LOW CS:GO FPS, 2.9 GHz i7-7820HK CPU, and a GTX 1080, PLEASE HELP

[Elite Assault]

Recently I upgraded to a laptop featuring a 2.9 GHz i7-7820HK CPU, and a GTX 1080. I downloaded CS:GO to give it a go, and over the course of 1-2 days the average fps I got playing fell considerably. It began with a stable ~200 fps playing a round with bots the first day I downloaded the game, and thew breaking point was when today I consistently played a little below 90 and 80 fps in a deathmatch round. Having a laptop with a 2.9 GHz i7-7820HK CPU, a GTX 1080, and 120 hz screen only to see a game as easy to run as CS:GO be choppy and stuttery is extremely frustrating. I looked for any solution, made sure everything was set to be performance focused in basic Windows battery settings and NVIDIA 3D advanced 3d settings, made sure my CPU and GPU were not damaged (both had accurate benchmarks to their factory benchmarks), I used commnands such as "fps_max 0", and "fps_max 999", but to no avail. The game seems to be progressively becoming slowing and more choppy. It is even more painful to experience knowing people with GTX 1060s are getting upwards of 500 fps with the same exact settings as I, I just have no clue what is happening to my game. I have reinstalled and verified the game files and it changed nothing Please help!

[Tedmouse]

My buddy has a even more expensive laptop then mine, but played offline with the highest settings, but couldn't play with those settings online.
Turns out he had horrible internet.

[Zanaks]

The GPU or CPU is bottlenecking one another or some apps are eating up your ram therefor affecting your performance too.

[Elite Assault]

Originally posted by zanaks //testing:

The GPU or CPU is bottlenecking one another or some apps are eating up your ram therefor affecting your performance too.

Yes, I will look into ram. Mine is currently dual channel and is usually hovering at 6.5 gb used of the 8 available in the dedicated card when playing, which seems kind of high. My GPU stays around 30 percent usage, with the CPU at 25 percent usage. Could bottlenecking occur at these percentages?

[Zanaks]

Originally posted by a129:

Originally posted by zanaks //testing:

The GPU or CPU is bottlenecking one another or some apps are eating up your ram therefor affecting your performance too.

Yes, I will look into ram. Mine is currently dual channel and is usually hovering at 6.5 gb used of the 8 available in the dedicated card when playing, which seems kind of high. My GPU stays around 30 percent usage, with the CPU at 25 percent usage. Could bottlenecking occur at these percentages?

With those percentages it shouldn't occur, it seems odd how a laptop with this type of hardware gets somewhat bade performance. You can still try looking into apps that could still eat up your ram. Other than that I cannot think of anything else you could try that comes into my mind.
quick edit: I think it could also be affected by the power settings in windows, if its on low (or whatever it's called) then that could be affecting performance since it is attempting to save as much power at cost of performance.

[Elite Assault]

Originally posted by zanaks //testing:

Originally posted by a129:

Yes, I will look into ram. Mine is currently dual channel and is usually hovering at 6.5 gb used of the 8 available in the dedicated card when playing, which seems kind of high. My GPU stays around 30 percent usage, with the CPU at 25 percent usage. Could bottlenecking occur at these percentages?

With those percentages it shouldn't occur, it seems odd how a laptop with this type of hardware gets somewhat bade performance. You can still try looking into apps that could still eat up your ram. Other than that I cannot think of anything else you could try that comes into my mind.

Got it, thank you. I did find some background apps were using up 3 gigs of RAM somehow, this comiter is brand new I swear... I delved into some obscure forums and found some CS:GO startup commands which boosted my fps considerably just now, here they are:

-novid -tickrate 128 -high +fps_max 0 +cl_showfps 1 +cl_interp 0 +cl_interp_ratio 1 +rate 128000 +cl_updaterate 128 +cl_cmdrate 128 +mat_queue_mode 2 +cl_forcepreload 1 -nod3d9ex -nojoy

Im not sure what did it, but Im putting this here just in case anyone may want a fix to this fps thing. Thanks for the help!

[Tedmouse]

Alot of laptops come with bloatware programs.

[Zanaks]

Originally posted by a129:

Originally posted by zanaks //testing:

With those percentages it shouldn't occur, it seems odd how a laptop with this type of hardware gets somewhat bade performance. You can still try looking into apps that could still eat up your ram. Other than that I cannot think of anything else you could try that comes into my mind.

Got it, thank you. I did find some background apps were using up 3 gigs of RAM somehow, this comiter is brand new I swear... I delved into some obscure forums and found some CS:GO startup commands which boosted my fps considerably just now, here they are:

-novid -tickrate 128 -high +fps_max 0 +cl_showfps 1 +cl_interp 0 +cl_interp_ratio 1 +rate 128000 +cl_updaterate 128 +cl_cmdrate 128 +mat_queue_mode 2 +cl_forcepreload 1 -nod3d9ex -nojoy

Im not sure what did it, but Im putting this here just in case anyone may want a fix to this fps thing. Thanks for the help!

Like Tedmouse said here your laptop probably came with random apps pre installed and you should definetly uninstall them, you can try running benchmarks and checking temps on your gpu and cpu at idle as well as under load (aka doing the benchmark on csgo) It could quite possibly be due to the temperatures being quite high and therefor also lowering performance.

quick edit: I used to get very good performance on my old old pc (around 160fps + on csgo) and overtime that 160+ turned to 70+ I noticed it was because of my drive size increasing close to the max 1TB (was at around 894GB/1TB) You should check stuff on drive too just in case.

[Elite Assault]

Originally posted by zanaks //testing:

Originally posted by a129:

Got it, thank you. I did find some background apps were using up 3 gigs of RAM somehow, this comiter is brand new I swear... I delved into some obscure forums and found some CS:GO startup commands which boosted my fps considerably just now, here they are:

-novid -tickrate 128 -high +fps_max 0 +cl_showfps 1 +cl_interp 0 +cl_interp_ratio 1 +rate 128000 +cl_updaterate 128 +cl_cmdrate 128 +mat_queue_mode 2 +cl_forcepreload 1 -nod3d9ex -nojoy

Im not sure what did it, but Im putting this here just in case anyone may want a fix to this fps thing. Thanks for the help!

Like Tedmouse said here your laptop probably came with random apps pre installed and you should definetly uninstall them, you can try running benchmarks and checking temps on your gpu and cpu at idle as well as under load (aka doing the benchmark on csgo) It could quite possibly be due to the temperatures being quite high and therefor also lowering performance.

Very good point, I need to run the CS:GO benchmark, and I will have the MSI afterburner on to see the temperatures and usage of my CPU and GPU then. When I bought the laptop I ran the command to "remove the appx package", or something along those lines, it deleted all of the preinstalled apps on the computer. I hope that was sufficient in removing the bloatware. I played a competetive match recetnyl to test the FPS, and towards the end I almost always had ~200 fps which is a massive relief, however I am still at a loss for why it is not in the high hundreds like other people can manage. I will continue my search for fixes, but so far it seems your guys' suggestions are working!

[Zanaks]

Originally posted by a129:

Originally posted by zanaks //testing:

Like Tedmouse said here your laptop probably came with random apps pre installed and you should definetly uninstall them, you can try running benchmarks and checking temps on your gpu and cpu at idle as well as under load (aka doing the benchmark on csgo) It could quite possibly be due to the temperatures being quite high and therefor also lowering performance.

Very good point, I need to run the CS:GO benchmark, and I will have the MSI afterburner on to see the temperatures and usage of my CPU and GPU then. When I bought the laptop I ran the command to "remove the appx package", or something along those lines, it deleted all of the preinstalled apps on the computer. I hope that was sufficient in removing the bloatware. I played a competetive match recetnyl to test the FPS, and towards the end I almost always had ~200 fps which is a massive relief, however I am still at a loss for why it is not in the high hundreds like other people can manage. I will continue my search for fixes, but so far it seems your guys' suggestions are working!

Did you tamper with the cpu clock speed or the gpu clock speed/shaders anything in that sort? if so you could have configured it wrong or have underclocked the 2 components.

[Elite Assault]

Originally posted by zanaks //testing:

Originally posted by a129:

Very good point, I need to run the CS:GO benchmark, and I will have the MSI afterburner on to see the temperatures and usage of my CPU and GPU then. When I bought the laptop I ran the command to "remove the appx package", or something along those lines, it deleted all of the preinstalled apps on the computer. I hope that was sufficient in removing the bloatware. I played a competetive match recetnyl to test the FPS, and towards the end I almost always had ~200 fps which is a massive relief, however I am still at a loss for why it is not in the high hundreds like other people can manage. I will continue my search for fixes, but so far it seems your guys' suggestions are working!

Did you tamper with the cpu clock speed or the gpu clock speed/shaders anything in that sort? if so you could have configured it wrong or have underclocked the 2 components.

I have not changed the clock speeds of the CPU nor the GPU, while I know the i7-7280HK gets a significant portion of its value from its ability to be overclocked and achieve higher performance, I am not too sure how to overclock so I didn't want to risk it. I have a program which came preinstalled with my laptop called OMEN Command Center, where it allows you to easily overclock the CPU without having to enter the BIOS, but I still have no clue how to do it safely, so I dont want to set my laptop on fire quite yet. The only major adjustmnets I did was to make all of my settings more focused towards performance in the NVIDIA advanced 3D control section. Also, about the shaders, I have it set to be ON where it saves CPU stress by saving shaders, however I am not too sure about what it really does in the end, all I know is that my CPU is saved stress, and I believe it might be the bottleneck, of course I have no real good basis of understanding this stuff too deep. I am not too sure how to check wether or not my CPU or GPU is underclocked, the only real piece of information I have is that my CPU has a slightly lower benchmark score for the Intel XTU benchmark test as well as the CPU-Z benchmark test when compared to other factory new models of the same CPU at the same clock speed. It is only by like ~5 percent, so it is not too major, but still potenitally a cause for concern, considering a 2.9 GHz card isnt all too beefy (as far as I understand/have experienced so far). I could try to figure out how to get the clock speed of my CPU and GPU if that would be of any help/useful information.

[Mr. Nice Guy]

Don’t overclock a laptop, probably your thermal throttling already

[Elite Assault]

Originally posted by Mr. Nice Guy:

Don’t overclock a laptop, probably your thermal throttling already

Yeah, I dont think I will. But at high load I dont even get to 70 celsius, I assume thermal throttling occurs at higher temps? I have no idea why I cant even get a stable 200 fps, where like GTX 660s can get 300 fps stable. My mind is boggled.

[LaGgIs]

Try out this program http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/CPU-core-parking-manager-v3

[Elite Assault]

Originally posted by LaGgls:

Try out this program http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/CPU-core-parking-manager-v3

Thank you very much! I will try it out and see if it changes performance, maybe it will identify the bottleneck in my situation...