Random framerate dips while gaming--any ideas for how to fix? (Win10)

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Its not any of those, its a Core i5 7260U.

And yeah shockingly even Doom Eternal used to play fine on it with no major hiccups until the same time every other game did. And that was a game I expected to have performance issues. When these random drops happen while playing a freaking NES game tho, that worries me.

Try cleaning out the graphics drivers and reinstalling them. Turn on or off hardware gpu scheduling in windows and see if that helps.

 

[skykiii]

can ya run furmark and post the results there

I don't know if there's a way to make it auto-generate a score sheet (I've never used a benchmark program before) but here's what I observed:

I let it run for 17 minutes (probably dangerous as the GPU it tested ran close to 80 degrees celsius) and it consistently produced a framerate of around 100 at 1080p running OpenGL. It did worse when I used Vulkan though, including some of those random FPS dips, so now I suspect Vulkan is the problem.

EDIT: Youtube happened to recommend me a video about a program called NVCleanInstall. So I tried that, and then ran the benchmark again and Vulkan was doing a lot better. I'm not sure if the reinstall did it or if its just that I gave the GPU more time to cool down.

I'm gonna do the most important test, the "do I have framerate issues when gaming?" one.

 

[Masturbator]

certainly should re-grease and change thermal pads on whole thing, 80c is straight up past any throttling temperatures

vulcan is cpu intensive so i still assume its kinda the thing that throttles albeit its just guessing game without full comp specs itt

 

[skykiii]

certainly should re-grease and change thermal pads on whole thing, 80c is straight up past any throttling temperatures

vulcan is cpu intensive so i still assume its kinda the thing that throttles albeit its just guessing game without full comp specs itt

I thought I posted specs in the OP?

it was an external video card that went near 80c, not anything inside the comp... would that make a difference?

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

certainly should re-grease and change thermal pads on whole thing, 80c is straight up past any throttling temperatures

vulcan is cpu intensive so i still assume its kinda the thing that throttles albeit its just guessing game without full comp specs itt

Furmark is made to push the temperatures/power consumption like that, it's what sets it apart from other benchmarks. If a card runs hot and Furmark is involved that's considered normal.

 

[skykiii]

Furmark is made to push the temperatures/power consumption like that, it's what sets it apart from other benchmarks. If a card runs hot and Furmark is involved that's considered normal.

Thanks for letting me know, I was seriously about to open my video card up and apply thermal paste, which I have no idea how to do safely.

 

[SmallKiwi]

From my personal experience, it's due to something happening in the background. Usually Windows or some app doing an update and sucking away the CPU power or hard-drive's speed.