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Dell XPS 15 gaming issues

n5duo
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I’ve had my xps 15 for about a two years now and the gaming performance on it has been abysmal. It has a i7, gtx 1050, 16gb of ram, and a 512 gb ssd. Any time I play a game it’ll start out at 60 FPS then drop to 30 FPS after a few minutes. Any ideas what to do?

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8 minutes ago, n5duo said:

I’ve had my xps 15 for about a two years now and the gaming performance on it has been abysmal. It has a i7, gtx 1050, 16gb of ram, and a 512 gb ssd. Any time I play a game it’ll start out at 60 FPS then drop to 30 FPS after a few minutes. Any ideas what to do?

What games are u playing and what's ur game settings ?

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HP Omen 16 | 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700HX | 16 GB DDR5 RAM | NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4060 8 GB | 512GB PCIe Gen4 NVMe TLC M.2 SSD |

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3 minutes ago, Tech Guru said:

What games are u playing and what's ur game settings ?

Rainbow six, Arkham knight, battlefront 2, csgo, fortnite. I run all of them at low and they still drop to 30 FPS after a few minutes. I tried running Arkham knight at high settings and it still ran at 60 for a few minutes then dropped. 

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Probably thermal throttling

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Thermal throttling may be..have u checked temp?

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HP Omen 16 | 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700HX | 16 GB DDR5 RAM | NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4060 8 GB | 512GB PCIe Gen4 NVMe TLC M.2 SSD |

16.1-inch (40.9 cm) 1920 x 1080 165Hz | RGB Backlit Keyboard |

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I have a 9570 and I think it throttles when unplugged from wall power so when on battery I also get 30 Fps.... this also was coherent with the CPU throttling when on battery I had a 1020 cinebench score and surprisingly on wall power a score or 1205...

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1 hour ago, Tech Guru said:

Thermal throttling may be..have u checked temp?

I’ve tried throttlestop, I put the core and cache voltages to -125, disabled turbo, turned on speedstep, and set the clock modulation to 100 but it doesn’t seem to work 

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1 hour ago, schwellmo92 said:

XPS 15 throttles hard under gaming, I have one. You can't game on it.

I used to be able to play games fine but it stopped a few months ago 

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14 minutes ago, n5duo said:

I used to be able to play games fine but it stopped a few months ago 

Tim degrades over time. 

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39 minutes ago, n5duo said:

I used to be able to play games fine but it stopped a few months ago 

Don't know what to tell you but the VRM is bad and they thermal throttle your CPU down to like 800MHz when they get hot.

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