Games always lagging! Please help me fix this!

[Zip]

So I have a laptop with 228 GB of free storage, An NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 laptop GPU, And guess what? All of my steam games lag! I've went to a different location and it still lags! Sometimes the lag is not happening but most of the time just lag! I've restarted my laptop and updated my drivers! Any fixes you guys know about?

[The Governor]

Since you have a solid GPU and plenty of storage, we need to find the bottleneck.
Run Task Manager while your game is lagging and monitor these four: CPU, GPU, Memory, and Disk Usage. Whichever one is hitting 100% is likely your issue.
Also, don't rule out thermal throttling. Laptops can overheat, forcing the CPU/GPU to slow down. Use a tool like HWMonitor to check your temperatures while gaming. If they're consistently above 85-90°C, that's your problem right there.
I'm not an expert but this is what i would start with. Hope this helps you track it down!

[Zip]

Originally posted by The Governor:

Since you have a solid GPU and plenty of storage, we need to find the bottleneck.
Run Task Manager while your game is lagging and monitor these four: CPU, GPU, Memory, and Disk Usage. Whichever one is hitting 100% is likely your issue.
Also, don't rule out thermal throttling. Laptops can overheat, forcing the CPU/GPU to slow down. Use a tool like HWMonitor to check your temperatures while gaming. If they're consistently above 85-90°C, that's your problem right there.
I'm not an expert but this is what i would start with. Hope this helps you track it down!

So... 6% - 10% CPU 37 Memory 0% Disk 0% Network

[The Governor]

What about gpu usage? if its low, like 10-20% while the game is lagging then that helps narrow it down. Also monitor temperature too.
Incase the gpu usage is low heres what could be happening;
Software Limiters (like V-Sync or a low FPS cap), or background processes interrupting the CPU, or driver issues causing poor communication between the CPU and GPU (in which case i'd recommend a full clean install of the gpu drivers)