I have a Nitro with the GTX 1650, I bought this laptop year and couple months ago, I used to play games such as Metal Gear 5 at a rock solid 60fps, and would lock Valorant at 70fps since the screen caps at 60. A month and a half ago these games started dropping frames like crazy. Metal Gear 5 constantly runs at high 40s and Valorant is dropping to mid 50s and high 30s when the action gets too heavy. Neither of these games are graphically demanding either so I shouldn't be experiencing this. I haven't touched any of the computer settings, I only play when the laptop is plugged in, set to high performance, I have the nvidia control panel set to the Nvidia graphics card globally, all the game graphics are optimized via Geforce Experience. Some games still run at 60fps, such as Resident Evil 6 but that's a 9 year old game and even then it does drop to 50 sometimes. I checked the fans and everything is fine, they spin well and are clean. I've been playing on the same desk I've always been playing and I never had a problem with blocking of the airvent so its cant be that either. I updated all my drivers from the Acer website and updated my BIOS aswell and nothing has changed. I defraged my hard drive as there's where I install all my games because the SSD is too small.
There's one thing however that I can't really "fix" but, when I bought the laptop, the fans would speed up as soon as I opened a game. Everytime I played a game the fans would go up to 5k-6k RPM in order to ensure the laptop doesnt overheat. They don't do that automatically anymore, I have to manually set the fans to max before gaming in order to ensure better performance. Is there a way to fix that? I replaced one of the fans a couple days ago as it was broken. But that problem hasn't fixed itself yet. Is there a specific driver I must update or re-install? I've uninstalled and re-installed nitrosense multiple times but to no avail.
Also, I should mention that the battery doesn't last as much as it used to. But that shouldn't matter right? I always have it plugged in before playing but maybe that's affecting somehow?
Please help!!
There's one thing however that I can't really "fix" but, when I bought the laptop, the fans would speed up as soon as I opened a game. Everytime I played a game the fans would go up to 5k-6k RPM in order to ensure the laptop doesnt overheat. They don't do that automatically anymore, I have to manually set the fans to max before gaming in order to ensure better performance. Is there a way to fix that? I replaced one of the fans a couple days ago as it was broken. But that problem hasn't fixed itself yet. Is there a specific driver I must update or re-install? I've uninstalled and re-installed nitrosense multiple times but to no avail.
Also, I should mention that the battery doesn't last as much as it used to. But that shouldn't matter right? I always have it plugged in before playing but maybe that's affecting somehow?
Please help!!
