Please Help - Gaming Bottlenecking Issues

[iCessna]

Hello everyone!

 

To start off, I have an Acer Nitro 53 (2019) Gaming Laptop. Core i5 8300h, an NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti graphics card, a 256 Gb SSD internal + 500gb external ssd over usb 3.1, plus 32gb RAM (upgraded from 8). Screen is 120hz panel (self upgraded from 60hz panel). 

My main issue is gaming. I kid you not, in the new Modern warfare at mid/high settings, my graphics card sits at a cool 5-10% usage, RAM at 20% MAX and my CPU is almost always pegged at 100%. The bottleneck is just killing my performance in almost every AAA title. I’m not sure what to do about this. 
 

I ALWAYS run with the laptop plugged in and all setting are set to max performance instead of stupid power saver (thanks laptops) but it’s been an issue since day one. 
 

I plan on building a tower PC eventually but in the mean time, does anyone have any suggestions that might help me on this? 
 

Thank you in advance!!!

[SlayerOfHellWyrm]

You very well may be running off the iGPU instead of the Nvidia 1050Ti. To check this, make sure it's set to use the 1050Ti in the Nvidia control panel, and double-check which GPU is in use via Task Manager when you are running the game.