Hi everyone,
I recentedly purchased this laptop, and need some help with an FPS dropping issue.
While gaming (DOTA 2, Dark Souls 3), my frames suddenly drop from the usual 80fps to 10 to 12 fps, and return to normal after a couple of seconds. After looking at the task manager, I saw that my GPU usage was spiking to 100% when this occurred. Regardless of the changes I do in the nvidia control panel, as well as running my games on low settings, my fps still drops randomly. Both DOTA 2 and Dark Souls 3 ran without issues on my previous laptop, which had a worse graphics card, as well as less RAM.
Furthermore, using CPUID HWmoniter, I was able to track the temperature of my graphics card. As soon as it reaches 60 degrees, GPU usage spikes, resulting in the frame drop, and once frames return to normal, GPU usage as well as temperature drops. So to me, it seems that there is something preventing my graphics card from going past 60 degrees celsius, causing the fps drops.
Is this an intentional feature? If it is, is there anyway for me to disable it, given that graphics cards are usually fine at much higher temperatures?