Games stuck at 30 FPS

[WineRemedy]

I have a laptop that is only a week old, and today, every game I play, even outside of Steam, is at 30 FPS. I tried restarting it a couple times, v-sync is turned off, I've set the power mode to better performance and best performance, but they still run at 30 FPS. My drivers are updated. However, when I plug the charger in, it suddenly runs smooth with 60 FPS, but I wouldn't want my laptop to be plugged in all the time because I wouldn't want the battery to be degraded that badly, and there was a reason why I bought a laptop instead of a PC. My laptop has an GeForce RTX as the GPU and an AMD Ryzen 9 as the CPU.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Monk]

Gaming laptops use low power mode when not plugged in as otherwise they will drain the battery in about 10-30mins, they are designed to be plugged in when gaming or under any heavy use.

If you expected to play for hours at full power on battery.... Sorry, not going to happen if you want the system to still be portable, just plug in.

[WineRemedy]

Originally posted by Monk:

Gaming laptops use low power mode when not plugged in as otherwise they will drain the battery in about 10-30mins, they are designed to be plugged in when gaming or under any heavy use.

If you expected to play for hours at full power on battery.... Sorry, not going to happen if you want the system to still be portable, just plug in.

My laptop used to be pretty fine running games without charger being plugged in.

[_I_]

may have been a windows update reverting things to default

[76561198343548661]

Usually it s fixed by tweaking the power plan on Windows . For the CPU set max processor state 100% , when unplugged/on battery

[Illusion of Progress]

Originally posted by ImaginaryIce:

Originally posted by Monk:

Gaming laptops use low power mode when not plugged in as otherwise they will drain the battery in about 10-30mins, they are designed to be plugged in when gaming or under any heavy use.

If you expected to play for hours at full power on battery.... Sorry, not going to happen if you want the system to still be portable, just plug in.

My laptop used to be pretty fine running games without charger being plugged in.

Can you clarify this?

You state the laptop is just a week old, but this statement is stating it "used to" be different? A weeks time frame is a really short period of time, and not to have mentioned this in your initial post has me wondering if you're comparing this behavior of not happening before with another laptop entirely. What another laptop does or doesn't do doesn't necessarily have bearing on another one.

My laptop doesn't do this either, but that doesn't matter as far as yours goes. Mine is definitely not "gaming grade" (more the opposite, it has a "U" class CPU so it's already so low by default) and it's also really aged so it has a battery that can be removed and replaced. Aren't more and more laptops using batteries that you can't remove (or am I wrong here)? If so, that more ties the usability of the laptop in it's primary mode to the life of the battery, meaning once it can't hold as much of a charge, it's lost a lot of its usability, so they are going to have reason to implement methods to ensure it doesn't lose its maximum capacity rating in short order. Gaming and other high demands on modern hardware, which draw a lot of power and create a lot of heat, will definitely cause that.

Whether you can workaround this and disable the behavior is not something I can say, but the behavior is definitely a thing a lot of laptops these days do by default to my understanding, and working around it will probably result in a battery drain so quick you'll need to be near an outlet soon anyway.

[WineRemedy]

Originally posted by Illusion of Progress:

Originally posted by ImaginaryIce:

My laptop used to be pretty fine running games without charger being plugged in.

Can you clarify this?

You state the laptop is just a week old, but this statement is stating it "used to" be different? A weeks time frame is a really short period of time, and not to have mentioned this in your initial post has me wondering if you're comparing this behavior of not happening before with another laptop entirely. What another laptop does or doesn't do doesn't necessarily have bearing on another one.

My laptop doesn't do this either, but that doesn't matter as far as yours goes. Mine is definitely not "gaming grade" (more the opposite, it has a "U" class CPU so it's already so low by default) and it's also really aged so it has a battery that can be removed and replaced. Aren't more and more laptops using batteries that you can't remove (or am I wrong here)? If so, that more ties the usability of the laptop in it's primary mode to the life of the battery, meaning once it can't hold as much of a charge, it's lost a lot of its usability, so they are going to have reason to implement methods to ensure it doesn't lose its maximum capacity rating in short order. Gaming and other high demands on modern hardware, which draw a lot of power and create a lot of heat, will definitely cause that.

Whether you can workaround this and disable the behavior is not something I can say, but the behavior is definitely a thing a lot of laptops these days do by default to my understanding, and working around it will probably result in a battery drain so quick you'll need to be near an outlet soon anyway.

Yes, the laptop I use is only a week old, and somehow, today it wont run more than 30 FPS with the charger plugged in, even in the previous days I used it, the problem wasn't there and it was acting just normal. It didn't happen to any of my older laptops somehow.

I don't know about that there are laptops that have batteries that you can't replace/remove.

[Illusion of Progress]

If the behavior wasn't there for the first week you had it and it is there now, then something changed between then and now to cause it. I could only guess as to what that could be, but trying to figure that out would be your course of action for trying to get it back to how it was before.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You need to plug in the Laptop if you want full performance on any games that are even remotely demanding.

You want to set the Power Options to AMD Ryzen Balanced, nothing else.
If this profile does not exist, that's part of your issue because this means the Official AMD Ryzen Chipset Drivers are not even installed.

Wipe out everything AMD and NVIDIA on the Laptop and get the Drivers from AMD and NVIDIA.

Once that is all done, go to NVIDIA Control Panel and set the High Performance GPU as the Default.

[Der tüddelige Fußgänger]

Are you connected with energy or do you play with lure battery power?
Modern laptops can be extrmely fast, as long as you keep them connected to energy