Heavy FPS drop out of nowhere on Alienware - why?

[michael wave (⚈益⚈)]

Hello,

So I've been playing CS:GO on a a maxxed out Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition​ R10 for the last two years, and obviously no issues and everything fine with a system like that. As of last week though, I can' really play anymore: huge FPS drops and staggering every 10 seconds, makes the game completely unplayable. The temperature and other metrics seem fine, all drivers are fully up to date. Here's what I tried to do:

- Reinstall the game completely and check local files;
- Did the sfc /scannow and chskdsk commands and used the memory diagnostic tool (no issues); 
- Changed specs to low with a lower resoluion, nothing.
- Uninstalled and reinstalled GeForce drivers. 
- Tried different options on GeFore experience and disabled/enabled GeSync. 
- Made CS:Go a priority in the Task Manager.

Weirdly it seems like the issue only happens in CS:Go, which I guess is because it requires a high FPS? I tried it with the game Stray and that one worked fine. It's weird that this is happening out of the blue - no major update either with the game or OS, so not sure what could have caused it. Looks like a hardware or driver thing, but can't seem to identify it no matter what I do. Others seem to have had the same problem in the past. 

Any idea what this could be? How can I troubleshoot/fix this?

Thanks all!

[krul won]

maybe bad internet

[michael wave (⚈益⚈)]

No internet is fine

[[AJSA]MeloDeath]

Do cs run on the main GPU? Mabye its tying to run on the wrong card?

[Indy1944]

Thermal Throttling, who ever said Alienware was good, known to be hot.

[g]

your first problem is buying an alienware.

[michael wave (⚈益⚈)]

Regret the Alienware purchase yes... It's def running on the main GPU afaik. Termperature seem ok but thermal throttling does seem like an issue. Might apply some thermal gel and see if that changes anything, but skeptical since temperature levels seem fine I think: https://prnt.sc/cJRGA_JU_XnU

[Osimhen Paşa]

1313

[Örn]

Originally posted by 𝕀𝕣𝕒𝕟𝔸𝕚𝕣:

Regret the Alienware purchase yes... It's def running on the main GPU afaik. Termperature seem ok but thermal throttling does seem like an issue. Might apply some thermal gel and see if that changes anything, but skeptical since temperature levels seem fine I think: https://prnt.sc/cJRGA_JU_XnU

I have a game laptop too "Legion 5 17IMH05H" and temperatures rised high. I did have same problems, temperatures was around 90 grades on CPUs side. I changed max energy to CPU 95% (energy options of windows). Games run good, the temperature did go -20 C down. CPU is working now max in 2,5 GHz on place of 2,6GHz.

It solved my problems about high temperatures, and performance.

Regards.

[michael wave (⚈益⚈)]

Originally posted by Örn:

Originally posted by 𝕀𝕣𝕒𝕟𝔸𝕚𝕣:

Regret the Alienware purchase yes... It's def running on the main GPU afaik. Termperature seem ok but thermal throttling does seem like an issue. Might apply some thermal gel and see if that changes anything, but skeptical since temperature levels seem fine I think: https://prnt.sc/cJRGA_JU_XnU

I have a game laptop too "Legion 5 17IMH05H" and temperatures rised high. I did have same problems, temperatures was around 90 grades on CPUs side. I changed max energy to CPU 95% (energy options of windows). Games run good, the temperature did go -20 C down. CPU is working now max in 2,5 GHz on place of 2,6GHz.

It solved my problems about high temperatures, and performance.

Regards.

Thanks for this - I can't seem to find where to specify this setting, any clarification much appreciated!

[Örn]

Originally posted by 𝕀𝕣𝕒𝕟𝔸𝕚𝕣:

Originally posted by Örn:

I have a game laptop too "Legion 5 17IMH05H" and temperatures rised high. I did have same problems, temperatures was around 90 grades on CPUs side. I changed max energy to CPU 95% (energy options of windows). Games run good, the temperature did go -20 C down. CPU is working now max in 2,5 GHz on place of 2,6GHz.

It solved my problems about high temperatures, and performance.

Regards.

Thanks for this - I can't seem to find where to specify this setting, any clarification much appreciated!

Look the picture
https://imgur.com/a/XzJyvpY
Sorry for sweedish

[Food]

Alienware is hot steaming trash.

Hot tip: Download Process Lasso and disable the first two cores for CSGO. The first two threads are used by the OS and desktop applications.

[Wehzy]

Alienware is known for bad performance.

[Wehzy]

Originally posted by Spartacus:

Alienware is hot steaming trash.

Hot tip: Download Process Lasso and disable the first two cores for CSGO. The first two threads are used by the OS and desktop applications.

his helps only on very old CPU

[michael wave (⚈益⚈)]

Sadly the

Originally posted by Örn:

Originally posted by 𝕀𝕣𝕒𝕟𝔸𝕚𝕣:

Thanks for this - I can't seem to find where to specify this setting, any clarification much appreciated!

Look the picture
https://imgur.com/a/XzJyvpY
Sorry for sweedish

Thank you, tried this - helped make the desktop fan a lot less loud :) but no changes for the game, still very laggy...

[skOsH♥]

Originally posted by gia:

your first problem is buying an alienware.

They make a cool monitor but that's about it