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DR
Profile Joined September 2010
54 Posts
September 29 2018 19:07 GMT
#1
Hello,

I just bought a new Laptop Acer Aspire 7 (A715-72G-74ZB) with Windows 10 installed. During Laddergames i get FPS-Drops. My Framerate is around around 230 FPS and drops to around 180 FPS which makes it impossible to play. I tried everything i could think of to fix this:

- turning DVR off
- trying different settings in NVIDIA
- Poweroptions
- Ingame-graphicsettings
- Firewall/Antivirus
- Disabling Startupservices (msconfig)
- Installing latest drivers

Any help is much aprreciated.

Thank you.
wyf
Profile Joined July 2018
Canada2 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-09-29 19:31:37
September 29 2018 19:31 GMT
#2
Hey,

You can try adding Frameratecap=(144 120, 60 or whatever the refresh rate of your monitor is) in the SC2 variables.txt file that you can find in your documents folder.

You don't need a framerate exceeding the refresh rate but I know drops can be very annoying.

Hope that helps!
DR
Profile Joined September 2010
54 Posts
September 29 2018 19:36 GMT
#3
On September 30 2018 04:31 wyf wrote:
Hey,

You can try adding Frameratecap=(144 120, 60 or whatever the refresh rate of your monitor is) in the SC2 variables.txt file that you can find in your documents folder.

You don't need a framerate exceeding the refresh rate but I know drops can be very annoying.

Hope that helps!


Thanks for the answer i already tried that before and it does what it should do, but I still get FPS drops :/
BTW you can also do this with a command in the Battle.net-MENU.
Zrana1
Profile Joined February 2017
Netherlands45 Posts
September 29 2018 20:11 GMT
#4
This should probably be in the tech support forum, but anyway; i would recommend lowering the setting called 'effects' (i think). That's the one which increases the quality of particles, beams etc. The improvement you get is not worth the fps cost.

Also, 180fps = unplayable? I never go above 144 and most people are fine with 60.
DR
Profile Joined September 2010
54 Posts
September 29 2018 20:21 GMT
#5
On September 30 2018 05:11 Zrana1 wrote:
This should probably be in the tech support forum, but anyway; i would recommend lowering the setting called 'effects' (i think). That's the one which increases the quality of particles, beams etc. The improvement you get is not worth the fps cost.

Also, 180fps = unplayable? I never go above 144 and most people are fine with 60.


All settings are already on low. The problem is the Framedrop, which result in lag.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20342 Posts
September 29 2018 20:32 GMT
#6
Make sure your CPU isn't throttling
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
DR
Profile Joined September 2010
54 Posts
September 29 2018 20:43 GMT
#7
On September 30 2018 05:32 Cyro wrote:
Make sure your CPU isn't throttling

+1 I know SC2 is very CPU-heavy. I think it is a possibility, but how do I find out and how do i change it?
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20342 Posts
September 29 2018 21:06 GMT
#8
By running hardware monitoring tools like www.hwinfo.com while you're playing
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
DR
Profile Joined September 2010
54 Posts
September 29 2018 21:50 GMT
#9
On September 30 2018 06:06 Cyro wrote:
By running hardware monitoring tools like www.hwinfo.com while you're playing


I actually tried it out and thermal throttling is happening in 1 core. So how can i solve this problem now?
Zrana1
Profile Joined February 2017
Netherlands45 Posts
September 29 2018 22:24 GMT
#10
If it's a new build and the temperature is getting high, make sure you have your thermal paste applied properly where the cpu heatsink attaches to the cpu. Also make sure any fans are pointing in the right way...i've had mine set up backwards before.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20342 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-09-29 22:41:08
September 29 2018 22:38 GMT
#11
It's a laptop!

If the throttling is due to heat then it's a hardware problem
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
DR
Profile Joined September 2010
54 Posts
September 29 2018 23:01 GMT
#12
So do you think this is not normal and falls under warranty?
digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6331 Posts
September 30 2018 14:16 GMT
#13
No it's normal, and nothing you can do about it. It's a laptop fitted with a 6 core i7 which has high thermal throttling potential due to laptops usually can not efficiently cool it under high load.
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Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20342 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-09-30 16:00:23
September 30 2018 15:58 GMT
#14
Could be thermal paste issue or something, even poor cooling design on that particular laptop. Whatever it's from i wouldn't accept any hardware that can't run basic workloads without throttling. The hottest core of the CPU will be far cooler running sc2 than it would be doing multi-core tasks
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
maddogmcgee
Profile Joined January 2011
Australia105 Posts
October 03 2018 08:35 GMT
#15
Are you sure you turned the FPS down to 60? That should make a big difference to the temps.

The other thing you can check is that the CPU is getting decent airflow. I bought a used Chromebook a few weeks that would be as loud as a banshee as soon as you opened youtube etc. Turns out there was a plastic tape with tiny holes under all the grills. Soon as I took it off the problem went away.

For your laptop, try elevating it by a few centimeters so there is room for fresh air to reach all the fan grills. Even its too hard to play like this, try a replay. If this works you know it is an airflow problem.
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johan121
Profile Joined December 2019
1 Post
December 11 2019 07:12 GMT
#16
If there is an FPS drops issue in your windows 10 then I think you update your windows version or you can check your display and personalization setting that there are no changes happened.

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heqat
Profile Joined October 2011
Switzerland96 Posts
December 11 2019 07:36 GMT
#17
On September 30 2018 04:07 DR wrote:

I just bought a new Laptop Acer Aspire 7 (A715-72G-74ZB) with Windows 10 installed. During Laddergames i get FPS-Drops. My Framerate is around around 230 FPS and drops to around 180 FPS which makes it impossible to play. I tried everything i could think of to fix this:



What you mean by make the game unplayable ?

180 FPS is a very high number and should be good enough to play. Maybe it is a CPU problem or a throttling problem due to heat. You can check that using the task manager: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-manage-power-throttling-windows-10.

deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12132 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-11 09:32:42
December 11 2019 09:24 GMT
#18
On December 11 2019 16:36 heqat wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 30 2018 04:07 DR wrote:

I just bought a new Laptop Acer Aspire 7 (A715-72G-74ZB) with Windows 10 installed. During Laddergames i get FPS-Drops. My Framerate is around around 230 FPS and drops to around 180 FPS which makes it impossible to play. I tried everything i could think of to fix this:



What you mean by make the game unplayable ?

180 FPS is a very high number and should be good enough to play. Maybe it is a CPU problem or a throttling problem due to heat. You can check that using the task manager: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-manage-power-throttling-windows-10.


A big HW lag. Imagine you have 230 FPS now and the next second you get 0 FPS for 0.5s. And then you have the 230 FPS. IT would have shown you 115 FPS if you're able to notice, maybe some better capturing software would have shown something like this mroe than a simple drop to 180. That's at least what I'm experiencing EXPECTING FFS, a short frozen 0 FPS moment.

edit> wrong word, English hard, no cofee didn't help either
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Dingodile
Profile Joined December 2011
4139 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-11 14:07:22
December 11 2019 12:51 GMT
#19
Use a fps-cap then you dont notice the drop anymore. -frameratecap=150 or lower in your case.
I use frameratecap=60 and frameratecapglue=60. You dont need 200fps at menue aswell^^

edit: in both games (sc2 and diablo3), menue wants more power than the actual play/game.
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