Performance drop in Acer Nitro 5 laptop

Hello, I have an Acer Nitro 5 laptop which is around 7 months old. Back then it used to work good, it did not stutter at all in games and gave me a good frame rate, but now the performance has reduced a lot. I barely get the same FPS I used to get easily back then (same location, same weather) I matched it with old screenshots, temperatures are at 92C-93C (CPU) and 88-89(GPU) while gaming, I play on plain surface, I don't use a laptop cooling pad. I try to keep it clean and free from dust always, but I am not sure what happened to it.

Now it's just not giving the same performance anymore. Is it normal for a laptop to reduce its performance after some time? Is there a way to bring back old performance again? What could be causing the frame drop? Is it overheating? It ran with same temperatures before but gave me fine FPS, but now it doesn't anymore. Let me know what could be the problem and if it can be fixed or not.

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

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GAMING6698

@KrishJames123

After a hard gaming, need to apply new thermal paste mostly after 1 year but sometimes bad thermal paste dry fast and cause performance issue.
Default thermal paste is not good.
Your laptop temperature limit is 89°C means when your temperature reaches 89°C-90°C system start decreasing GPU/CPU clock speed(thermal throttling)to protect your components.
At that time you experience low fps,lag and shuttering in games.
In this case, don't play games it may damage your system

You are under warranty take advantage to it
Acer engineer will clean your laptop and apply new thermal paste so, send it to service centre
First log your case and get your case ID
Get in touch with acer costumer care in your region for that
http://www.acer.com/worldwide/
(They will ask your address,serial number etc to log your case)

William_mk2

KrishJames123

Kindly go through the details from link given below

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/612495/windows-10-optimization-guide-for-gaming/p1

William_mk2

@KrishJames123

Here are some of the steps to speed up your computer.

Try windows + r - on the run window - type msconfig - click ok

click on services

check - hide all microsoft services

click on disable all

click on startup

disable all the startup items

click on apply - ok - restart the computer. Loading process will be very fast now..

Note: You can always enable the services and startup items later or set it to normal startup from selective startup later on the General tab

Try windows + r - on the run window - type appwiz.cpl - click ok

it will show you the list of programs

remove all the unwanted third party programs.

Please don’t remove any drivers.

If you are not sure , please don’t remove it.

Try windows + r - on the run window type temp - click ok - it will show you the bunch of files - try ctrl + a - select all files - press the shift key and click on delete files

Try windows + r - on the run window type %temp% - click ok - It will show you the bunch of files - try ctrl + a - select all files - press the shift key and click on delete files

If you are not able to remove some files - click on skip and then click click on continue..

Try windows + r - on the run window - type cleanmgr - click ok

click on all the boxes except recycle bin and thumnail

Delete the items which are checked

Try windows x - on the menu - chose command prompt admin or power shell admin

click on yes

on the blue or black window type sfc /scannow

It will be running till 100 %

Try to do a chrome reset

open chrome

click on three dots on top right corner

click on settings

Scroll down - go to advanced

click on restore setting to default

you will see reset settings - cancel

click on reset settings

Open chrome

it will work faster now

If it is still not working then we have to do a refresh and reset

click on start - settings - update and security - recovery - reset this pc - get started

or

on start - type here to search - type reset this pc - click on reset this pc on the top - click on get started

It will show you keep my files and remove everything

chose keep my files

chose the account - type the password - click on local reinstall - click on reset

It will be in progress..

login to computer and start using the computer.

If it is still not working

click on start - settings - update and security - recovery - reset this pc - get started

chose remove everything

click on local reinstall - just remove my files - click on reset

It will be in progress

Note:

If you do refresh ( keep my files ) - all your personal files like pictures, music , documents , videos will still be intact. Only the applications will be lost

If you do reset ( remove everything ) - you are doing a factory default. It will become like a day one computer. It will wipe out everything and take your computer to day one like a new computer.

You can also do the recovery in an alternative way..

There are two alt keys on the keyboard. If you look at the bottom row of keyboard you can see the one on the left side of space bar and the other on the right side of space bar. The alt key on the right side will be looking like alt, alt gr or alt car. Turn off the computer. Hold the alt key on the left and tap f10 continuously. It will go to repair mode. It will show you chose an option, continue, troubleshoot. If it is not going to repair mode, turn off the computer. Turn on the computer. Hold the right alt key ( alt gr or alt car or alt ) and then tap f10 continuously. It will go to chose an option continue and troubleshoot..

It will show you chose an option, continue, troubleshoot

Go to troubleshoot - click on reset this pc

click on keep my files ( only applications will be lost ) chose your account and type your password - click on local reinstall - click on reset

It will be in progress

If the keep my files option is not working

Go to troubleshoot - click on reset this pc – click on remove everything – click on local reinstall – just remove my files – click on reset

It will reinstall windows.

If the just remove my files is not working..

Go to troubleshoot - click on reset this pc – click on remove everything – click on local reinstall – Fully clean the drive – click on reset

It will reinstall windows.

Note: You can also go to chose an option , continue , troubleshoot by holding the alt key + tapping f10 or alt gr + tapping f10 on the keyboard while turning on the computer. Once you see the troubleshoot option, you can stop tapping the f10 and stop holding the alt key. Then you can try the keep my files and remove everything ( just remove by files and fully clean the drive ) by following the steps which was mentioned above.

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