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Hi. I was playing GTA V on my laptop when the game suddenly started stuttering. I then closed the game and started monitoring the cpu and gpu. I ran several benchmarks and saw that my cpu is not going above 50%. This is the screenshot of the cpu on task manager. Please help me fix it. 

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Did you set the power settings to high performance?

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Just now, MartinKweh said:

Did you set the power settings to high performance?

Yes they are at high performance. i double checked it.

 

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Make sure game mode is turned off. If that doesn't help another troubleshooting step here

 

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Are you plugged in or on battery

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12 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

Make sure game mode is turned off. If that doesn't help another troubleshooting step here

 

Bro game mode is off i use dedicated amd radeon settings for the game. And yes it is not just happening with the game it is also happening with intel xtu benchmarks.

 

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i only have 2 cores in my cpu
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10 minutes ago, piratemonkey said:

Are you plugged in or on battery

Tried both same result

 

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39 minutes ago, Ayush K said:

And yes it is not just happening with the game it is also happening with intel xtu benchmarks.

missed that, sorry.

I've read a half dozen "try these" in here, may be worth your time https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings-winpc/windows-10-only-use-half-of-max-cpu-speed/d97b219f-10ee-4a42-a0fc-d517c1b60be8?page=1

And of course there's the oft overlooked restart the machine step that tends to get overlooked. Hope something works for ya...

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1 hour ago, Ayush K said:

Hi. I was playing GTA V on my laptop

Does the game always stutter, or only after you play it for a while?

 

1 hour ago, Ayush K said:

I then closed the game and started monitoring the cpu and gpu. I ran several benchmarks and saw that my cpu is not going above 50%.

How long between when you closed the game and when you started the benchmarks up?

Have you run these benchmarks before this issue, and not experienced this low component usage?

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8 hours ago, straight_stewie said:

Does the game always stutter, or only after you play it for a while?

 

How long between when you closed the game and when you started the benchmarks up?

Have you run these benchmarks before this issue, and not experienced this low component usage?

1 - It started stuttering 2 days ago when i was playing GTA V as always. My laptop is a low end but manages 26-30 fps at low in game. No, it never stuttered before.

2 - About 10 minutes because i did not have a benchmarking software.

3 - No i never ran any benchmarks before. 

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9 hours ago, Cyracus said:

missed that, sorry.

I've read a half dozen "try these" in here, may be worth your time https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings-winpc/windows-10-only-use-half-of-max-cpu-speed/d97b219f-10ee-4a42-a0fc-d517c1b60be8?page=1

And of course there's the oft overlooked restart the machine step that tends to get overlooked. Hope something works for ya...

Thanks for the help but it solved my problem only for a minute or so. Also one thing I just noticed is that only one of my cpu cores are working at a time. Look at the graph in task manager.

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I just got something else.

I started chrome in background, ran the benchmark along with cpu stress test and then ran GTA V and saw that utilization actually jumped to 100%. But as soon as i closed chrome and stopped the benchmark, one core maxed out again and the second, again doing nothing. Screenshot:

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4 hours ago, Ayush K said:

1 - It started stuttering 2 days ago when i was playing GTA V as always

So it was working just fine and then two days ago suddenly stopped working correctly?

 

If it was working fine, and then suddenly stopped, it means that something changed. Our task now is to find out what exactly changed.

Can you think of anything that might have changed? Did any software do an update in that timeframe? Did you change where you put your laptop while gaming? Did you change any Windows, Steam, or game settings? Did you install any new software at that time? Did anything at all change that you can think of?

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Have you checked your temperatures?

 

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2 hours ago, straight_stewie said:

So it was working just fine and then two days ago suddenly stopped working correctly?

 

If it was working fine, and then suddenly stopped, it means that something changed. Our task now is to find out what exactly changed.

Can you think of anything that might have changed? Did any software do an update in that timeframe? Did you change where you put your laptop while gaming? Did you change any Windows, Steam, or game settings? Did you install any new software at that time? Did anything at all change that you can think of?

I updated my windows version to 20H2. Nothing else

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1 hour ago, bigmac999 said:

Have you checked your temperatures?

 

max temperature was 69c and average was 67c.

 

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1 hour ago, LogicalDrm said:

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Uh.. so?

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1 hour ago, Ayush K said:

max temperature was 69c and average was 67c.

 

hmm should not be throttling 

btw in GTA 5 is your display setting set to fullscreen or fullscreen windowed

best is set to fullscreen because this could cause some fps problem on laptops

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2 hours ago, Ayush K said:

Uh.. so?

Please look before posting next time. Dumping threads to General Discussion is something we don't really like.

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29 minutes ago, bigmac999 said:

hmm should not be throttling 

btw in GTA 5 is your display setting set to fullscreen or fullscreen windowed

best is set to fullscreen because this could cause some fps problem on laptops

I have tried full screen and full screen borderless but mostly i play in full screen.

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8 hours ago, Ayush K said:

I updated my windows version to 20H2. Nothing else

Do you have backups? Can you unroll the update and see if it fixes the issue?

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7 hours ago, straight_stewie said:

Do you have backups? Can you unroll the update and see if it fixes the issue?

Tried that when i was searching for a fix myself but i found something. When i was browsing the installed updates i found that 5 intel driver updates have also been installed. Can this relate to the problem?updates.thumb.PNG.cc1aa53e918fa6c52ec6985c5d313131.PNG 

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2 hours ago, Ayush K said:

When i was browsing the installed updates i found that 5 intel driver updates have also been installed. Can this relate to the problem?

What date did you notice the stuttering on? The 20th or the 21st?

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12 hours ago, straight_stewie said:

What date did you notice the stuttering on? The 20th or the 21st?

Neither 20 nor 21 i noticed it on 2 oct 

Because i went to my second home for some days and left it in my first home

i returned on 1 oct and played on 2 oct

By the way, do these driver updates relate to the problem?

 

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