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echo arch Oct 24, 2024, 5:16 PM

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I'm having massive frame drop on all games I play. When I spin up the laptop cold things start working for ~5 minutes before I get the frame drops. This makes me think it's a cooling issue with the laptop but I checked and there's nothing clogging the fans. I also wasn't having any issue before July 17th running games for 5+ hours at a time. I stopped gaming all together after July17th until August 16th and booted up games to find this issue. Short of reformatting or servicing my laptop what can I do?

Things I've tried:
Vantage hardware scan, 100% healtlhy
BIOS update
Dedicated GPU only gaming
Integrated GPU only gaming
Balance and Performance mode with different screen refresh rates
Turning off Whisper mode on NVidia GPU settings
Disabling FPS limiter in-game
Nvidia driver legacy install to 552
Latest Nvidia driver install (662)

Specs:
Model: 82WQ
CPU: i9-13900HX
GPU: 4090
RAM: 32GB DDR5

All tests were done with full battery plugged in. Any thoughts/advise would be appreciated.

coarse arrow Oct 24, 2024, 5:36 PM

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echo arch I'm having massive frame drop on all games I play. When I spin up the laptop col...

Run hwinfo64 sensors in the background while you play then post screenshots of them.

coarse arrow Oct 24, 2024, 10:26 PM

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echo arch I'm having massive frame drop on all games I play. When I spin up the laptop col...

You gonna do that or?

echo arch Oct 24, 2024, 10:50 PM

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coarse arrow You gonna do that or?

Yeah, I'm still busy. Will do when I'm free.

echo arch Oct 25, 2024, 12:17 AM

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Here's a few minutes of logs:

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📎 sensors-log_1.CSV

coarse arrow Oct 25, 2024, 12:18 AM

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echo arch Here's a few minutes of logs:

Screenshots please.

echo arch Oct 25, 2024, 12:22 AM

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Screenshots of which categories?

little harness Oct 25, 2024, 1:19 AM

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coarse arrow Screenshots please.

Hey I'm having the exact same issue, the only difference is I am running a CPU: i9-14000HX and GPU: 4070, everything else is pretty much the same (excluding the model of course)

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here's mine

coarse arrow Oct 25, 2024, 2:09 AM

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echo arch Screenshots of which categories?

My original message. Screenshots of all the sensors

coarse arrow Oct 25, 2024, 2:13 AM

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little harness Hey I'm having the exact same issue, the only difference is I am running a CPU: ...

Make your own post

slender ice Oct 25, 2024, 2:16 AM

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Are you playing on battery?

slender ice Oct 25, 2024, 2:39 AM

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echo arch I'm having massive frame drop on all games I play. When I spin up the laptop col...

Check Windows power modes, do you have best performance selected?

echo arch Oct 25, 2024, 5:11 AM

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slender ice Are you playing on battery?

Sorry forgot to mention all tests are on power with full battery.

echo arch Oct 25, 2024, 5:11 AM

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coarse arrow My original message. Screenshots of all the sensors

Will do.

echo arch Oct 26, 2024, 3:03 AM

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I figured out that it might be due to the CPU thermal throttling at 107C. Any suggestions how to fix?

slender ice Oct 26, 2024, 3:06 AM

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In the log you showed, you were hovering in the 80s

slender ice Oct 26, 2024, 3:06 AM

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echo arch I figured out that it might be due to the CPU thermal throttling at 107C. Any su...

Are you sure it's 107 and not 100.7? That's well beyond bad thermal throttling

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Are you sure you are not obstructing the vents or exhaust? Did you take off heatsink recently or had laptop repaired?

coarse arrow Oct 26, 2024, 3:15 AM

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echo arch I figured out that it might be due to the CPU thermal throttling at 107C. Any su...

just show the screenshots.....

echo arch Oct 26, 2024, 5:45 AM

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slender ice In the log you showed, you were hovering in the 80s

The logs were after 10 minutes which had constant frame drops. I played a less intense game for about half an hour (still had frame drops) and it came to 107.

echo arch Oct 26, 2024, 5:45 AM

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slender ice Are you sure you are not obstructing the vents or exhaust? Did you take off heat...

No obstructions. On flat wood table with nothing around it. Room temps are around 68-70.

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CPU screenshot:

slender ice Oct 26, 2024, 5:47 AM

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echo arch CPU screenshot:

Share the rest for Tuna

slender ice Oct 26, 2024, 5:47 AM

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echo arch No obstructions. On flat wood table with nothing around it. Room temps are aroun...

Can you raise laptop back? It'll help the fans by giving them more space

echo arch Oct 26, 2024, 5:47 AM

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Yeah I'm just making sure there's no PII then uploading.

slender ice Oct 26, 2024, 5:49 AM

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echo arch The logs were after 10 minutes which had constant frame drops. I played a less i...

Ahh, so 107 is during cpu only load at 100w, then it's not a big deal

echo arch Oct 26, 2024, 5:50 AM

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@coarse arrow Full screenshots:

echo arch Oct 26, 2024, 5:51 AM

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slender ice Ahh, so 107 is during cpu only load at 100w, then it's not a big deal

What you mean? 107 is pretty high.

coarse arrow Oct 26, 2024, 5:52 AM

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ya the cpu throttling could be part of it

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your gpu is using like no power

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what were you doing during this?

echo arch Oct 26, 2024, 5:53 AM

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Gaming

slender ice Oct 26, 2024, 5:53 AM

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coarse arrow your gpu is using like no power

40w is not great, but not that bad

slender ice Oct 26, 2024, 5:54 AM

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echo arch Gaming

What games though?

coarse arrow Oct 26, 2024, 5:54 AM

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oh this is a 4070 variant risitasnervous

echo arch Oct 26, 2024, 5:55 AM

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Here's a clip from the game that I took the screenshots:
Upper right has metrics upper left has FPS. Can't upload more due to Discord's file limit.

coarse arrow Oct 26, 2024, 5:55 AM

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you should also show the cpu temps with the cores temps expanded

echo arch Oct 26, 2024, 5:55 AM

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coarse arrow oh this is a 4070 variant <:risitasnervous:954771792772333630>

4070 variant? Where does it say that. Hope I didn't get scammed.

coarse arrow Oct 26, 2024, 5:56 AM

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the sensors say a 4070...

echo arch Oct 26, 2024, 5:56 AM

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coarse arrow you should also show the cpu temps with the cores temps expanded

I checked they were all at 95+

echo arch Oct 26, 2024, 5:56 AM

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coarse arrow the sensors say a 4070...

GPU #1 says 4090 though?

coarse arrow Oct 26, 2024, 5:57 AM

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oh jesus my bad. maybe i need to go to bed

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i saw 4070 risitasnervous

coarse arrow Oct 26, 2024, 5:57 AM

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echo arch I checked they were all at 95+

just show them expanded please

echo arch Oct 26, 2024, 5:57 AM

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Haha no problem. If I remember correctly there's a 4070 4080 and 4090 variants

echo arch Oct 26, 2024, 5:58 AM

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coarse arrow just show them expanded please

Ok I'll have to play another game though.

echo arch Oct 28, 2024, 6:37 AM

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coarse arrow Oct 28, 2024, 11:44 AM

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echo arch

Well your Liquid Metal application seems ok, the machine is just hot.

ionic rapids Oct 28, 2024, 1:52 PM

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Try “Disable fullscreen optimizations” in .exe execution game file.

echo arch Oct 28, 2024, 7:32 PM

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Getting mixed signals here but I'll try that.

echo arch Oct 28, 2024, 7:33 PM

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coarse arrow Well your Liquid Metal application seems ok, the machine is just hot.

Yeah but I've been using it for ~6 months with 5+ hours of gaming and it's been fine. Not sure how it suddenly decides it's too hot.

coarse arrow Oct 28, 2024, 7:34 PM

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echo arch Yeah but I've been using it for ~6 months with 5+ hours of gaming and it's been ...

Time to clean

echo arch Oct 28, 2024, 7:35 PM

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Already checked vents + board, it's all fine.

coarse arrow Oct 28, 2024, 7:35 PM

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Well temps are basically always physically related. If you’ve never cleaned the fans and vents, you should

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