Here is the problem I have been having for last 4 months:
After I bought my new Acer Swift315-51G in October, 2017 everything was running fine. So I'd decided to buy 2 games: Starcraft 2 and Guild Wars 2(both expansions). A couple of months gaming without any problems. Until the middle of January:
I have started getting FPS drops in both games or the so called stutters - from 60 down to 12 for 1-2 seconds, each 10 seconds. I tried other games aswell, same thing. It doesn't get fixed by lowering the graphics, so it has nothing to do with the game requirements. Still here are my PC specifications:
Intel® Core™ i7-7500U
RAM: 16 GB
NVIDIA MX150
To check whether I wasn't going mad, I downloaded even an old MMORPG from 2004 with the following requirements:
CPU | | PentiumIII 1.2GHz |
RAM | | 1GB |
Video Card | | 256MB |
Same story, I still get the stutters. The only thing that I can play right now on this computer are mobile games with the help of an emulator.
Here are the things that I have tried:
Complete Re-install of Windows
Uninstall/Install Drivers completely
Disable GameBar (even with the regedit)
Lower Graphics to minimum (not a change in the FPS drops, even worse)
Update to newest drivers everything
Set settings to higher performance (NVIDIA,Intel)
Contacted Microsoft Support more than 10-15 times, NVIDIA Forums.
From all the forums I have read it has to do something with the screen optimizations and Windows Updates.
Any clues, help, suggestions? Would it help if I gave my laptop to be looked over, since it still has it's warranty? Everything else: Videos, Browsers and etc. works fine, but once a game is started it begins to make these things. I repeat, those weren't appearing for a couple of months, so my best presumption is that it has to do something with a Windows Update. Sorry for the long thread and I hope anyone could help me.