Lenovo Legion 5 High CPU usage and low GPU usage

[lusty wagon]

Model: Lenovo Legion 5 15IAH7H - Type 82RB (i7-12700h, RTX 3070)

Issue: While playing Overwatch 2 or any other game, the frame drops from an average of high 200 FPS, to 140-160 or even 60 FPS. I've noticed that when this happens the CPU usage is extremely high, and the GPU usage is very low, as if I am being bottlenecked by the CPU (this shouldn't be the case as my computer is powerful enough to run OW at high 200 to 300 FPS consistently. I have usually have the D-GPU only mode, however when I was working I had it on hybrid for a short time, but switched back. I am up-to-date on the Vantage software.

I have tried: Setting the preferred performance mode in Nvidia control panel to maximum. Rolling back GPU drivers with clean install (from version 531.68, 531.61), even uninstalled the latest Windows cumulative update, just to see if they would fix the issue. I have reset BIOS back to default. I also did a full scan on my computer files.

It started: 2 days ago
Installed: Nvidia drivers and the latest cumulative Windows update for Windows 11.

Here is a picture with the geforce overlay on the top right

[dense crown]

Does it happen in other games?

[lusty wagon]

Yes

[dense crown]

Try to do an EC reset first. Guide in #1020285176531669012

[lusty wagon]

I will try that and let you know

[lusty wagon]

Also here is a picture of it happening in other games (Death Stranding).

[lusty wagon]

It still happens

[dense crown]

Well for this then you need to see what is using the cpu

during those spike

[lusty wagon]

How can I check that?

[dense crown]

tab out and see what process is using the cpu?

[dense crown]

i mean while that symptom show up

[lusty wagon]

I tried to

[dense crown]

also try to disable shadow play

[lusty wagon]

Would that cause any issues?

[dense crown]

?

[lusty wagon]

I meant would shadowplay cause any performance issues

[dense crown]

it can and it does on some system

[lusty wagon]

Embarrassing question, but how do you disable it? 💀

[dense crown]

https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/how-to-disable-nvidia-overlay.html

[lusty wagon]

would turning off the in-game overlay, have the same effect?

[dense crown]

That won't do much

[lusty wagon]

I've turned off shadowplay and nothing has changed

[dense crown]

Well I suggest to clean install the gpu driver, with a suggested gpu driver version

[lusty wagon]

Suggested?

Also, its under warranty

[dense crown]

in #1020285176531669012

[dense crown]

Yes though it's not a hardware fault, so it's not really matter in this case

[lusty wagon]

should I use the cleanup tool to remove the software then, install the driver?

[dense crown]

Yes

[lusty wagon]

okay thank you. I know I'm asking a lot of questions, but I just wanna be sure.

[lusty wagon]

The problem still persists

[dense crown]

I suggest you to clean install windows

[lusty wagon]

Would that void the warranty?

and how would I get the settings the laptop came with

[dense crown]

No, it wouldn't

[dense crown]

nothing?

[lusty wagon]

Also my ram usage is unusually high, like 13gb out of 16gb, and that's when I have just overwatch with discord and vantage in the background

[dense crown]

eh not really

But you can unisntall vantage and its service to replace with Legion toolkit

Would likely reduce the usage by 0.7 to 1.5gb

[lusty wagon]

Legion toolkit?

What does that do?

[dense crown]

It basically replace all necessary function of Vantage.

and use around 70mb of ram only.

[lusty wagon]

I can't do that rn because I don't have USB stick to backup my data

[dense crown]

You can also back it up online?

Just save the necessary files

Or if you want just make a data partition on your disk, just be mindful not to delete it when you reinstall windows.

[lusty wagon]

What about using restore point?

[dense crown]

If you have it you can try doing to, try to revert to a point before you having such problems