I’m very new to all this Pc stuff so if I’m missing something important lemme know? The game isn’t too laggy either I’m getting at least 57fps but shouldn’t it be more?
You’re hitting either a massive thermal throttle or having an issue with the power adapter.
Also, 57fps is pretty good on a laptop i3 with near max RAM usage.
Juno said:
You’re hitting either a massive thermal throttle or having an issue with the power adapter.
Also, 57fps is pretty good on a laptop i3 with near max RAM usage.
Oh so your saying it doesn’t have good enough requirements and fortnite is making it have that thermal throttle? Also what’s the issue with the adapter
@Harper
You’re close, thermal throttles happen with insufficient cooling for sustained loads, so the laptop drops the CPU speed down to bring the heat down.
A game is a sustained load. Most day-to-day programs have bursts of power and the laptop cooling can handle that.
The i3 you have is a 15W package and built for tablets/thin laptops. Expected use cases; office work, web browsing, media consumption, light gaming, travel.
Fortnight will run on this hardware but is built for something with more power behind it.
The adapter is possibly bad, or is not HP. I would think the laptop would need a 45W charger but it’s possibly expecting a 65W (unlikely with i3).
Check the power adapter and see if it’s HP branded, if it’s aftermarket then that’s possibly your issue.
If you quit the game, you can check if the CPU speed ever goes back up.
@Juno
Yeah the adapter is hp but its a 45W charger
Harper said:
@Juno
Yeah the adapter is hp but its a 45W charger
That makes sense.
Close the game and let it sit for a bit. See if the speed goes back up.
You can also test the charger issue if you unplug it in the game. The speed would go up if it’s the charger doing this.
Harper said:
@Juno
Yeah the adapter is hp but its a 45W charger
Under power options go to your active plan , advanced power settings processor power management and set minimal plugged in: 50% max 100%
Battery leave as is
Turn OFF pci management things from maximum power savings plugged in to OFF and that should help you with more fps and re apply thermal paste to your cpu it shouldn’t be hard to do for hp
@Beck
Didn’t work
Harper said:
@Beck
Didn’t work
That is interesting, your cpu must be overheating have you re applied thermal paste since you got the system ?
Harper said:
@Beck
Didn’t work
That is interesting, your cpu must be overheating have you re applied thermal paste since you got the system ?
Just got it today lmao😭
@Harper
2nd hand or in store
Eitherbway when you get a laptop you’ll want new paste when you can for best results
@Harper
Literally ignore the guy. He has 0 clue what hed talking about. You cannot get 60fps with 720mhz cpu clock. Its a known bug in the performance viewer. Use hwinfo instead.
@Harper
Are you using it on your bed?
Juno said:
You’re hitting either a massive thermal throttle or having an issue with the power adapter.
Also, 57fps is pretty good on a laptop i3 with near max RAM usage.
The fact this has upvotes is blowing my mind. Its clearly a known bug in the windows performance viewer.
In no world are you getting 60fps in fortnite with any cpu at 720mhz.
Blud might actually end up buying a new psu because of your dumb reply.
Welcome to the world of marketing. The advertised value is the maximum boost clock, which can only be reached for a short time for “burst” loads and usually also only for a single core. As soon as all cores are used for a prolonged time, like when gaming, the boost clock drops considerably.
That being said, it should definitely be higher than 0,72 GHz. Check your power settings in Windows and your CPU temps.
@Nevin
Yeah i checked my power settings too you can see my profile and the pictures i shared of it when i sent it only showed balanced power mode when i wanted to adjust the settings so i had to make my own
@Harper
Get HWINFO.
If will monitor your temps and you can check if it is throttling. If the CPU is throttling, then it’s getting too hot so it slows down to cool down. HWINFO will even tell you how many percent of the time it spends throttled. Of course HWINFO will also consume some resources while running but that’s fine.
Run some benchmarks and take how long it takes your frequency to drop and what it drops too.
My ThinkPad does like 2 or 3 drops before it stays steady under load.
@Nevin
looks like he is using it on top of a bed, which is blocking air intake vents, and that stable graph shows its throttling, even in power saving mode my i3 reaches 2 Ghz easily.
Ellis said:
@Nevin
looks like he is using it on top of a bed, which is blocking air intake vents, and that stable graph shows its throttling, even in power saving mode my i3 reaches 2 Ghz easily.
I first used it on a glass table then a wooden desk never my bed
Ellis said:
@Nevin
looks like he is using it on top of a bed, which is blocking air intake vents, and that stable graph shows its throttling, even in power saving mode my i3 reaches 2 Ghz easily.
Nah, I think something else is strange here. If it really was at .72 GHz, and only 50% CPU usage at that, I don’t think he’d still be playing Fortnite at 50+ fps. When my laptop was stuck at .8 GHz because of a power management bug once, it was barely even usable on the desktop.
OP, have you tried using HWMonitor to check your clock speeds and temps like a lot of people suggested? What were the results?