Question Regular frametime spikes while gaming

[dromus_]

Hey! I have an asus tuf f15 i7-12700H rtx 4070. The stuttering became a problem after I got my laptop back from the repair center. I don't know if this is relevant to the issue, but I sent my laptop to get repaired because while cleaning I think I broke the display or connector to the display and after turning it on the screen would be completely black. So I sent it to get repaired and they replaced the screen. After I got the laptop back they wiped the drive, so I had to reinstall everything. After I got it back, I installed Nvidia drivers, updated windows, uninstalled ASUS stuff with ghelper's debloat tool and armoury crate uninstaller, and installed ghelper. I went to play overwatch 2 and while playing I noticed stuttering happening. I tried to ddu the drivers and reinstall them, limit fps, moved the game from my second drive to the main one where windows is installed (I had overwatch installed on another drive before sending the laptop for repair and took the drive out before shipping it). I then installed MSI afterburner and looked at temps, which were all in the 55-60C. Power draw between GPU and CPU was 60w combined. The charger is capable of 240w. I looked at the frame time and the majority of the time it was like 10ms, but it would spike to 30ms, 50ms, 100ms (sometimes). I also noticed this in left 4 dead 2 in the main menu and in-game. Anyone know what the problem is?

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

I'd try and see if your laptop has any BIOS updates pending. Since you're on the laptop, maybe even try undervolting though if you're certain that the issue cropped after you'd replaced the panel, then the panel might not be like for like on the laptop.

 

[dromus_]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

I'd try and see if your laptop has any BIOS updates pending. Since you're on the laptop, maybe even try undervolting though if you're certain that the issue cropped after you'd replaced the panel, then the panel might not be like for like on the laptop.

I checked on the myasus app and there was no pending bios update. Regarding the undervolting, I don't think I can? I looked in the bios under advanced and I didn't see anything about voltage control. Before I sent my laptop to be repaired the display didn't have the option for gsync (? pretty sure, but not 100% because other than resetting windows the only thing they did was change displays) and after it did so I know it's a different display than the original. I don't know what I can do about that.