Is my SSD causing FPS drops?

[huebear55]

Hello,

I have a lenovo 700-15isk laptop and recently its causing a game Im playing to have a lot of fps spikes (going up and down). Before I have never had this problem but it happened about 3 weeks ago.
Ive checked with my GPU and CPU, the usages of both are the same as usual, so goes for the temperature. I have contacted the support of the game to see if they could help me.
They claim that it might be my SSD cause it has a lot of spikes in the reading performance. Ive done a benchmark test with the program HDTune and there happens to be a lot of spikes in the reading speed. The results can be found here:

https://imgur.com/a/7eGTrQz

 

Now Im not sure if its actually the SSD or not, Im wiling to buy a new one but since SSD doesnt really effect FPS directly Im not sure if it will solve the problem.
My question is if anyone maybe had a similiar problem or nows whats causing the FPS to spike so much?

[Joshcanread]

which game?

 

[huebear55]

@Joshcanread Black Desert online

[BigDamn]

Slow disk speeds don't lower your FPS. If your disk was at fault you'd see more freezing/stuttering than FPS drops. Considering your laptop isn't designed for gaming, the blame certainly goes to the CPU/GPU. Ensure your graphics options are as low as they go and that you're not blocking any vents.

[huebear55]

@BigDamn I doubt thats the issue, Ive been playing this game before the problem occured on a stable 120fps.

Since you mentioned freezing/stuttering I should've added the FPS can go down to below 20 which feels like a freeze as well

[BigDamn]

Just now, huebear55 said:

@BigDamn I doubt thats the issue, Ive been playing this game before the problem occured on a stable 120fps.

Since you mentioned freezing/stuttering I should've added the FPS can go down to below 20 which feels like a freeze as well

It's possible a game update has hurt performance. Consider this, if you haven't changed anything and this is the only application having issues, it's likely out of your control. Since you mentioned CPU/GPU usage, could you share what those numbers were?

 

Also, a freeze is 0fps, not 20.

[huebear55]

My CPU usage hovers around 70-80% with 60-65 degrees

My GPU usage hovers from 80-100% with the same degrees

[BigDamn]

9 minutes ago, huebear55 said:

My CPU usage hovers around 70-80% with 60-65 degrees

My GPU usage hovers from 80-100% with the same degrees

When your CPU usage spikes your GPU usage likely drops. 100% GPU usage means you're maxing it out, which is good, but you can't squeeze more performance out of it.

[huebear55]

So would you say its nothing hardware related then?