Low FPS on Acer Nitro 5 AN515-54

MrRakso11
MrRakso11 Member Posts: 10 New User
I have a Nitro  with the GTX 1650, I bought this laptop year and couple months ago, I used to play games such as Metal Gear 5 at 60fps, Valorant at 70fps but like a month and a half ago this games started dropping frames like crazy. Metal Gear 5 constantly runs at high 40s and Valorant is dropping to  mid 50s and high 30s when the action gets too heavy. Neither of these games are graphically demanding either so I shouldn't be experiencing this. I haven't touched any of the settings, I only play when the computer is plugged in, set to high performance, I have the nvidia control panel set to the Nvidia graphics card globally, all the game graphics are optimized via Geforce Experience. Some games still run at 60fps, such as Resident Evil 6 but that's a 9 year old game and even then it does drop to 50 sometimes. I checked the fans and everything is fine, they spin well and are clean. I've been playing on the same desk I've always been playing and I never had a problem with blocking the airvent so its cant be that either. I updated all my drivers and updated my BIOS aswell and nothing has changed. I defraged my hard drive as there's where I install all my games because the SSD is too small. 
 On the Nvidia control panel I set the Physx to the GTX 1650, maybe I should change that to integrated graphics? 
Also, I should mention that the battery doesn't last as much as it used to. But that shouldn't matter right? I always have it plugged in before playing but maybe that's affecting somehow?
Please help!!

Answers

  • andybig77
    andybig77 Member Posts: 38 Devotee WiFi Icon
    edited September 2021
    How did you update the drivers?

    This is how I would go about this... 
    1.  Download the drivers from the acer web site for the card.
    2.  Get the driver folder on the desktop
    3.  restart the PC
    4.  go to the drivers folder and install like this
         a.  click advanced install
         b.  check only the things you need and for testing I would loose physx for now
         c.  check clean install
         d.  install drivers
    5.  restart pc
    6.  test your games and report back

    Also, I just reread this and I don't like geforce experience myself.  I would get that off of there personally and adjust setting per game.
  • MrRakso11
    MrRakso11 Member Posts: 10 New User
    andybig77 said:
    How did you update the drivers?

    This is how I would go about this... 
    1.  Download the drivers from the acer web site for the card.
    2.  Get the driver folder on the desktop
    3.  restart the PC
    4.  go to the drivers folder and install like this
         a.  click advanced install
         b.  check only the things you need and for testing I would loose physx for now
         c.  check clean install
         d.  install drivers
    5.  restart pc
    6.  test your games and report back

    Also, I just reread this and I don't like geforce experience myself.  I would get that off of there personally and adjust setting per game.
    No, it didn't work. Which driver are talking about? I downloaded the VGA (1650) driver but it was an older version of what I was running. I downloaded and installed it anyways but it didn't help. Can be more specific with the driver you want me to install?
  • andybig77
    andybig77 Member Posts: 38 Devotee WiFi Icon
    Yes I believe you installed the one I was referring to.  The one on the acer website for your laptop.  I know that sometimes when I update my GPU drivers from NVIDIA it actually hurts performance.  The ones listed on Acer seem to work the best for me.
  • andybig77
    andybig77 Member Posts: 38 Devotee WiFi Icon
    Yes I believe you installed the one I was referring to.  The one on the Acer website for your laptop.  I know that sometimes when I update my GPU drivers from NVIDIA it actually hurts performance.  The ones listed on Acer seem to work the best for me.  For instance I am running Nvidia driver 27.21.14.5167.

    I'm confused as to what would cause this.  I was thinking it could be the driver got corrupted somehow or you installed a driver that didn't play well with your system & games.  That's why I would start with the one Acer lists and has tested for my own personal testing.

    I'm sorry I can't help you more.  I will continue to think about this and write back if I can think of anything.  If you don't get any other answers here I might try overclock.net.  There is many knowledgeable people there.

    The only thing I can suggest for now is trying more recent drivers that you know were working fine for you but making sure you clean install them.
  • AltamashMK9
    AltamashMK9 Member Posts: 88 Fixer WiFi Icon
    edited September 2021
    The same thing started happening for me a month ago and I have the same laptop as you, I still haven't found a fix and yes it is not thermal throttling at all no other issues as well as I benchmarked it etc it passed with really good scores, I'm not sure why but I'm glad I'm not the only one in this issue, I'm also trying my best to find a fix so yeah let's keep our fingers crossed and hopefully get rid of this frame dropping issue that didn't happen before at all
  • MrRakso11
    MrRakso11 Member Posts: 10 New User
    andybig77 said:
    Yes I believe you installed the one I was referring to.  The one on the Acer website for your laptop.  I know that sometimes when I update my GPU drivers from NVIDIA it actually hurts performance.  The ones listed on Acer seem to work the best for me.  For instance I am running Nvidia driver 27.21.14.5167.

    I'm confused as to what would cause this.  I was thinking it could be the driver got corrupted somehow or you installed a driver that didn't play well with your system & games.  That's why I would start with the one Acer lists and has tested for my own personal testing.

    I'm sorry I can't help you more.  I will continue to think about this and write back if I can think of anything.  If you don't get any other answers here I might try overclock.net.  There is many knowledgeable people there.

    The only thing I can suggest for now is trying more recent drivers that you know were working fine for you but making sure you clean install them.
    I now remember a very important detail. Like a month and a half ago I started having problems with my fans. Before, the fans would speed up automatically when gaming. They would go up to 5k-6k RPM on a regular gaming session. But for some reason they don't do that anymore. Now I have to manually max them up before I open the game. I don't what could cause that problem, I replaced my cpu fan as it was starting to rattle, the other one is still fine, but I still dont know how to fix that. I've uninstalled and reinstalled nitrosense more than enough times. Maybe there's a driver I must update but I don't know which driver controls the fans.
  • AltamashMK9
    AltamashMK9 Member Posts: 88 Fixer WiFi Icon
    The issue isn't definitely related to your fans, My fans are working fine and yet I have some frame dropping issue that started around the same time ago as yours, I still haven't found the solution but yeah keep trying man everyday I'm searching about this on the Internet I just want the way my laptop was working before this like literally not even 1 frame drops or stuttering and now it's so laggy and annoying