My Acer Predator Helios 300 Lags a lot in games which it wasn't sometime before

poojan2305

I just installed some games like GTA V and Watch Dogs 2 and more... I played these games before on the same laptop and it worked fine then I uninstalled them and now I install them back and when I try to play its too laggy and FPS is like 10-15 average
It was all good some months ago but now the CPU and GPU heating is also way more
CPU always stays at 90C+ and when ran games GPU too goes 90C+
Here are some details of my model:
Name: Predator PH315-51
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050TI
CPU: Intel i5
RAM: 8GB

poojan2305

A screenshot for what I mean
No Special Programs are being ran in background
Discord is the only running program in the background

poojan2305

CPU fan spins at 5172CPM and GPU fan spins at 5769CPM
If any of helper needs this

Bertanx

You are most likely thermal throttling. At those temperatures, no wonder you are experiencing FPS drops. I would recommend cleaning up the dust inside the laptop and repasting thermal paste. A further step would be to undervolt and buy a cooling pad. 

poojan2305

Bertanx said:

You are most likely thermal throttling. At those temperatures, no wonder you are experiencing FPS drops. I would recommend cleaning up the dust inside the laptop and repasting thermal paste. A further step would be to undervolt and buy a cooling pad. 

ok i can do the cleaning stuff and buy a cooling pad
hope that fixes it

Rubblerealm

I had a similar issue with my laptop with extremely high temps. I now find that when im gaming it's much better to set the fans to max and undervolt the cpu and overclock the gpu. This helped greatly with temps and helped overall FPS a fair bit. But 10-15 fps in those games? That's interesting, but its possible your laptop is automatically using your integrated graphics instead of the 1050ti. To fix this 1. Right click on the desktop. 2. Go to nvidia control panel. 3. Go to 3d settings and set the preffered graphics processor to your 1050ti (it's default is auto select, which sometimes results in the laptop choosing to use the integrated graphics). Hope this helps.

poojan2305

Rubblerealm said:

I had a similar issue with my laptop with extremely high temps. I now find that when im gaming it's much better to set the fans to max and undervolt the cpu and overclock the gpu. This helped greatly with temps and helped overall FPS a fair bit. But 10-15 fps in those games? That's interesting, but its possible your laptop is automatically using your integrated graphics instead of the 1050ti. To fix this 1. Right click on the desktop. 2. Go to nvidia control panel. 3. Go to 3d settings and set the preffered graphics processor to your 1050ti (it's default is auto select, which sometimes results in the laptop choosing to use the integrated graphics). Hope this helps.

ok i did set 1050ti to default graphics processor and set fans to max and overclock gpu at max and undervolt using throttlestop and set offset voltage to -110C and seems there is not much change in FPS
and the CPU still heats when i play games and reach above 95
I noticed a thing games run smooth when CPU and GPU temp are lower and FPS is also nice and games are playable like before
But once it starts getting heated game drops FPS
What should i set offset voltage currently its -110C

poojan2305

12% Utilization and still 93C?!

poojan2305

So I did some research and found that if I max the fan with coolboost on and keep my laptop on a glass table and play then it wont heat up.It gets max up to 70C and that's good and games don't lag much, anything else like glass table or anything that I can buy like cooling pad to keep this temp.?

Sezokiller

a stand that lifts up your laptop and lets the air inside a cooling pad will work just perfect im using one atm