AN515-52 - Acer nitro 5 fps drops after a while

mos1n

Hello there I got AN515-52 with i5 8300h and gtx 1050 4gb and 6 gb ram and I have an issue with the fps drops after 40 Mins of gameplay.
CPU usage drops from 100% to 50 and lower
And my fps drops from 50-60 to 20-10 for like 5 seconds, then things going normal for 15-20 mins then again CPU usage drops my CPU temperature is on 95C
I got that laptop since October so it not that old. Pls help

andylb

Yes I see that and 94 deg is too high the CPU is throttling back. I would undervolt with Trottlestop, go down a little bit at a time until you hit the sweet spot where performance doesn't suffer but temperature gets to the mId to upper 80's. Link below to the Throttlestop guide

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/31385-the-throttlestop-guide/

The screenshot also shows GPU use as zero, make sure it is using the Nvidia, do this by hovering your mouse cursor in the GPU graph of Nitrosense, if you see "Discrete GPU Idle" then you need to recheck your control panel settings 

andylb

Have you set up the Nvidia Control Center correctly? Please follow all my instructions below

Please click YES if I answer your question, thankyou

Make sure you do this below and always game on 100% battery BEFORE gaming and KEEP plugged in while gaming, in your Windows Power plan select High Performance when on AC and in Nitrosense make sure High performance is selected under "AC" tab

1. Download and install the latest Nvidia drivers from here and do not install GEforce experience, instead check the link every month for updated drivers
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx. Geforce Experience causes problems for some people

2. Go to the Nvidia control center and click Manage 3d settings tab, then click the Global Settings tab and change Preferred Graphics processor from Auto select to your Nvidia GPU, do this by clicking the downward arrow to the right of Auto Select and select the Nvidia GPU. Then under the Program Settings tab select the programs and games that you want to run on the Nvidia GPU. Do the same under the Set PhysX Configuration tab

mos1n

andylb said:

Have you set up the Nvidia Control Center correctly? Please follow all my instructions below

Please click YES if I answer your question, thankyou

Make sure you do this below and always game on 100% battery BEFORE gaming and KEEP plugged in while gaming, in your Windows Power plan select High Performance when on AC and in Nitrosense make sure High performance is selected under "AC" tab

1. Download and install the latest Nvidia drivers from here and do not install GEforce experience, instead check the link every month for updated drivers
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx. Geforce Experience causes problems for some people

2. Go to the Nvidia control center and click Manage 3d settings tab, then click the Global Settings tab and change Preferred Graphics processor from Auto select to your Nvidia GPU, do this by clicking the downward arrow to the right of Auto Select and select the Nvidia GPU. Then under the Program Settings tab select the programs and games that you want to run on the Nvidia GPU. Do the same under the Set PhysX Configuration tab

I already did that, and that is not helping. Sorry for my bad English tho

andylb

What is the game? is it online? Do you experience the same problem while playing an offline game?

mos1n

andylb said:

What is the game? is it online? Do you experience the same problem while playing an offline game?

It dosent matter online or offline game CPU usage drops anyway

andylb

Start Nitrosense before you game then please post a screenshot of Nitrosense after a power and fps drop, I would like to see your CPU temperature when it throttles back to 50%

mos1n

andylb said:

Start Nitrosense before you game then please post a screenshot of Nitrosense after a power and fps drop, I would like to see your CPU temperature when it throttles back to 50%

andylb said:

Start Nitrosense before you game then please post a screenshot of Nitrosense after a power and fps drop, I would like to see your CPU temperature when it throttles back to 50%

Do you see that tiny downpeaks????

andylb

Yes I see that and 94 deg is too high the CPU is throttling back. I would undervolt with Trottlestop, go down a little bit at a time until you hit the sweet spot where performance doesn't suffer but temperature gets to the mId to upper 80's. Link below to the Throttlestop guide

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/31385-the-throttlestop-guide/

The screenshot also shows GPU use as zero, make sure it is using the Nvidia, do this by hovering your mouse cursor in the GPU graph of Nitrosense, if you see "Discrete GPU Idle" then you need to recheck your control panel settings 

mos1n

andylb said:

Yes I see that and 94 deg is too high the CPU is throttling back. I would undervolt with Trottlestop, go down a little bit at a time until you hit the sweet spot where performance doesn't suffer but temperature gets to the mId to upper 80's. Link below to the Throttlestop guide

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/31385-the-throttlestop-guide/

The screenshot also shows GPU use as zero, make sure it is using the Nvidia, do this by hovering your mouse cursor in the GPU graph of Nitrosense, if you see "Discrete GPU Idle" then you need to recheck your control panel settings 

I'll try that,then I'll write you back about the results

mos1n

andylb said:

Yes I see that and 94 deg is too high the CPU is throttling back. I would undervolt with Trottlestop, go down a little bit at a time until you hit the sweet spot where performance doesn't suffer but temperature gets to the mId to upper 80's. Link below to the Throttlestop guide

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/31385-the-throttlestop-guide/

The screenshot also shows GPU use as zero, make sure it is using the Nvidia, do this by hovering your mouse cursor in the GPU graph of Nitrosense, if you see "Discrete GPU Idle" then you need to recheck your control panel settings 

Thank you! As you can see max temp now 82 and graph is preety srtaight,no peaks!

andylb

Perfect, glad I could help

RG1210

hi im using acer nitro 5 - an515-52 i7 8750h gtx 1050 Ti . im having problems with my temp. please help me thank you so much