BF5 Framerate Issues on GT75

SLIPPYFI5T · 29 Aug 2019 at 11:34

Hi all,

Hoping for some help here. Yesterday I booted up BF5 to play online as I usually do. But, after playing for around 5-10 minutes, the frame rate would drop to basically nothing, down from the usual 80-90 at 1080p. This has never happened before and really threw me out. Temperatures for the laptop were all normal, the fans ramped up as they should and there was no thermal throttling.

I would have to force-ably shut the game down using task manager. But whilst trying to load the game to the main title, it would run very sluggish and not load at all. To rectify this, I would have to reboot the laptop and it would work fine. Whats really frustrating is it would only do this on BF5. I tried with other taxing games such as Forza Horizon 4 and they worked fine.

I tried older Nvidia drivers as I thought it might have been an update that did it, but that didn't help at all. Any advice would be much appreciated

Chris Beard · 30 Aug 2019 at 06:25

What’s the CPU load when it slows to a crawl?

BF5 Multiplayer is very CPU hungry, so whilst there’s no GPU throttling it may be your CPU heatsink is a bit dusty.

Other titles may not chew CPU in the same way.

NovaKill4 · 30 Aug 2019 at 12:27

For random issues like this i find the event viewer can be very handy.
Play a game and as soon as it starts having issues quit and open event viewer, sort by date/time and look for warnings and errors.

SLIPPYFI5T · 4 Sep 2019 at 11:03

Chris Beard said:
What’s the CPU load when it slows to a crawl?

BF5 Multiplayer is very CPU hungry, so whilst there’s no GPU throttling it may be your CPU heatsink is a bit dusty.

Other titles may not chew CPU in the same way.

So perhaps an update to the game itself has thrown it put? I'll have to double check to see, but from memory it doesn't go up ridiculously. The inside is clean. I regularly open the bottom up just to give it a blow out with compressed air.

SLIPPYFI5T · 4 Sep 2019 at 11:03

NovaKill4 said:
For random issues like this i find the event viewer can be very handy.
Play a game and as soon as it starts having issues quit and open event viewer, sort by date/time and look for warnings and errors.

That's a good call, I hadnt thought of looking at that

Scooter72 · 5 Sep 2019 at 17:44

Might be the new update .. I noticed 20% drops in FPS and lots of stuttering yesterday.. slow load times etc