Do you have a gaming laptop that is getting slower?
Do you have a gaming laptop that is getting slower?
I bought an HP Victus back 6 months ago. It had 16 gigs of RAM, an RTX 3050 Ti, and a Ryzen 7 processor. At first, it was super fast when I played games like Ark. There was no lag or trouble at all. But now, six months later, things have gone really slow. When I used to get 100 fps in high graphics settings, I only get around 60-70 fps with normal graphics. It's still lagging, even though I thought I had fixed the dust with a fan cleaning. I'm wondering if that little dust could have really killed my performance like this?
Welcome to the forums! First, check your laptop just in case there are any BIOS updates waiting. Next, make sure your operating system isn't ending up with pending OS updates too. After that, use DDU to wipe out all existing GPU drivers. Then, manually reinstall the newest Nvidia drivers from their official site by running the installer as Administrator (for example, right-click it and choose Run as Administrator).