Greetings folks,
It's almost half a year since I have bought gaming Laptop Y540:
i7 9750 4.5 GHZ
GTX 1660 ti
16 GB of RAM 2666MHz
1TB NVME SSD
144 Hz
Since the very beginning I had issues with sound, there was crackling sound always present when using headphones, which I decided to figure out by myself. There were also some other minor issues which I resolved by reinstalling windows 10. Everything worked flawlessly for a little while....
After a month or so I started to feel that in games there are points when it becomes laggy, I had undervolted my laptop back then to lower down temps a bit so I thought that was the cause of it, so I tried different setting, even reverted everything back but nothing seemed to help. I tried literally everything I could find on the internet but nothing seemed to work so I gave up eventually as I had prioritize my uni studies for a while.
Last month I started having more time to game again and I was trying to find solution for this. I even reintalled GPU drivers using DDU, tried many different versions, didn't help.
I should clarify that there are two parts of this issue actually:
Any suggestions what else I can do? I will try anything.
So I did some research and I let MSI afterburner to make some benchmarks and also I really followed graphs in MSI afterburner and this is what I got in 3 games I played (Borderlands 3, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Witcher 3)
Borderlands3.exe benchmark completed, 41908 frames rendered in 447.844 s
Average framerate : 93.5 FPS
Minimum framerate : 0.0 FPS
Maximum framerate : 138.0 FPS
1% low framerate : 0.0 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 0.0 FPS
eurotrucks2.exe benchmark completed, 20132 frames rendered in 239.765 s
Average framerate : 83.9 FPS
Minimum framerate : 0.3 FPS
Maximum framerate : 90.0 FPS
1% low framerate : 0.3 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 0.3 FPS
Witcher3.exe benchmark completed, 5832 frames rendered in 41.000 s
Average framerate : 142.2 FPS
Minimum framerate : 5.6 FPS
Maximum framerate : 144.5 FPS
1% low framerate : 9.8 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 4.4 FPS
And more importantly!
These are graphs when playing Borderlands 3 :
View: https://imgur.com/a/XZdmETT
View: https://imgur.com/a/USjiPFm
View: https://imgur.com/a/ncuwaqm
So as you can see, CPU remains at the same frequency all the time so we can say, that's not an issue, but GPU usage can drop heavily even during playing. Also frame times...
It's almost half a year since I have bought gaming Laptop Y540:
i7 9750 4.5 GHZ
GTX 1660 ti
16 GB of RAM 2666MHz
1TB NVME SSD
144 Hz
Since the very beginning I had issues with sound, there was crackling sound always present when using headphones, which I decided to figure out by myself. There were also some other minor issues which I resolved by reinstalling windows 10. Everything worked flawlessly for a little while....
After a month or so I started to feel that in games there are points when it becomes laggy, I had undervolted my laptop back then to lower down temps a bit so I thought that was the cause of it, so I tried different setting, even reverted everything back but nothing seemed to help. I tried literally everything I could find on the internet but nothing seemed to work so I gave up eventually as I had prioritize my uni studies for a while.
Last month I started having more time to game again and I was trying to find solution for this. I even reintalled GPU drivers using DDU, tried many different versions, didn't help.
I should clarify that there are two parts of this issue actually:
- Happens in every game, when want to open menu, map, or something else, there is immediate fps drop, I use riva tuner and MSi afterburner so I can see it drops like from 100 fps to 3,2,1.
- Happens in most games, (Borderlands 3, AC Odyssey...) when I normally play and don't open anything there is small very short stutter every about 2 minutes. Interesting part is, as I can monitor it via Riva tuner, there is usually very small fps drop when this occurs (10-15 fps down) while frame time graph goes like roller coaster though. I found one workaround that actually helped a little, I created a task that splashes cached RAM every minute, that helped a little. But it's still annoying.
Any suggestions what else I can do? I will try anything.
So I did some research and I let MSI afterburner to make some benchmarks and also I really followed graphs in MSI afterburner and this is what I got in 3 games I played (Borderlands 3, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Witcher 3)
Borderlands3.exe benchmark completed, 41908 frames rendered in 447.844 s
Average framerate : 93.5 FPS
Minimum framerate : 0.0 FPS
Maximum framerate : 138.0 FPS
1% low framerate : 0.0 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 0.0 FPS
eurotrucks2.exe benchmark completed, 20132 frames rendered in 239.765 s
Average framerate : 83.9 FPS
Minimum framerate : 0.3 FPS
Maximum framerate : 90.0 FPS
1% low framerate : 0.3 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 0.3 FPS
Witcher3.exe benchmark completed, 5832 frames rendered in 41.000 s
Average framerate : 142.2 FPS
Minimum framerate : 5.6 FPS
Maximum framerate : 144.5 FPS
1% low framerate : 9.8 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 4.4 FPS
And more importantly!
These are graphs when playing Borderlands 3 :
View: https://imgur.com/a/XZdmETT
View: https://imgur.com/a/USjiPFm
View: https://imgur.com/a/ncuwaqm
So as you can see, CPU remains at the same frequency all the time so we can say, that's not an issue, but GPU usage can drop heavily even during playing. Also frame times...