FPS keeps jumping between 10 and 120

[SIKH_REGIMENT22]

Hello Computer experts,

While playing BF4 on laptop, i observed fps keeps jumping between 10 to 120. Whenever it goes below 60, game starts to lag. Laptop properties are:-


with NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1650


What do you recommend to keep fps fairly constant while gaming?

Thanks

 

[Digital Lode]

What other programs are you running while gaming? Sounds like something is using up your resources..

 

[Dan_]

I would monitor your hardware while gaming and see if something is reaching 100% when the FPS drops occur. Also watch the temps. I underclocked then undervolted my GPU to reach a stable FPS, but I didn't have dips go down to 10 FPS.

 

[5scar-STRYKER]

Easy solution to your problem is ditch the laptop and buy a good gaming computer, Just a suggestion Bro.................STRYKER.

 

[CHUPS_M]

Hello Computer experts,

While playing BF4 on laptop, i observed fps keeps jumping between 10 to 120. Whenever it goes below 60, game starts to lag. Laptop properties are:-

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with NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1650


What do you recommend to keep fps fairly constant while gaming?

Thanks

Check temperature of GPU, can be overheating

 

[fraggerizer]

loving my homebuilt desktop, RTX3060Ti, gettng near constant 200FPS in BF4

 

[Jyrodelix]

Could be a couple of things:

1. As previously mentioned, overheating. Make sure intake and exhaust ports are unobstructed and dust free. Take some canned compressed air and plow out heat sinks and fans. Ensure that intake/exhaust ports have clearance for airflow.
2. Laptops can have bloat ware, manufacturers utilities, or OS settings which favor power saving (for battery) over performance. Make sure things are set for performance.
3. Update OS patches, update drivers
4. If you’ve got a brand name laptop, do some searching to see if they have weird issues like thermal paste on cpu/gpu.
5. Some laptops have on board gpu which shares system RAM and cpu resources, plus a separate graphics card, check to make sure you’re using gpu card for gaming

if it just started happening, I’d suspect gpu cooling issues and/or OS/hardware patches/hot fix/updates.

 

[SIKH_REGIMENT22]

Yeah, it started happening from a couple weeks ago. So, i was curious what is going on here. I will clean the back panels and plan to build a computer or get a better laptop in future. Thanks for the tips team mates.

 

[whitefish21]

Yeah, it started happening from a couple weeks ago. So, i was curious what is going on here. I will clean the back panels and plan to build a computer or get a better laptop in future. Thanks for the tips team mates.

You're not the first to have this issue in recent weeks. I think part of it is EAs back end having issues. It seems to coincide with the influx of new players.

The above suggestions are good to rule out any issues on your end though.

 

[sbski]

Could be a couple of things:

1. As previously mentioned, overheating. Make sure intake and exhaust ports are unobstructed and dust free. Take some canned compressed air and plow out heat sinks and fans. Ensure that intake/exhaust ports have clearance for airflow.
2. Laptops can have bloat ware, manufacturers utilities, or OS settings which favor power saving (for battery) over performance. Make sure things are set for performance.
3. Update OS patches, update drivers
4. If you’ve got a brand name laptop, do some searching to see if they have weird issues like thermal paste on cpu/gpu.
5. Some laptops have on board gpu which shares system RAM and cpu resources, plus a separate graphics card, check to make sure you’re using gpu card for gaming

if it just started happening, I’d suspect gpu cooling issues and/or OS/hardware patches/hot fix/updates.

Very good advice. A few other things are:

• Dual channel ram (vs single channel) can offer nearly 2x the performance.
  • Some cheaper laptops come with single channel RAM but have another DIMM to install more.
• Thermals are not straightforward and some laptops will run at 95c nearly all the time. My Lenovo would pull the power limits down whenever it got too hot. Reducing the power limits slightly got rid of nearly all of the stuttering in games.

 

[Jyrodelix]

One thought to determine if it’s game related or something else, use a video benchmark utility. Stress out your gpu, see if it acts up due to temps.

 

[RyanNet11]

I would try seeing what is happening during the low spikes using task manager. Your components might be close to max, and that can sometimes cause drops in framerate, and lag. My suggestion is to only have battlefield 4 running and close all unnecessary programs that might be utilizing lots of your computer's recourses.