Really really weird things happening with my - Nitro 5 AN515-43

XxmatrixX
XxmatrixX Member Posts: 64 Devotee WiFi Icon
edited November 2023 in 2020 Archives
Okay so I have an Acer Nitro 5 AN515-43, I've always had this lag and stuttering issue when plugged in.
Even when I played the least graphic intensive game I had horrible 10-20 fps, even csgo gave me 15 fps at lowest settings when plugged in, valorant gave me 17-20 fps at lowest settings, 
So I decided to game on battery for once to check out what's the outcome, and to my utter surprise I had constant 60-70 fps on Valorant and it never ever went down below 60 even once. Can someone please please explain what the hell is happening?? CSGO gave me 50 fps at high settings when playing on battery, guys please help me out!

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  • Hahaha
    Hahaha Member Posts: 243 Practitioner WiFi Icon
    edited October 2020 Answer ✓
    The wrong GPU is running while charging. Go to control panel(for nvidia or amd whichever you have) and select preferred graphics processor. Set it to your dedicated GPU. 
    The computer should select the integrated GPU while on battery but in your case it seems that it prefers to go along with the other one. Nothing wrong here. You just end up with quicker battery drain. 

    Besides, if you want to confirm whether this is the issue then try launching a game straight from its exe file in the installed folder. Right click on the exe->select run with graphics processor->select the dedicated one. If this causes the games to give better performance then it means the computer’s not auto selecting properly and you need to manually assign preferred one as I explained above. Note that launching straight from the exe means it will have to be game without DRM. Try it on some cracked game, because very very few games from steam or Epic can be launched this way. 

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  • Hahaha
    Hahaha Member Posts: 243 Practitioner WiFi Icon
    edited October 2020 Answer ✓
    The wrong GPU is running while charging. Go to control panel(for nvidia or amd whichever you have) and select preferred graphics processor. Set it to your dedicated GPU. 
    The computer should select the integrated GPU while on battery but in your case it seems that it prefers to go along with the other one. Nothing wrong here. You just end up with quicker battery drain. 

    Besides, if you want to confirm whether this is the issue then try launching a game straight from its exe file in the installed folder. Right click on the exe->select run with graphics processor->select the dedicated one. If this causes the games to give better performance then it means the computer’s not auto selecting properly and you need to manually assign preferred one as I explained above. Note that launching straight from the exe means it will have to be game without DRM. Try it on some cracked game, because very very few games from steam or Epic can be launched this way. 
  • XxmatrixX
    XxmatrixX Member Posts: 64 Devotee WiFi Icon
    Hahaha said:
    The wrong GPU is running while charging. Go to control panel(for nvidia or amd whichever you have) and select preferred graphics processor. Set it to your dedicated GPU. 
    The computer should select the integrated GPU while on battery but in your case it seems that it prefers to go along with the other one. Nothing wrong here. You just end up with quicker battery drain. 

    Besides, if you want to confirm whether this is the issue then try launching a game straight from its exe file in the installed folder. Right click on the exe->select run with graphics processor->select the dedicated one. If this causes the games to give better performance then it means the computer’s not auto selecting properly and you need to manually assign preferred one as I explained above. Note that launching straight from the exe means it will have to be game without DRM. Try it on some cracked game, because very very few games from steam or Epic can be launched this way. 
    Umm this is not the one, My discrete GPU always turns on when playing games, I fixed it, the problem was with the processor power management, in max state it was at 98% when plugged in so made it to 99 and now it worked flawless, anyways thank you so much for your input and time!!
  • Hahaha
    Hahaha Member Posts: 243 Practitioner WiFi Icon
    hmm that's something I hadn't thought of. Welp...learned something new

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