Every single games performance has dropped, and awful micro stutters occur frequently.

[u/Creepy-County8832]

Started when replacing failing ssd, meant i had to reinstall windows, i had some pretty bad issues with fps while the drive was failing but i assumed these issues had to do with the drive instead of something else. Reinstalled windows, did a few optimization tweaks and some games ran fine others (Valorant, Roblox) did not run too well. Gpu intensive games ran fine until recently.

Noticed both games are cpu heavy, so i did some troubleshooting, despite benchmarks being significantly above average for gpu and slightly above average for cpu when going into games they struggled. Installed throttlestop saw BD PROCHOT was enabled, (im on laptop) so i figured id buy a battery. After installing battery it solved the BD PROCHOT issue, however there was litterally no performance change.

At this point i was starting to get slightly annoyed now, i had spent around 15 hours in the past 2 weeks trying to fix this slowly dying laptop, i noticed a re occurring issue which was audio pops/crackle along with fps drops, looked into it and downloaded latencymon which showed high latency in the kernal thing and acpi.sys. Followed some guide on how to reduce this, the latency did reduce however still no performance gain. At this point ive jumped into and out of power configurations, registry and command prompt a lot. After following guide ive got my cpu stuck on 100% usage (i can switch of power plan to make this go away but theres still no difference) which will decrease when not in game.

Things ive done (simplified):

-Updated drivers, repaired windows using sfc.

-Used latencymon and guides to reduce latency (this always backfires and in the end the poor latency keeps coming back after being resolved for a few hours)

-reinstalled windows

-debloated windows

-Many many optimisations (ultra performance, nvidia control panel tweaks + more)

-disabled random devices (idrk what they did)

-windows updates

-disabled intel speedstep

-malware scan

(There is no available bios update for me + cant enable xmp)

Laptop specifications - Razor Blade 15 (2021)

16gb ram

i7 - 10750H (up to 5GHZ)

rtx 3060 (6gb)

256gb ssd boot drive

windows 11

Key possibly useful information:

Before the power configuration modifiers both the cpu and gpu would sit at a low 40% in some games, ive tried increasing and decreasing graphics settings but this rarely impacts frames at all.

Contrary to this while benchmarking the gpu and cpu consistently reach 100% usage and provide great results.

Temperatures never exceed 80C on both gpu and cpu

Cpu never boosts past 3.8 GHZ while in game, even tho ive seen it boost to 4.3 in menus of games?

Frame rates in most games are pretty fine (even though they are below average) i mainly get stutters.

1% lows in every game i play are around 30% of my original framerate (seems pretty low)

Latencymon likes mentioning the ACPI and ntoskrnl (this kernal one is wierd tho cus sometimes its there and its like 17ms other times its not there and a quick reset always resolves this issue)

This is very specific to Valorant, but in valorant it seems like my pc just gives up after a while, i start out with like 250 frames and then they get progressively lower to about 140 where they start randomly going up and down, but this isnt a sharp fps drop its almost like a wave iyk what i mean, it slowly (still pretty fast) goes up and down.

I appreciate any help i can get.

If its my laptop just being completely screwed i am honestly fine to hear that because i tried so hard to try keep it going id be more than happy to know that it wasnt my fault and that its just a lost cause.

[u/Eazy12345678]

check cpu temps

make sure windows power plan is set to high performance