3050 Ti Laptop Bad FPS

[Adryax]

Good, a friend has a normal laptop with a 3050 Ti 4GB and a 5800H and is trying to run Age of Empires 4 but no matter the graphics settings you put it always goes to 10-15 fps when Youtube videos to other people with the same settings reach 60 fps and sometimes exceed them in high qualities.

We have done driver cleaning and have found that the game is pulling the dedicated graphics, in addition to many other Windows settings and in the Nvidia control panel.

What could it be due to?

[Snusarn]

Hmm ask your friend to download GPU-Z and ask him/her to go to the Tab "Sensors" and look for "GPU Load" he/she also needs to make sure the 3050 Ti is selected.
he/she also needs to make sure that GPU-Z doesn't close when launching AoE4, play a match for 5 min and then ask your friend to check the "GPU Load" if the GPU load hasn't hit like 80-100% then the 3050 Ti isn't really being used in-game at all.

[grraf]

Also have they/them check to see if the card isn't automatically being throttled because its a risk of overheating... often times ventilation is rather poorly handled for laptops/the rather small exhaust holes are clogged by dust/dirt so heat isn't properly dissipated.
Another thing to look out for is not having the laptop set into some weird hybrid power saving mode that auto limits how much the power hungry 3050 is allowed to use during peak loads.

[Adryax]

Originally posted by Snusarn:

Hmm ask your friend to download GPU-Z and ask him/her to go to the Tab "Sensors" and look for "GPU Load" he/she also needs to make sure the 3050 Ti is selected.
he/she also needs to make sure that GPU-Z doesn't close when launching AoE4, play a match for 5 min and then ask your friend to check the "GPU Load" if the GPU load hasn't hit like 80-100% then the 3050 Ti isn't really being used in-game at all.

We have checked that AoE4 is working with the dedicated graphics card but we can't explain why it doesn't reach 60 fps even with the lowest settings of the game.

Originally posted by grraf:

Also have they/them check to see if the card isn't automatically being throttled because its a risk of overheating... often times ventilation is rather poorly handled for laptops/the rather small exhaust holes are clogged by dust/dirt so heat isn't properly dissipated.
Another thing to look out for is not having the laptop set into some weird hybrid power saving mode that auto limits how much the power hungry 3050 is allowed to use during peak loads.

All temperatures are correct and the graphics card reaches its maximum wattage of 75 watts, the fans work fine and the computer continues to work as it should. The laptop has been bought recently and in the other games it has not had any problem except for this one.

[1337Cammy]

Originally posted by Adryax:

Good, a friend has a normal laptop with a 3050 Ti 4GB and a 5800H and is trying to run Age of Empires 4 but no matter the graphics settings you put it always goes to 10-15 fps when Youtube videos to other people with the same settings reach 60 fps and sometimes exceed them in high qualities.

We have done driver cleaning and have found that the game is pulling the dedicated graphics, in addition to many other Windows settings and in the Nvidia control panel.

What could it be due to?

Make sure that your game is running on your dedicated GPU (3050ti) instead of your onboard solution of your CPU.

[TowerRushEnjoyer]

I also play on laptop, make sure to plug in to power when playing. If I play on battery the frame rates are bad, plugged in, smooth as on my Gaming Pc

[Adryax]

Originally posted by Seige Tower OP:

I also play on laptop, make sure to plug in to power when playing. If I play on battery the frame rates are bad, plugged in, smooth as on my Gaming Pc

We know, the laptop is plugged into the power supply at all times.

[Adryax]

Originally posted by 1337Cammy:

Originally posted by Adryax:

Good, a friend has a normal laptop with a 3050 Ti 4GB and a 5800H and is trying to run Age of Empires 4 but no matter the graphics settings you put it always goes to 10-15 fps when Youtube videos to other people with the same settings reach 60 fps and sometimes exceed them in high qualities.

We have done driver cleaning and have found that the game is pulling the dedicated graphics, in addition to many other Windows settings and in the Nvidia control panel.

What could it be due to?

Make sure that your game is running on your dedicated GPU (3050ti) instead of your onboard solution of your CPU.

According to MSI Afterburner all the graphics load is carried by the 3050 Ti.

[1337Cammy]

Originally posted by Adryax:

Originally posted by 1337Cammy:

Make sure that your game is running on your dedicated GPU (3050ti) instead of your onboard solution of your CPU.

According to MSI Afterburner all the graphics load is carried by the 3050 Ti.

I would disable the iGPU just in case, since Laptops tend to have dual graphics solutions enabled to spread the load and be power efficient, which bugs with games from time to time.

If that doesn't help:
The only other thing I can think of is maybe having the game on a native 4k notebook, which only top modern graphics cards should run.
Lowering this to 1080p might help in this case (1920x1080)

[Adryax]

Originally posted by 1337Cammy:

Originally posted by Adryax:

According to MSI Afterburner all the graphics load is carried by the 3050 Ti.

I would disable the iGPU just in case, since Laptops tend to have dual graphics solutions enabled to spread the load and be power efficient, which bugs with games from time to time.

If that doesn't help:
The only other thing I can think of is maybe having the game on a native 4k notebook, which only top modern graphics cards should run.
Lowering this to 1080p might help in this case (1920x1080)

We deactivate the iGPU from the Device Manager, is it correct to do so? Anyway it didn't work either, we can't explain why we don't have the same performance as someone else who has the same laptop and the same components on YT.


Also we don't have another laptop to test the game on, I have a desktop with a 7900XTX and a 7800x3d so it couldn't be the same.

[1337Cammy]

Originally posted by Adryax:

Originally posted by 1337Cammy:

I would disable the iGPU just in case, since Laptops tend to have dual graphics solutions enabled to spread the load and be power efficient, which bugs with games from time to time.

If that doesn't help:
The only other thing I can think of is maybe having the game on a native 4k notebook, which only top modern graphics cards should run.
Lowering this to 1080p might help in this case (1920x1080)

We deactivate the iGPU from the Device Manager, is it correct to do so? Anyway it didn't work either, we can't explain why we don't have the same performance as someone else who has the same laptop and the same components on YT.


Also we don't have another laptop to test the game on, I have a desktop with a 7900XTX and a 7800x3d so it couldn't be the same.

Yes, that is the correct way to do so.
Keep in mind that you should clean restart the Laptop after disabling the iGPU in the device manager.

Hmm...
You could check to deactivate NVidia experience, since this software tends to overwrite your ingame settings with its' own.

May you make a few screenshots of your settings and your system specs and post them here after uploading it somewhere for me, please?