Major fps stuttering

[jpm_]

Hi first off I want to say thank you for viewing this post this is my first time on the fourm/site, but straight to the point I got a laptop from a friend because my old one finally cut out and he gave me his old one and I do school work and play games on this but when I play games I notice it has a really bad fps stutter to it from like 200 fps down to 40 in less than half a second and it is a constant stutter like every second it happens which really gets annoying after a while. I've tried many things including a factory reset which did nothing but make it worse somehow and I have tried contacting ASUS support and they said since I already did a factory reset to send in the unit for repair which could cost around $690 (which I am obviously not doing for obvious reasons) the laptop model is a ROG G551JW. Also restarting the laptop a few times seems to lessen the problem I really don't know how but it doesn't always fix it but sometimes it does if I do it a few times. Thanks for reading this post feel free to ask for any information you need and thank you for the help!

 

Things I have tried:

Factory resetting (made the problem worse)

Checking the temperatures (Everything is normal and the problem starts off of a cold boot)

Reinstalling windows

Reinstalling GPU drivers

Turning on high performance

Nothing is spiking in Task Manager that I can see

 

 

Keep in mind this is my first post here or on any help fourm really so if I messed up please let me know.

 

[Jurrunio]

how old is this?

[Opencircuit74]

Check the hard drive using CrystalDiskInfo, that could cause the problem (unless it's installed on the SSD).

[jpm_]

I'm not really sure on how old the laptop is but the OS is installed on the SSD it has three drives 1 SSD and 2 HDDs @Opencircuit74 and thank you for the speedy replies @Opencircuit74 and @Jurrunio

[Opencircuit74]

Just now, jpm_ said:

I'm not really sure on how old the laptop is but the OS is installed on the SSD it has three drives 1 SSD and 2 HDDs @Opencircuit74 and thank you for the speedy replies @Opencircuit74 and @Jurrunio

Sorry, I meant if your game is on the hard drive, it could be causing the stuttering. Laptop hard drives are usually slower than regular ones, and can cause you to have FPS drops (Can't load the resources fast enough). 

[Jurrunio]

Just suspecting VRM overheating, their thermal pads can break and no longer stay in places they should be

[jpm_]

@Jurrunio I am not really sure what that is to be honest sorry I'm not the best when it comes to this stuff and @Opencircuit74 The games are fairly old and low requirements should be able to run just fine and I've switched the games between hard drives to test if they still stuttered (they did)

[jpm_]

@Jurrunio

[Jurrunio]

2 minutes ago, jpm_ said:

@Jurrunio I am not really sure what that is to be honest sorry I'm not the best when it comes to this stuff and @Opencircuit74 The games are fairly old and low requirements should be able to run just fine and I've switched the games between hard drives to test if they still stuttered (they did)

then there's not much I can help. Not like I can get your machine on hand.

[jpm_]

Thank you for trying @Jurrunio

[Srnewbee]

i think its nvidia driver problem with optimus. google it and you wil know my friend.

[voiha]

What that @Jurrunio guy wanted to say I guess is basically this:

VRM is short cut to Voltage regulator module.
This, is what deliver the power to our GPU.
These little thingies, convert the power from the PSU, to a much lower volt in order to keep the GPU in safe working volts.

 

You sure that your GPU temps are fine ? Because my last laptop the Vram chips because of overheating had started to dissolve and place out. 

 

tl;dr I had to replace them because of the poor cooling solution from the laptop manufacturer, just to find out that the problem will appear again. I gave up and sold the laptop.
I really hope that's not the case.

 

My symptoms were, throttling GPU (GPU undervolt itself thus lower the fps tremendesly so it can cool itself)
Shutting itself down after continues gaming.

[jpm_]

@voiha I did a stress test with Furmark and HWMoniter on the side if this will help but here you go and @Srnewbee I will look in to this thank you both also this photo is before I updated my driver

[Srnewbee]

Remember, go to nvidia control panel and manually set the games to use nvidia gpu as opposed to the integrated gfx. This is a common problem in nvidia card laptops. The switching mechanism between integrated and dedicated is called optimus. Never trust it! The default is usually power saving so integrated card is used in improper places.

[jpm_]

@Srnewbee I've tried switching it not sure if I have optimus or not.