Average FPS dropped all of a sudden - Laptop

bilalha123 · Feb 5, 2014

Hi everyone, sorry if I don't respond straight away to any replies that I may get, I'm going to sleep after I post this.

I've got a Clevo P170SM laptop with the following specs:
i7-4700MQ
GTX 780M
16GB RAM
120GB Kingston Hyperx 3K SSD
750GB Scorpio black HDD

I've been able to run every game that I've wanted to play so far on ultra settings. On skyrim for example, I used to get 60fps almost 100% of the time, but since last week I've noticed that the fps has been fluctuating between 30 and 50, even going below 20 at times.

I've checked other games too and the same thing is happening, rather than getting a constant high average fps, the games are starting to get jumpy.

I've not changed any settings so I don't know what the problem could be. I'm not sure if this is related but at the same time that my fps dropped, I noticed that loading times have changed from 3-4 seconds to 10-15 seconds too. Also, every time I turn on my laptop, the power plan automatically changes to power saving mode rather than balanced/high performance.

I've made sure that the power plan is in high performance mode when I'm playing games, and I've made sure that the gtx 780m is selected for the games in the nvidia control panel rather than the integrated graphics. I've also scanned my SSD to make sure that it's not failing (my HDD recently failed) but the SSD seems to be fine.

I know I've not given much information but if anyone can speculate as to why my fps has dropped so harshly all of a sudden I'd be really grateful.

I'm going to buy a new SSD soon so I'm contemplating doing a fresh install of windows anyway, but I'd like to avoid that if at all possible.

Thanks in advance for any help.

rgd1101 · Feb 5, 2014

check temperature?

Gman450 · Feb 6, 2014

Yes, do check the temperatures. Usually, the CPU would underclock itself, giving out less performance if it were overheating.

bilalha123 · Feb 6, 2014

OK, I'll download a programme to monitor temperatures and post the results here. Thanks.

bilalha123 · Feb 6, 2014

I ran a game for a few minutes until I experienced the huge drop in FPS and the max temperatures according to HWMonitor are:

CPU
core 0 = 40C
core 1 = 38C
core 2 = 36C
core 3 = 38C

Kingston SSD (which has the game installation on it) max was 37C

GPU max = 66C

I know I never ran the game for very long but I experienced the slowdown even after a few minutes, so I'm assuming that temperature is not a problem.

Any other suggestions? Thanks.

bilalha123 · Feb 7, 2014

I'd just like to add that my laptop is relatively new too, I've only had it for a few months.

Does anyone know what the problem is? Just ordered a new samsung 840 evo SSD and I'm going to attempt to clean install windows on that and try and run some games to see what performance I get. At least that way I can see whether the problem is hardware or software related.

Gman450 · Feb 7, 2014

Well, the temps look normal.
Do what you're about to do and post results.

bilalha123 · Feb 8, 2014

I have a HDD in my laptop too, a 750gb scorpio black, but it has failed so I can't do a fresh install of windows on it to see if my problem persists. I'll have to wait until tuesday when my new SSD arrives and then I'll see if the problem is solved.

Gman450 · Feb 8, 2014

Your HDD failed?
That could have been the problem. Probably the read/write rates weren't good enough, and so you might have experienced the FPS drops.

bilalha123 · Feb 9, 2014

Gman450 :

No, the HDD only has media on it.
The games I'm trying to play are on a 120GB Kingston Hyperx 3k SSD.

I noticed that the load times in the games is waaay longer than it used to be too so i thought the SSD is failing too but I did some tests on it and it seems fine.

I really don't know what the problem could be now, I'm going to clean install windows when I get my new SSD now

Gman450 · Feb 9, 2014

And the OS?

bilalha123 · Feb 9, 2014

Gman450 :

Windows 8.1

I should have mentioned that in OP, thanks.

CRITICALThinker · Feb 9, 2014

My friend had a similar problem, I rolled back the GPU driver and it fixed itself (540m) it seems the geforce beta driver released recently is not stable

bilalha123 · Feb 9, 2014

CRITICALThinker :

I'll try that, thanks.

bilalha123 · Feb 9, 2014

Wow, I went into device manager and uninstalled the Geforce driver. Nvidia Geforce Experience programme still says that I've got the latest Nvidia driver even though device manager says it's uninstalled.

That fixed the problem anyway, I guess the driver was installed twice and were somehow conflicting, even though it was the same driver.

Thanks for all the input guys.

CRITICALThinker · Feb 9, 2014

On Geforce experience it is probably always best to have the "include beta drivers" box under the check for updates button unchecked from my experience.

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