War thunder running incredibly slow

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War thunder has become almost unplayable for me recently. Before, I could run WT at 120fps at movie settings on my laptop, but now it is incredibly laggy and will run barely above 10-30fps on medium settings. Usually that wont happen because it has enourmous lag spikes constantly that freeze the game every half second or so. I am also noticing considerable drops in fps in other games (such as HOI4). I have a 1200 dollar laptop, and I expect it to at least run at 60fps on medium settings, and its not even getting close to 30. Can somebody help me?

Edit: I gave it a restart and it worked. It got stuck on the "windows is preparing to restart, please do not turn off your computer" part so i switched my computer off and turns out thats what fixed the problem :3

[HOBO ACTUAL]

Could be your internet connection? You could have a fancy setup but the moment you get packet loss or poor connection it all goes to hell.

[Vezon40k]

Mine likes to do that after some patches as well. Theres not much I can do except lower the graphics immensely. Eventually it all goes back to normal.

[Nica]

Make sure it's not overheating and keep an eye on your task manager for overconsuming programs

[Dakota]

If its multiple games then its not really a warthunder issue, or an internet one. You say its a laptop though, those are prone to heat issues, I'd recommend downloading a program that can check your CPU temp and sharing how hot it is when idle, what temp is at after say an hour with a game running, and maybe what its at when you start having issues.

[ℬℓα⊂₭ ℙℜ¡ℵ₠]

Originally posted by SovietPotato:

War thunder has become almost unplayable for me recently. Before, I could run WT at 120fps at movie settings on my laptop, but now it is incredibly laggy and will run barely above 10-30fps on medium settings. Usually that wont happen because it has enourmous lag spikes constantly that freeze the game every half second or so. I am also noticing considerable drops in fps in other games (such as HOI4). I have a 1200 dollar laptop, and I expect it to at least run at 60fps on medium settings, and its not even getting close to 30. Can somebody help me?

Similar thing happened to my brothers laptop, at the time was top of the range gaming laptop and he played BF2:Bad Company, and whatever the newest CIV game was around that time. After a few weeks it got lower and lower frame rates until it was unplayable. Took it to a PC shop, when he went to pick it up he asked if we had pets cos when he took the case apart all the air intakes were clogged up with dust and dog hair. He then advised to buy air in a can and give the intakes a blast once a week to force out dust etc. Also suggested playing on a clean table. My brother used to use his laptop on the floor or bed so that's how it got so much crap in it.

[Scheneighnay]

What are your actual specs? When I played on a laptop it was nice when I first got it but became outdated quickly. Not to mention what everyone else said about heat being an issue in them.

That or you're accidentally running on integrated graphics.

[RustyNail]

Originally posted by Dakota:

If its multiple games then its not really a warthunder issue, or an internet one. You say its a laptop though, those are prone to heat issues, I'd recommend downloading a program that can check your CPU temp and sharing how hot it is when idle, what temp is at after say an hour with a game running, and maybe what its at when you start having issues.

It doesn't take much dust/lint to clog up a laptop's air vents to where it won't cool properly and where throttling can start to occur.

[ℬℓα⊂₭ ℙℜ¡ℵ₠]

He fixed it, looks like it may have been some sort of windows update or something

[Psycho Yuri]

Something else I had noticed with a laptop is that when your battery is going into safe battery modus games will be slower aswell. (So keep it connected to the battery loader)

[B.D.Godde]

Originally posted by ℬℓα⊂₭ ℙℜ¡ℵ₠:

He fixed it, looks like it may have been some sort of windows update or something

war thunder will not run unless you have the latest version of windows