Massive frame drops that only stop when I reboot the game

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PsychoticW0lf

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Hi.
So I (fairly) recently bought this new Asus laptop ( about 10 months ago ) and it was running all games just fine with constant good fps (above 60). Then, for the past month, after some time ( not more than 30 minutes )playing some games ( games that my pc can handle perfectly at 60 fps) the frames drop to below 10 and stay that way until I reboot the game. I place my hand below the pc and to the left side to check if its overheating, and I dont believe it is that hot. Any solutions ?
 
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To find out if it's an overheating issue monitor your CPU temps with Core Temp and your GPU temps with GPU-Z, let both running while you are playing a game, and then check the highest temps that were reached.
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Once I had some sort of adware that did the exact same thing. I would play certain games and after about 30 minutes FPS and performance in general would drop drastically. I downsized a game when it started lagging, opened task manager, checked to see what processes were hogging the most cpu/memory, and "steam.exe" was using ilke 90% of my CPU, but it wasn't the real steam.exe it was adware that was presumably masking itself as an already existing process because there was already a legit steam.exe which wasn't using nearly as much CPU/memory. I right clicked on the fake steam.exe, clicked "Open File Location" and it was in some obscure appdata folder like C:\users\(user)\appdata\local\codexi\(something.exe). After I ended the process and deleted the folder that contained the bogus .exe and rebooted it never happened again.

Long story short: When a game is lagging downsize it and see what is using the most memory & CPU in task manager
 
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Hi, thanks for replying.
After reading your reply I decided to play Verdun to test the possible solution. As expected, after about 10 minutes playing *BOOM* +/- 15 fps. Clicked ctrl+alt+delete, task manager, but the game itself was the program that was utilizing more CPU. However, I noticed something weird/scary : the disk usage was at 99% constantly, even after closing Verdun, and there was nothing using more than 2mb... Is this normal ? Or maybe its causing the gigantic frame drops ?

 
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ok i have been further looking into this, and it seems this may be caused by thermal throttling... The CPU is getting too hot causing the system to cool it off (explaining why I didn´t feel the laptop hot when I placed my hand underneath it after experiencing the drops) causing the insane frame drops. I might have to buy a dust remover to clean the fans which might be full of dust. This is just what I think is happening though,I might be wrong.
 
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Hi, thanks for replying
I used both programs to test the temperatures while playing War Thunder : on Core temp it detected 79ºC max on one core and on the other one 78ºC max. With GPU-Z it got to a point where it was 77ºC, and I believe that was the breaking point for the frames to drop. I think this really is an overheating problem.
Thanks for helping.
 
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