I’m getting fps drops to the single digits, while on average its around 30 fps. Even on lower settings and in smaller instances. my specs are:

  • AMD Ryzen 7
  • 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR4
  • 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
  • 953GB Western Digital WDC PC SN730 SDBPNTY-1T00-1101
  • 1863GB Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2T (Starfield’s installed here)

Any help or insight is welcome.

Solved: It was an overheating CPU due to the vents being clogged with dust. Thanks for all the advice given, I do really appreciate it!

    • Patariki@feddit.nlOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I did install this mod today, and although my average fps went up to about 35/40 fps, i still get those massive framedrops. They only last about 5 seconds, but its getting quite annoying. I did some searching before I posted here and all i could find was “install on ssd”, and both my drives are ssd so i doubt that’s the issue.

      • Dalek Thal@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Nah, DLSS works fine on any RTX cards, but DLSS frame-gen isn’t possible on anything except the 4000 series

      • Patariki@feddit.nlOPEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I red all rtx cards could do DLSS, but only the 40xx could do DLSSG, but just like you I’m no expert on these things.

  • Dalek Thal@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    10 months ago

    How’s the heat on it? Using a PC (desktop) with slightly higher specs than yours, but no problems on High settings. Heavy framedrops like that could mean your CPU is getting throttled due to overheating (based on my old laptop which was a 960M and i5-6700HQ)

    Similarly, what settings are you running at? I’m sitting on a 2060 Super (slightly above 2070 in power), and can’t get it above high if I want more than 30fps.

    So yeah, two biggest things are temps and settings.

    • Patariki@feddit.nlOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I installed something to monitor the temperatures, and indeed my cpu is hovering between 90 and 100 degrees Celsius. Is there anything i can do about that? Maybe applying some fresh thermal paste?

      Settings were the first thing I lowered to see if it had an impact, as it didnt make a difference i doubted that was the culprit.

  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Does the Legion 5 come with built in tuning software? My MSI Raider has an app called “MSI Center” that can adjust performance, and I fixed a similar issue recently by enabling “gaming mode” for the affected game (and now I enable it for every graphically intensive game). Now my fans sound like a jet taking off, but performance is noticeably better. Not perfect in Starfield (my FPS is sitting in the mid 40s most of the time, on High settings, at 4k), but pretty good.