When I'm playing on my laptop, I get a normal of 60-70 FPS, until it starts to get hot. When it warms up, the FPS drops below 60, but anytime my FPS is lower than 60 (even by 1 frame), it automatically goes to 30 FPS, making it 60+ FPS or 30, no in-between. I wanted to know what could be causing this because VSync isn't enabled, so no frame rate locks are set.
If anyone has an idea of what could be causing it, I would be grateful.
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If it's dropping to 30 fps, then there is some v-synch happening. Perhaps it is within your graphics card. Which graphics card are you using? It's probably integrated.
The fact that it's dropping anyway: If you have a Windows 7 lappy, you should try changing your power options:
Click the battery symbol in the bottom, righthand corner.
"More power options"
If you're on "power saver", switch to one that says "balanced", "High performance", or anything that sounds more powerful
If this is not the issue, i.e. you are already on "high performance", click "change plan settings"
"Change advanced power settings"
You might have a "graphics setting", mine says "Intel(R) Graphics Settings" Make sure they are set to "Maximum"
Under "Processor power management" there are several options. Make sure "Maximum processor state" is on "100%' and "System cooling policy" is on "active"
That last step most matches your problem description. If it's not on "active", that means your PC is throttling your performance to save on fan noise and power consumption.
If it's dropping to 30 fps, then there is some v-synch happening. Perhaps it is within your graphics card. Which graphics card are you using? It's probably integrated.
The fact that it's dropping anyway: If you have a Windows 7 lappy, you should try changing your power options:
Click the battery symbol in the bottom, righthand corner.
"More power options"
If you're on "power saver", switch to one that says "balanced", "High performance", or anything that sounds more powerful
If this is not the issue, i.e. you are already on "high performance", click "change plan settings"
"Change advanced power settings"
You might have a "graphics setting", mine says "Intel® Graphics Settings" Make sure they are set to "Maximum"
Under "Processor power management" there are several options. Make sure "Maximum processor state" is on "100%' and "System cooling policy" is on "active"
That last step most matches your problem description. If it's not on "active", that means your PC is throttling your performance to save on fan noise and power consumption.
It is a integrated graphics card, so there's the main issue, but this just started to happen recently. The power plan is set to "High Performance" all the time because all of the power plans have very similar battery life.
The advanced settings and graphics card settings seemed to help it stay at 60+ for longer, so thanks for that.
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The fact that it's dropping anyway: If you have a Windows 7 lappy, you should try changing your power options:
Click the battery symbol in the bottom, righthand corner.
"More power options"
If you're on "power saver", switch to one that says "balanced", "High performance", or anything that sounds more powerful
If this is not the issue, i.e. you are already on "high performance", click "change plan settings"
"Change advanced power settings"
You might have a "graphics setting", mine says "Intel(R) Graphics Settings" Make sure they are set to "Maximum"
Under "Processor power management" there are several options. Make sure "Maximum processor state" is on "100%' and "System cooling policy" is on "active"
That last step most matches your problem description. If it's not on "active", that means your PC is throttling your performance to save on fan noise and power consumption.
This didn't help even slightly. Pretty common known fact.
It is a integrated graphics card, so there's the main issue, but this just started to happen recently. The power plan is set to "High Performance" all the time because all of the power plans have very similar battery life.
The advanced settings and graphics card settings seemed to help it stay at 60+ for longer, so thanks for that.
--Neil deGrasse Tyson