Travelmate P2 extreme infrequency in performance

Wina_rvi

So I've had my travelmate P2 for 3 months now, it had a decent CPU: Core-i7 11th gen with an ok graphics card Nvidia MX330, but the performance is soooo infrequent. Sometimes I try to play CSGO and it runs on 80 FPS smoothly while other times it can barely run on 30 FPS. Also when I try to run games like battlefield 1, it either runs on semi smooth 60 FPS or 5 FPS. And the worst of them all is when it cannot even run the main menus on games when it has this performance issue, though I have found a not so very consistent method to get better performance which is elevating the laptop for better ventilation. It still kinda sucks. The weirdest thing is that I get better FPS sometimes when I unplug my laptop!

Also, thisbad performance happens sometimes when the battery is at 100% so it's not a battery problem, it's something

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Wina_rvi

Also I don't think it's mainly a heat problem, because one day I tried to play in the unheated room (it was freezing cold, below 0 C°) and it had the same performance problem

billsey

It's likely an app running in the background that sometimes takes up lots of resources and sometimes doesn't. Are you still running the stock antivirus that came bundled? IIRC that only is licensed for 90 days and after that if you don't purchase a renewal it can really slow things down.