-- My laptop info. --
Laptop spec: ACER Nitro 5 AN515-43 AMD Ryzen 5 3550H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx (4 cores) 2.10 GHz, operating on Windows 10.
RAM: Installed RAM is 16.0 GB (13.9 GB useable)
Usage: roughly 2 years.
GPU1: AMD Radeon(TM) Vega 8 Graphics [Integrated/Primary]
GPU2: Radeon RX 560X Series [Hybrid/Discrete]
-- Problem --
Hey there, I've been using my laptop for quite some time, and whenever I play ANY games, it has a lag spike occasionally; each time taking around 1 second to 5 seconds, sometimes it's more frequent than the other. It always happened during 2 years I owned it, I had asked my friend who used almost the same spec as mine, considering that he might added some extra components that he forgot to tell me. He said that he never had a problem like mine.
I play Terraria. Sometimes the lag is subtle but still noticeable. I never really get it checked at the store I bought because I mostly uses it for work at that time and the lag is tolerable: it often irritates me, but that's not the point. I had set the GPU for Terraria to be RADEON RX 560X Series and not AMD Radeon(TM) Vega 8 as ven98 suggested in this post: https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/561400/why-my-acer-nitro-5-cant-play-games, it, however, didn't work.
Recently I tried turning on CoolBoost, but it didn't work. I'm thinking of disassembling the laptop and clean the dust on the fan, but I don't want to risk damaging some components right now. I scanned and removed some suspicious file with Virus protection (RAV Endpoint protection), downloaded VGA driver, made sure that the battery is running in maximum performance—I didn't try setting Terraria on the highest priority in Task Manager after changing the GPU that it ran on, from Vega 8 to RX 560X, but I doubted that it'd work—I don't have much knowledge on these things, so I don't know what else to do. The attacked screenshot are what I think might be helpful.
-- Attached files --
Picture 1: Screenshot of Radeon RX 560X Series GPU in Radeon Software as I play Terraria. It always lags whenever the spike in Utilization graph occurs.
Picture 2: Screenshot of Radeon RX 560X Series GPU in Task Manager as I play Terraria.
Picture 3: Screenshot of AMD Radeon(TM) Vega 8 Graphics GPU as in Task Manager as I play Terraria. I had no idea how it's the Vega 8 that has a high temperature and not the RX 560X one that I chose in Windows setting to run Terraria on.
P.S. If more information is needed, please inform. If possible, I'd also like to know why these things happen, like the cause of it, so that when I have a future problem I'd know a bit more on how to deal with it. Thanks in advance! :D
