Question went from 3dmark 6500 to 4500 in 2 years

tuffluck

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i have a 3 year old i7-9750 and rtx 2060 sager laptop on windows 11. i originally could run time spy at 6400 (i can see my old score). after installing warzone 2.0 and getting terrible fps i have rerun 3dmark and i only get 4500. the gpu and cpu scores are both 4500 and were about 6500 each before. i can't figure out if my computer is slowly dying or what. when i play warzone 1.0 it still seems to run pretty fine, it's warzone 2.0 and 3dmark that really have shown some age i suppose. laptop runs just fine in regular applications, ie not gaming.

a while back some water spilled on my laptop and i let it dry out and it was fine after. i say "fine" meaning i didn't notice any hit on fps in call of duty. maybe this is what really affected the performance some how, i really can't say. it seems like a steep reduction in performance after only owning for 3+ years. any ideas or diagnostics i could run to see what component(s) are malfunctioning? thanks.
 

Karadjgne

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Change. Especially in software. You are operating under the assumption that your pc has seen no change in the last several years. Windows updates, security updates, anti-cheat software, driver updates, time-spy updates, there's multiple changes that have happened, even microcode updates for stuff like Spectre and Meltdown which can have a negative impact on performance.