Is your laptop's graphics card suddenly slowing down a lot?
Is your laptop's graphics card suddenly slowing down a lot?
For the past few days, I've been having trouble with my laptop: an ASUS Vivobook that I bought almost a year ago. It has these basic specs like Windows 11, AMD Ryzen 5600H, Nvidia Geforce RTX 3050, 16 GB RAM. The problem seems to be the GPU. While playing games, the gpu works fine for a few minutes, then it gets a noticeable stutter, and suddenly the gpu usage hits 99% while performance drops massively. I go from a solid 60 fps to below 20 FPS. This happens no matter what game I play. Skyrim usually runs at around 65-80% GPU usage before spiking, and Fable Anniversary (which isn't that heavy) runs at 30-50% before spiking. I haven't tested on other games yet. Looking at Task Manager, the CPU seems to be running normally. I don't think it's a temperature issue because the gpu is only around 65 C when things go wrong. The battery looks fine and isn't in power saving mode. The fans seem to be working okay too. I don't remember making any software updates or hurting the laptop by accident. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the graphics drivers, but nothing worked. I'm really stuck here. Does anyone have an idea on what this problem could be? Any help would be appreciated.
Hey there, I think it's slow down. How hot is the CPU when you're gaming or using apps? Check tools like HWInfo so you can watch those temperatures go up. What kind of power plan do you have set to? Also what BIOS version your laptop has? Just to make sure, are you plugged in with the power cord on while playing games?