Acer AN515-54 running extremely slow

MacCraker

When I use my laptop, the speed is so slow I can visually see when I spam the F12 key the boot menu being rendered from top to bottom, like an old DOS PC. The temperatures are fine.

StevenGen

MacCraker said:

When I use my laptop, the speed is so slow I can visually see when I spam the F12 key the boot menu being rendered from top to bottom, like an old DOS PC. The temperatures are fine.

Take your OS back to a previous restore point or restore the OS completely and make sure that windows is up to date and all drivers are up to date also. Your laptop shouldn’t be doing that, also make sure that you have the last bios installed and the bios on default settings. Also check your M.2 boot drive if it’s not faulty and/or your ram is installed properly and not lose. All these factors have a big bearing on the performance of your laptop.

Easwar

Hi @MacCraker,

You can try increasing the virtual memory in your computer and that might boost up your system performance.

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/643241/why-my-new-laptop-acer-nitro-5-an515-54-is-slow

MacCraker

@StevenGen By slow, I mean like few operations per second. The slowness is like how a CPU running at 1.4GHz is slower than one at 3.27GHz, except the speed is in the range of likely less than 50MHz. The GPU (integrated, not dedicated) also seemed to be affected as I mentioned with the boot menu, imagine the loading of the boot menu like a CRT display in extreme slow motion, or a cinebench test sped up.

Also, the (removable) hardware is fine.

MacCraker

Easwar said:

You can try increasing the virtual memory in your computer and that might boost up your system performance.

I use Linux for everything (except VR). A partition of 128GiB should be plenty for swap space/virtual memory/swapfile/swap partition. Yes, it is set up correctly. It doesn't really matter, since the problem occurs in the boot menu too.

AnhEZ28

@MacCraker did you try to update the BIOS to resolve the F12 issue?

Easwar

Hi @MacCraker,

Having a lot of browser tabs open at once can also slow it down quite a bit. If this is happening, close any apps, browser tabs, etc., that you don't need and see if that helps speed up your PC. If it doesn't seem to help, restart your PC and then open just the apps, programs and browser windows you need.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/tips-to-improve-pc-performance-in-windows-b3b3ef5b-5953-fb6a-2528-4bbed82fba96#:~:text=Having a lot of browser,and browser windows you need.