Acer Predator 17 Performance Issues

[DevinRocker]

Hey all,

 

Sorry I'm kind of new to the forum. I've been battling issues on my gaming laptop for several months now so I thought I should ask some smart people who might actually know whats going on. I recently bought an Acer Predator laptop. Its the 17 inch model with an i7 and a gtx 1070: I believe the model is G9-793. I wanted it to be overkill so every game would run great. I had very good luck with it at first with Rise of the Tomb Raider and VR games like Robo Recall. I tried out final fantasy xv before buying it and it played pretty smooth - with a stutter every now and then that I thought the special k mod would fix. Shortly after this I startrd getting blue screen errors with the code Driver power state failure. None of the troubleshooting things online worked so I reibstalled a clean version of windows 10. Now I am having strange performance issues in games. Rise of the tomb raider still runs smoothly - even when the fps drops, it appears smooth. However, games like gta v, and final fantasy xv have a ton of microstutter that is very apparent when using a controller. Even borderlands 2 has this to an extent. I bought ffxv through steam and the special k mod did not work at all. I used malwarebytes to check for bitcoin miners with no results. I'm worried that some of my drivers might not be working properly. I know my graphics card driver is up to date but I dont know how to do other drivers. If its a game software issue, I dont understand why my computer cant run ffxv on the medium or high preset without stutter. 

 

I'd really appreciate any thoughts and suggestions. 

 

Thanks!

--Devin