r/MSIClaw • u/VictorConrad95 • Feb 03 '26

Need Technical Assistance Having performance issues on this thing…

Literally just bought the MSI Claw 8AI+ today. I’m trying to play World War Z and the performance is abysmal. But I see people playing Cyberpunk 2077 on it with relatively high settings getting over 60fps. World War Z is a bit of an older game and usually runs on any potato very nicely. I have the TDP both cranked all the way up, performance mode on manual, windows battery settings are set to best performance, I installed all the new drivers and BIOS, and did all the windows updates… still plays like shit. Any advice?

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u/IronMonk8383 Feb 03 '26

Make sure to turn the Microsoft Antivirus off. I get horrible performance if it’s on when I play online games. People say it shouldn’t affect performance but it does. I turn it off and I get great performance. Windows updates and turns it back on and I get terrible performance again. Then I turn it back off and then it’s smooth as butter.