Hello everyone.
So, I have a laptop with Intel Core i7 6700HQ and Nvidia GTX 960M. For the last couple months I have gotten massive frame drops in every single 3d game I've played (which is a problem due to my major of Game Design). I have been trying to fix this for a while, have reinstalled everything from top to bottom (including a complete factory reset), so I'd like to think it's not the software, even though this problem did occur immediately after a restart (cannot remember if it was a Driver update or Windows update, was not too concerned at the time).
Lately I downloaded OCCT just to struggle and check if anything seems off. At first glance I thought it was my computer running hot, since the Nvidia Chip is at a constant 80 degree celsius, so initially I was worried my fan wasn't working. Fan's working from what I can tell. The next thing I found was that for whatever reason, while the heat for my Nvidia GPU is always between 80 ~ 93 C if I'm playing games, the... Power? (I am not too good with hardware) is always sitting at 0.93V no matter what game I load up or thing I do. On the other hand, my Intel chip seems to go into overdrive when I try to play games, getting up to around 28 W. (I don't even know if these are even the same things being measured, and if they're not I apologize.)
This happens even when I run the OCCT GPU 3d test. So I come to the conclusion my nvidia GPU isn't being used, and therefore begin googling. Most of what I found (going into Nvidia control panel and changing to high performance, for example) is stuff I have already tried way before I tried using the OCCT monitoring software, and even 'adding' the game to the list of Nvidia items and running with the High Performance GPU the problem persists.
I have frankly no idea what to do at this point, and hence decided to make an account and post here. If anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful. At this point I'm not even sure if my current assumption of what the problem is is right.
A few more notes:
This did not start with Windows 10 1903. I updated to it way after to see if it would help.
All my drivers are upto date (I have driver easy and run it every other day to check).
The specs of my computer (and sorry if I'm not grabbing the right things, I am litterally copying them from the system About tab) are:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60 ghz
16.0 GB of RAM
Windows 10 Home Edition 1903
(I do not know if my Nvidia card should appear here, but it doesn't on the tab...)
So, I have a laptop with Intel Core i7 6700HQ and Nvidia GTX 960M. For the last couple months I have gotten massive frame drops in every single 3d game I've played (which is a problem due to my major of Game Design). I have been trying to fix this for a while, have reinstalled everything from top to bottom (including a complete factory reset), so I'd like to think it's not the software, even though this problem did occur immediately after a restart (cannot remember if it was a Driver update or Windows update, was not too concerned at the time).
Lately I downloaded OCCT just to struggle and check if anything seems off. At first glance I thought it was my computer running hot, since the Nvidia Chip is at a constant 80 degree celsius, so initially I was worried my fan wasn't working. Fan's working from what I can tell. The next thing I found was that for whatever reason, while the heat for my Nvidia GPU is always between 80 ~ 93 C if I'm playing games, the... Power? (I am not too good with hardware) is always sitting at 0.93V no matter what game I load up or thing I do. On the other hand, my Intel chip seems to go into overdrive when I try to play games, getting up to around 28 W. (I don't even know if these are even the same things being measured, and if they're not I apologize.)
This happens even when I run the OCCT GPU 3d test. So I come to the conclusion my nvidia GPU isn't being used, and therefore begin googling. Most of what I found (going into Nvidia control panel and changing to high performance, for example) is stuff I have already tried way before I tried using the OCCT monitoring software, and even 'adding' the game to the list of Nvidia items and running with the High Performance GPU the problem persists.
I have frankly no idea what to do at this point, and hence decided to make an account and post here. If anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful. At this point I'm not even sure if my current assumption of what the problem is is right.
A few more notes:
This did not start with Windows 10 1903. I updated to it way after to see if it would help.
All my drivers are upto date (I have driver easy and run it every other day to check).
The specs of my computer (and sorry if I'm not grabbing the right things, I am litterally copying them from the system About tab) are:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60 ghz
16.0 GB of RAM
Windows 10 Home Edition 1903
(I do not know if my Nvidia card should appear here, but it doesn't on the tab...)
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