Need Help ! ! !

[Rahul Raina]

Hi guys! I need a little help with my Laptop's lagging . when i start a game everything runs fine but after like 20 mins of playing (mostly on low or medium settings) the frames drop from 60 fps to 1 - 10 fps for about 5 minutes . it keeps happening continuously after irregular intervals. MY laptops config. is given below:

 

HP Laptop 15-bs0xx

storage : ST1000LM035-1RK172 - 931.51 GB

OS : Windows 10 Pro 64-bit 

 

Graphics Card Manufacturer :Powered by AMD

Graphics Chipset :AMD Radeon (TM) R5 M330

Memory Size  :2048 MB

Memory Clock :1000 MHz

Core Clock :1030 MHz

Total Memory Bandwidth :16 GByte/s

Memory Bit Rate :2.00 Gbps

Current Bus Settings :PCI Express 3.0 x4

 

CPU Type
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz

 

System Memory
8 GB

[SpaceGhostC2C]

Monitor your temperatures. You can use some program like OpenHWMonitor, just keep it open while gaming and quickly switch to it when the drops occur (or make it plot the history of temps so you can check afterwards). Some component may be getting too warm while playing.

[hconverse02]

Replace the thermal place?

[Rahul Raina]

31 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Monitor your temperatures. You can use some program like OpenHWMonitor, just keep it open while gaming and quickly switch to it when the drops occur (or make it plot the history of temps so you can check afterwards). Some component may be getting too warm while playing.

what do you think (btw I was playing Fortnite)

[emosun]

Your cpu and gpu are massively overheating

[Rahul Raina]

1 minute ago, emosun said:

Your cpu and gpu are massively overheating

any suggestions

[emosun]

4 minutes ago, Rahul Raina said:

any suggestions

replace thermal paste , lower the room temp , lower your game settings , set the fan speeds to maximum.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

20 hours ago, Rahul Raina said:

any suggestions

Make sure you are placing your laptop on a surface that doesn't block any air intakes or exhausts. Also check that any cooling options are maxed out (balanced power plans or while running off battery will lead laptops to economize on fan rpm). If that's already the case, you may need to lower game settings, or perhaps considering some external cooling solution (like a cooling stand or a blower attachment, although I've never tried the latter nor know if it's good for internal fans to force airflow like that).

[Ace McPlane]

22 hours ago, Rahul Raina said:

what do you think (btw I was playing Fortnite)

Holy crap those are bad temps!

Considering the fact that your GPU is also at that high of a temp, I wouldn't suspect the thermal paste.

You probably just have a dust bunny that's literally the size of a bunny in there

Pick up one or two air cans and dust it out while being sure to hold it upright, not shake the can, and only use small bursts since liquid can come out if you just hold it down willy nilly..

If that happens by accident, just give it an hour or two to evaporate before starting it up again.

Also, check to see if ifixit has a guide for you laptop so you can disassemble it and really clean it out.

It's really easy to break a laptop taking it apart though. They're not easy to get back together so don't do that without a guide and the right tools.

 

It couldn't hurt to go into the bios and see if you can set a more aggressive fan curve and then using overclocking software like MSI afterburner to make a more aggressive GPU fan curve as well.

Just don't OC anything with temps like that!

[ElSeniorTaco]

You can use speedfan or hwinfo to increase the speed of the fans on board if your chipset is compatible with these programs.

But I would invest in some good thermal paste as others have suggested and replace it

And also what stateofpsychosis said, there is most likely a lot of dust inside, I found a wad of what looked like dryer lint in my Alienware once, it was literally half an inch thick..

If so, you might have to consider that your fan can be dying from being strangled to death by dust and what not.

It might not be, but I would start by tearing down the laptop and cleaning all the dust from it, then seeing if the fans spin up at full speed properly (assuming you know what properly is in your specific case), if they are going a little slow then they might need to be replaced.

if that doesn't fix it, you need to replace the paste for sure, although depending on how old the computer is, it might be a good idea to replace the paste anyhow.