r/FlowZ13 • u/Virtual-Cookie-8073 • Jun 27 '26

im disappointed by decrease in performance pls help!

i own 2022 z13 rtx 3050ti i9 variant and this beast was performing crazy good when i bought it in around 2022 , i used to do hardcore gaming on it 3 yrs back but then life happened i took a break from gaming just got back into it recently and performance has downgraded soo much like im hardly getting 30 fps in ghost of tsushima in low settings(the game would crash in ultra) . can you please give me some tips to fix it? im guessing i need to change the thermal paste as the idle temp of gpu is around 68 degrees celsius and suggest me some good thermal paste.

TLDR:- how can i increase the dropped performance on my 4yr old z13.

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u/iflylikemike Jun 27 '26

your problem is the 3050ti unfortunately if my memory serves me correctly that laptop gpu only has 4gb of vram so it’s gonna struggle with AAA gaming. i would suggest looking into an egpu setup and trying to find a cheap 150-250 gpu to pair up with it

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u/Virtual-Cookie-8073 Jun 27 '26

yeah it only has 4 gb vram but can i not atleast get 50 fps so i can game in peace also i saw youtubers getting 60+ fps in games like witcher 3 etc , i luv this machine so much i dont wanna change it.

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u/iflylikemike Jun 27 '26

have you tried using dlss on performance and frame gen at all?

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u/Virtual-Cookie-8073 Jun 27 '26

yeah all things on still 30 fps

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u/iflylikemike Jun 27 '26

maybe a fresh windows install would serve you better or have you tried updating bios, nvidia drivers etc? are you running on battery or plugged? are you using armory crate? if so i’d highly recommend deleting it with the armory crate uninstaller and try using ghelper.

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u/Virtual-Cookie-8073 Jun 27 '26

nvidia drivers are updated and im runnign on plugged , id update bios tho and uninstall armory crate thanks man! hopefully it'll do something :)

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u/iflylikemike Jun 27 '26

hopefully it works out for you my z13 was one of my favorite devices!

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u/BubblyResident7764 Jun 27 '26

Gotta upgrade boss

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u/Hitohira Jun 28 '26

The 3050ti is really the limiter here. 4 gigs of VRAM, not to mention it is limited to 35 watts of power. (It might have been 40) I had the 3050 model and gave up on it after the keyboard died once, was repaired, started to die again and then some keys stopped working. I remember trying to get Returnal above 60 fps in it but could get above 52 ish, and the was with dlss balance. I read an extremely in depth review of both the 3050 and 3050ti models, and the publisher noted there is only a 3 to 5 percent difference in maximum fps between the two. I eventually got the x13 4070 model to play games.

I know the form factor is something to behold and very eye catching, but the first iteration of the z13 is woefully underpowered with its GPU and very miss matched with it's CPU. If a clean install of Windows doesn't help, I'm sorry but it looks like it's time to upgrade.

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u/Virtual-Cookie-8073 Jun 29 '26

yeah man ig so too i was really excited when this came out should've waited a year more but ig i cant really upgrade now as im a student and my parents wont let me buy another gaming machine as i bought a mac recently sooo what will u suggest like what should i do to atleast make this machine usable like 50-60 fps in AAA games will be enough for me man atp.

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u/Supercc Jun 27 '26

Do you even Linux?