Messed Around With Nvidia Control Panel And Task Manager Startup Nitro 5

Ryan545454

I have an Acer Nitro 5 Gaming Laptop. Specifications: 15.6" (Screen Size), Intel® Core™ i5 (CPU), GTX 1650 (GPU), 512 GB SSD (... An SSD) 8G RAM (As again, it is RAM).

Problem in Short: I was looking at a YouTube Video to try and Optimize Gaming for my Acer Nitro 5 (link, Top 5 Ways To Optimize Windows For Gaming On The Acer Nitro 5 - YouTube). After applying these changes I noticed my computer's performance in gaming... Actually gone a lot more terrible (only game I play is Minecraft: Java Edition. I went from 200-220 FPS to 1-5 FPS). Sometimes Videos on YouTube play at something like 1fps or something, sometimes its smooth...ish but stutters/bugs out a LOT. PC Performance, terrible: EXTREMELY Slow and seems to even have trouble functioning compared to when it ran SO FAST and Smoothly! But I had a restore point, used it and nothing seems to have been fixed.

Aftermath

I keep getting a blue screen (quite a few times now) saying that "A problem occurred something" with a ":(" atop of it. As it restarts my PC trying to "retrieve error information". Minecraft: Java Edition, the only game I play seems to go back to 210-220 fps when I'm on menu (on the F3 menu, which shows more of the mechanics and works of the game, seems to show my RAM being more stable as the memory is not resetting as a lot compared in game (not menu).

But in general my PC Performance is terrible. Trying to type this right now is hard. Its almost like my Laptop downgraded to some cheap $50 Laptop. I am thinking about factory resetting. But I should be able to fix it manually, right? Also I should mention after I got this horrible performance, and used my reset point. The windows settings seem to have gone back. Not sure about the Nvidia, because prior to the reset point I clicked the reset option for the Nvidia Control Panel on the "3D Settings". And it is still the same. Before I changed my settings and clicked went to its "default settings". I should mention my considerably original settings before doing any other of these 2 other setting chances, were different from the "default settings" option... I wonder why. Because it was always on auto-select and still is. However I took a screenshot of the top half of my settings and restored half of them back to original. Remember most at the bottom on what they were and might even be the same as my old settings.

So why can I not fix anything? What should I do?

(Thread was edited to add model name to the title)

 

StevenGen

Just a bit of advice as I've got a Nitro 5 with the i5-11300H, GTX-1650 gpu and 16GB DDR4-3200MHz CL22 running Win-11 perfectly and never ever have gaming problems like yours. I just upgraded from its 8GB 1x DDR4-32000MHz CL22 with an additional and exact OEM spec 8GB Hynix module, to match the OEM and the same Hynix DDR4-3200Mhz CL22 as an upgrade to 16GB, so do that if you want 16GB as you will change the laptop from running in "Single Channel" to running the laptop in "Dual Channel" which is best for gaming, if you want more ram than 16GB, then buy a kit of 2x 16GB DDR4-3200Mhz or its best to run the Crucial System Scan as that will give you the best 32GB kits that they sell and is suitable for your Nitro 5. 

First, never follow some random guide from youtube as you are asking for troubles! What you should do with the NVIDIA Control Panel, reset all the settings to default in NVIDIA Control Panel and don't change the "High Performance NVIDIA processor" settings at all. In Global Settings set it to "High Performance NVIDIA processor" but in the other settings be very careful of what you change, as changing the OpenGL, Antialiasing, CUDA settings etc etc affects the way the gpu works and if set wrongly it will give you the crashes that you are having. Only change the settings in "Select a program to customize" for the games that you are playing and for the best settings that these games need (see forums and/or the gaming best settings) and don't just believe and change these settings for no reason at all to those higher settings as default is always the best settings.

That is where you have gone wrong as the laptop is using the wrong graphics settings and its getting into trouble and causing you this and that "I keep getting a blue screen (quite a few times now)". With settings just remember this that and if you have a perfectly working system then 'if it aint broke don't fix it" as that is what you haven't done as you have done the reverse and have "fixed it when it wasn't broke and now its broke"     change the graphics settings back to default and do what I've suggested above and see if it fixes things? Also make sure that all windows drivers are up to date, and if the resting of NVIDIA settings didn't work then reinstall the last NVIDIA driver for the GTX-1650 which I have and its the GEFORCE GAME READY DRIVER Version: 512.95 WHQL, also make sure that your old driver is completely uninstalled and you install the GeForce Experience as you can use the best and most appropriate NVIDIA game settings for the games that you are playing for the GTX-1650 card.