Here is an intermittent stuttering problem when using the Legion 5 Pro.
Here is an intermittent stuttering problem when using the Legion 5 Pro.
Hi everyone, I recently bought my first gaming laptop - the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with an RTX 3070 and an AMD Ryzen 7 5800H along with 16 GB of RAM (I checked using ZenTimings to make sure that this RAM doesn't have bad timings like some other Legion 5 Pro models do). While I can keep frame rates very high in most games I've tried, I still get little moments where the screen freezes for a split second. These happen mostly while moving around or when loading new scenes/effects on the screen. They look like sharp spikes on my frametime graph and don't seem to be normal drops that come from turning down settings or lowering the resolution. I wonder if this is just a thing some PC games have, since I am used to consoles where such glitches were rare except for specific older games with bad frame pacing. But it seems too many modern games are showing these issues. Could someone tell me what might be causing this and how to fix it? See the link below for my post on reddit about two examples in Mortal Shell and Plague Tale Innocence. Thanks! View: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/co...me_spikes/ I ran a benchmark here which suggests that only my RAM is not perfect. Is this actually the problem? I wanted to know if I can just fix this or if it makes sense to return my laptop while I still have time. Thanks so much for your help!
Welcome to our forums! I wish Userbenchmark didn't exist because it messes with how we test hardware. You have a 2x8GB RAM kit that is rated for DDR4-3200MHz; maybe you should check if your laptop has any BIOS updates waiting. You could try getting rid of old GPU drivers using DDU, then download the newest Nvidia driver and manually reinstall it in an elevated command line by right-clicking the installer and choosing Run as Administrator.
Thanks for sending me those ideas, but neither one worked. The problem stayed even after we tried upgrading the motherboard's BIOS settings.
After testing some more games, I can clearly say that the stuttering comes from loading new stuff or saving and checking points. It feels like something called I/O stutters. Curiously, I tried running Plague Tale Innocence on my PS5 to see what happens in a specific spot where it's very bad for my laptop - the stutter is there but barely noticeable if you don't know about it. I wonder if knowing this tells us more about where the problem might be.