Sudden Slow down playing games

[Raginryuu]

HELP?? Started less than a week ago, but I was fine playing games like valorant and minecraft. But suddenly I went from 40s fps down to less than 20 fps (roughly, but it was basically difficult to play). Attached is my collected data.

-Temps in Minecraft throttled in the beginning of launching but went back down to  the steady temps shown.
-CPU(i7-7700HQ)/GPU(GTX1050) utilization may be high? I'm not sure how much should be utilized when playing

-All drivers updated
-No background apps
-I still have 400+ gb SSD storage

-Definitely not my ram as I have 32gbs

[Raginryuu]

Note: This is all being played on my 2017 HP OMEN-15T if that matters since I know laptop vs desktops hardware are different etc etc.

[Statik]

Hmm it appears your CPU is running a little hot. Is there any way you can change the fan curve/clean it out to try to drop the temps a bit? You might be getting in the thermal throttle range, as the 7700HQ thermal throttles at 100C.

[Raginryuu]

The 100C is from loading into the minecraft world, at which would go back down and steady at 60s. I watch the temps for just under 10 minutes to be sure. But yes I cleared out all dust out. Fan curve is stock and have never touched it.

Thanks for the thought. My friend said that it could be the thermal paste could be dried out, but I would assume that it would be too early for tat and maybe the temps would be higher for that to happen
 

4 minutes ago, Statik said:

Hmm it appears your CPU is running a little hot. Is there any way you can change the fan curve/clean it out to try to drop the temps a bit? You might be getting in the thermal throttle range, as the 7700HQ thermal throttles at 100C.

 

[Statik]

18 minutes ago, Raginryuu said:

The 100C is from loading into the minecraft world, at which would go back down and steady at 60s. I watch the temps for just under 10 minutes to be sure. But yes I cleared out all dust out. Fan curve is stock and have never touched it.

Thanks for the thought. My friend said that it could be the thermal paste could be dried out, but I would assume that it would be too early for tat and maybe the temps would be higher for that to happen
 

 

Yeah if your paste needed replacing you'd be having thermal issues.

 

Are you sure you're using your dedicated GPU? It says it peaked at 100% utilization, but the temps don't really reflect that, yet your dedicated GPU temps are nice and toasty.

 

 

[Raginryuu]

I'll try replacing the thermal paste tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

But yes the games are in fact using the dedicated 1050 and not the on-board graphics.
 

17 hours ago, Statik said:

Yeah if your paste needed replacing you'd be having thermal issues.

 

Are you sure you're using your dedicated GPU? It says it peaked at 100% utilization, but the temps don't really reflect that, yet your dedicated GPU temps are nice and toasty.

 

 

 

[Raginryuu]

Conclusion: Thermal paste did help with temperatures getting the CPU to id to high 50s as well as the GPU to mid 40s. Frame rates did increase to more than playable, but not as high as before. I'll honestly take it and be happy that my computer can run games again