Constant lag spikes with steam games.

[UpwardFriend]

I got a new laptop a month ago with an 16 gigs of ram, an i7 a 4050 laptop gpu. It was going good at first until I started to notice something, whenever I played this smash like game with my friends (Bobl battle, not very intensive game at all) it would lag quite a bit and spike up and down contstantly during gameplay, and when I would try and join other people games through shift tab I discovered shift tab was lagging to an unusable degree. But this wasn't the worst ever and originally I just ignored it and played other games. But sadly again while playing Halo Reach (A similarly easy to run game with the specs this laptop has) would have pretty bad spikes and sometimes completely pause gameplay, another game Europa Unneversalis 4, a game from 2013 is basically unplayable with anything in the backround and very choppy with nothing on in the backround. A game which used to work well Crusader Kings 3 I discovered became much like EU4 and became unplayable with anything on in the backround and really choppy with nothing on which suprised me as it had been a decently well working (despite a few lag spikes) game beforehand.
I really don't know what to do at this point, all of my games are set to high performance so this isnt the problem and unless I did something wrong the new drivers I installed didn't help either.
pls help

[crunchyfrog]

First thing to do is check ALL your settings. Yes, you've got is high performance.

BUt you should check that you have it set to use maximum power too. If you use battery only, then it will still likely cause issues because that still won't be full power.

Also, check your laptop is using the correct graphics card. Its' not unknown for games to select the wrong one. My laptop has the usual onboard Intel chipset plus a GTX1050. If a game wrongly chooses the INtel one, I'm going to have a bad time.

You can easily fix this by going into the control panel of your graphics card and forcing the games to use it.

Outside this, open your Task Manager while you're running these games to see if any of your system resources are being hit hard and that may give you clue on where to go next.

[UpwardFriend]

The games are using the nvidia one, the problem is the constant spiking when its being used. Looking in task manager I don't believe it to be a memory thing as Crusader Kings 3 worked better while I had spotify open a week ago than how it does now with nothing else open. I don't believe this is because of using the wrong gpu but if you think it is then I can follow more detailed instructions about how to in the control panel.

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

First thing to do is check ALL your settings. Yes, you've got is high performance.

BUt you should check that you have it set to use maximum power too. If you use battery only, then it will still likely cause issues because that still won't be full power.

Also, check your laptop is using the correct graphics card. Its' not unknown for games to select the wrong one. My laptop has the usual onboard Intel chipset plus a GTX1050. If a game wrongly chooses the INtel one, I'm going to have a bad time.

You can easily fix this by going into the control panel of your graphics card and forcing the games to use it.

Outside this, open your Task Manager while you're running these games to see if any of your system resources are being hit hard and that may give you clue on where to go next.

[Iceira]

Have you tried the renstall GPU card driver again in fresh install in custom installation then checkbox is there.

And we can't help you with the way you tell Laptop spec. ( go ahead try google the informantion you provide here, and then yuo will learn it's inadequate )

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by UpwardFriend:

The games are using the nvidia one, the problem is the constant spiking when its being used. Looking in task manager I don't believe it to be a memory thing as Crusader Kings 3 worked better while I had spotify open a week ago than how it does now with nothing else open. I don't believe this is because of using the wrong gpu but if you think it is then I can follow more detailed instructions about how to in the control panel.

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

First thing to do is check ALL your settings. Yes, you've got is high performance.

BUt you should check that you have it set to use maximum power too. If you use battery only, then it will still likely cause issues because that still won't be full power.

Also, check your laptop is using the correct graphics card. Its' not unknown for games to select the wrong one. My laptop has the usual onboard Intel chipset plus a GTX1050. If a game wrongly chooses the INtel one, I'm going to have a bad time.

You can easily fix this by going into the control panel of your graphics card and forcing the games to use it.

Outside this, open your Task Manager while you're running these games to see if any of your system resources are being hit hard and that may give you clue on where to go next.

Then what about those system resources I asked about and the other things I asked?