I have the Acer Nitro 5 AN515-52-59FD. 1tb HDD no SSD. Less than 20 FPS on Valorant

SaptaparnaPatra

I play Valorant, which is a pretty low specs game. I have the Geforce Gtx 1050, 4GB. But the FPS is not rising above 20, and goes below 10, making the game unplayable. I have updated  all drivers. An help?

SilvaGi

@SaptaparnaPatra Those temps would cause your system to "thermal throttle", causing your fps drop. Basically, the system reduces performance to lower the temps to save the cpu as it takes damage around 90C and gets destructive around 100C. Its your cpu overheating not gpu i think. You need to manage that heat. ideal is 75-85C.

In the meantime, try a laptop cooler with high rpm and with fans right underneath the laptops fans and also set your laptops fans to MAX on nitro sense when gaming.

Later, a repaste and thorough fans clean is needed- either by acer or you.

SilvaGi

make sure the games using the GPU NOT the integrated graphics!

Go nvidia control panel, manage 3d setting, program settings, select the game, select the "nvidia processor".

if it is running on gpu then make sure your not thermal throttling, ie hitting 100 C and computer throttling the power to your rig. will cause fps drops.

but since you said its stuck at 20 id say your using integrated graphics. Try optimizing it aswell in geforce experience.

SaptaparnaPatra

SilvaGi said:

make sure the games using the GPU NOT the integrated graphics!

Go nvidia control panel, manage 3d setting, program settings, select the game, select the "nvidia processor".

if it is running on gpu then make sure your not thermal throttling, ie hitting 100 C and computer throttling the power to your rig. will cause fps drops.

but since you said its stuck at 20 id say your using integrated graphics. Try optimizing it aswell in geforce experience.

No, I have checked several times. Its running on NVIDIA high performance processor

SilvaGi

what temps you getting?

SaptaparnaPatra

SilvaGi said:

what temps you getting?

Around 95-98 degrees C

SilvaGi

@SaptaparnaPatra Those temps would cause your system to "thermal throttle", causing your fps drop. Basically, the system reduces performance to lower the temps to save the cpu as it takes damage around 90C and gets destructive around 100C. Its your cpu overheating not gpu i think. You need to manage that heat. ideal is 75-85C.

In the meantime, try a laptop cooler with high rpm and with fans right underneath the laptops fans and also set your laptops fans to MAX on nitro sense when gaming.

Later, a repaste and thorough fans clean is needed- either by acer or you.