Enabeling Graphics Card Slows Performance?

[Talkingstreet]

I need some advice,

i was gifted a new laptop, the Thinkpad E490 with an Intel i5-8265U and a Radeon RX 550X.

Before enabeling the GPU with the driver, I played Kerbal Space Pogramm for a few days, with no mods and unchanged grafics settings. It was running smooth on the integrated UHD Graphics 620 chip.

After installing the AMD Radeon Software, now using the "real" GPU and enabeling Anti-Lag and Enhanced-Sinc for KSP, but no Imagesharpening or Chill, the Framerate dropped significantly making the game nearly unplayable. Even in the "build mode" there were lots of lags.

I couldn´t find a reason for this, so i would be happy about some solutions to fix this problem.

[Levent]

What you described makes no sense nor gives us any clue to help you.. Try troubleshooting by monitor your iGPU and dGPU usage, that should show you which GPU is being used (use GPUZ to monitor, not task manager)

[Srijan Verma]

Wondering if you were earlier on playing on the dgpu and accidently now switched to igpu

[Talkingstreet]

@Srijan VermaNo, at this point i had no driver installed, so it (dGPU) was not used for games at all and showing 0% usage, the iGPU was showing up to 100%.

 

But here are the readouts:

Timestamps: 33:00 Starting the Game

                          :45 Fully Loaded

                      34:40 launching a rocket

Note: I experience more lag when landing on a planet or moon, but it would have been an enormous amount of data.

 

GPU-Z Sensor Log.txt

[Srijan Verma]

Can you just share the task manager graphs when you get lag spikes?

 

[Talkingstreet]

i am experiencing lag spikes when the gpu usage drops.

[TomvanWijnen]

Are you plugged into the wall or running on the battery while playing? I've had issues with my GPU not ramping up to full speed on battery.

[Srijan Verma]

Is it possible that the game settings increased by itself on recognizing the gpu?

[Talkingstreet]

I reseted the settings and had a go, but there are still lag spikes about every 3 seconds when launching and more when landing and they still corespond with the GPU dipping down in performance. (As in the second half of the GPU Graph it´s going up and down and up and down)

[Talkingstreet]

@TomvanWijnenI am pluged in, but I will check if there is any perfomance throttle enabled in the devices settings under certain conditions.

[Talkingstreet]

Thank you for your help, but I think I found the issue, there was a safety feauture preenabled, that throttled everything to keep the charging device save when on an airplane, it was on auto and as far as I could find out, that means it basically just does things randomly 

[Vasyl Malanka]

@Talkingstreet, hi! I would be really grateful if you would write what did you do exactly. I am fighting the same issues.