My CPU usage randomly drops (help)

[GamingWithJumbo]

Hey, so I have a pretty low end potato laptop with i3 4005U, 4 gigs of ram (1600mhz most probably) and Intel HD Graphics 4400.

 

I installed GTA 5 (epic games store) and everytime I try to play it I get random fps drops.

 

I hooked up a XTU (intel Extreme Tuning Utility) and I kept it open as I play GTA 5.

 

Check the attached image. 

 

 

 

Anyone got any solutions?

and no, I can't buy a new pc/laptop rn

 

EDIT: soz im new here don't know where to put this

 

 

Edited May 25, 2020 by GamingWithJumbo
don't know where to put this

[5x5]

welcome to shared CPU/iGPU power limits. Nothing you can do about it.

[GamingWithJumbo]

1 minute ago, 5x5 said:

welcome to shared CPU/iGPU power limits. Nothing you can do about it.

 

 

no solution? 

sed life

[Statik]

I would recon it's because you're using an iGPU, while the requirements are low for GTA V, it still recommends an external GPU in the minimum requirements.

[5x5]

Just now, GamingWithJumbo said:

 

 

no solution? 

sed life

Not really. The CPU and iGPU have a grand total of 15 watts of power to share. No more, no less. And your GPU clockspeed is most certainly dropping at the times the CPU is dropping in utilization.

[GamingWithJumbo]

1 minute ago, 5x5 said:

Not really. The CPU and iGPU have a grand total of 15 watts of power to share. No more, no less. And your GPU clockspeed is most certainly dropping at the times the CPU is dropping in utilization.

will underclocking solve the issue? i suppose the temperature isn't the problem here, right?

[Statik]

3 minutes ago, GamingWithJumbo said:

will underclocking solve the issue? i suppose the temperature isn't the problem here, right?

Your temp looks steady, does it go higher than the 70Cish that it shows? The max temp for that is 100C, so it looks unlikely that you're thermal throttling, so I think all undervolting will do is just slow you down more, since your clock speed is very low to begin with.

[GamingWithJumbo]

Just now, Statik said:

Your temp looks steady, does it go higher than the 70Cish that it shows? The max temp for that is 100C, so it looks unlikely that you're thermal throttling, so I think all undervolting will do is just slow you down more, since your clock speed is very low to begin with.

Well actually no. The maximum recorded temperature I ever got is around 75 degrees celsius. Maybe 78 on the higher end. Doesn't go any hotter than that

[Statik]

Just now, GamingWithJumbo said:

Well actually no. The maximum recorded temperature I ever got is around 75 degrees celsius. Maybe 78 on the higher end. Doesn't go any hotter than that

Then you're under the max temp of 100C, so likely you're not thermal throttling. And if you were, I believe that it would be shown on that graph (you'd see you temp rise, then it would suddenly start to drop along with the clock speed).

[GamingWithJumbo]

3 minutes ago, Statik said:

Then you're under the max temp of 100C, so likely you're not thermal throttling. And if you were, I believe that it would be shown on that graph (you'd see you temp rise, then it would suddenly start to drop along with the clock speed).

Underclocking won't solve my issue? I thought my CPU would be more stable or something

[GamingWithJumbo]

7 minutes ago, Statik said:

Then you're under the max temp of 100C, so likely you're not thermal throttling. And if you were, I believe that it would be shown on that graph (you'd see you temp rise, then it would suddenly start to drop along with the clock speed).

Should I, limit my framerate to minimize the drop?

[Statik]

1 minute ago, GamingWithJumbo said:

Should I, limit my framerate to minimize the drop?

What do you mean? I don't think that will change much. You can try I suppose.

[Statik]

8 minutes ago, GamingWithJumbo said:

Underclocking won't solve my issue? I thought my CPU would be more stable or something

It's not that your CPU is unstable, it's that you're CPU + iGPU only have a combined 15W of power, and are having a hard time keeping up. For reference my 2080S and 3800x are pulling over 300W together. You're laptop is struggling to keep up. Right now it doesn't appear that thermals are an issue, so all underclocking will do is make your CPU run slower.

[5x5]

1 hour ago, GamingWithJumbo said:

Should I, limit my framerate to minimize the drop?

Underclocking is not possible and won't do anything. The issue is power limit throttling, not thermal throttling. All you can do is optimize settings and reduce the image quality with .ini edits. Check LowSpecGamer on youtube for that.

[GamingWithJumbo]

1 hour ago, Statik said:

What do you mean? I don't think that will change much. You can try I suppose.

I did try and nothing significant happened

1 hour ago, Statik said:

It's not that your CPU is unstable, it's that you're CPU + iGPU only have a combined 15W of power, and are having a hard time keeping up. For reference my 2080S and 3800x are pulling over 300W together. You're laptop is struggling to keep up. Right now it doesn't appear that thermals are an issue, so all underclocking will do is make your CPU run slower.

Oh alright, I get the point now. Thanks for clearing it up!

17 minutes ago, 5x5 said:

Underclocking is not possible and won't do anything. The issue is power limit throttling, not thermal throttling. All you can do is optimize settings and reduce the image quality with .ini edits. Check LowSpecGamer on youtube for that.

Sure I'll try that soon