games, causing it to have over 80% wear. My current battery is around 1.5 months old and has a 6% wear already, so I keep charging and discharging it while using my laptop instead of just leaving it plugged in.
As for the lagging issue, could it be because my charger is getting old and faulty after 1 year of use and heating? Also, is 65 W really enough when 60-100% of CPU and 100% of GPU (Nvidia MX 150) is being used?
Should I replace my charger? Or use a higher wattage one? Though I haven't found a higher wattage charger with yellow pin like the socket my laptop has?
Or should I just keep playing plugged in at 100% battery and let my battery die in a year because it loses it's efficiency due to being at high temperature and high charge at the same time?
Please help.
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