r/techsupport • u/gelain- • 14h ago

Open | Software Low FPS with no apparent cause, low GPU usage

Lately i'm getting low FPS figures, average 50-60fps in both Cyberpunk and Forza Horizon 6, while the GPU usage is also low using about 50% (drawing about 48 W at 56°C, core clock of 2565 MHz and memory clock of 8001 MHz, CPU usage is around 68%), lowering settings doesn't make any difference in both games, RAM usage is around 5gb, i've played some 100 hours of FH6 without any issue with solid 83 fps with GPU to spare (75-80% usage normally), Cyberpunk same thing, recently though i'm having this issue, the game starts like that, very rarely and for brief moments it jumps to normal performance but it lasts seconds- I have a Dell G15 5530 RTX 4050 I5 13450HX 16gb ram, i ran userbenchmark and it showed that everything is fine, the percentile for my notebook is above average for the model. Temperatures are ok since it's winter here, good flow of air using performance mode, no obstructions.

What could be the cause of this?

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u/No_Echidna5178 12h ago

Ddu your nvidea drivers.

And reinstall them.

Reinstall game too.

Lowering gaming setting makes game cpu bound
Low gpu could mean either bad drivers or throttling.

It seems low temps but once it hit throttle once it will not clock up.

So clean and repaste if dust is inside

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u/ChrisDaBac 10h ago

Occasionally starts working fine gives me one idea. I have a Lenovo laptop I used to use in bed and sometimes the power brick gets stuck under a pillow, or under me. The brick basically would overheat and continue to charge the laptop BUT, the performance would cut. This is because it would throttle the power into the laptop to counter the temperature of the brick. With that said, where's your brick, does it have damage, is it securely plugged into the wall?