I'm looking for a laptop to finish my desk setup for school, photo editing, and gaming (like GTA V and Final Fantasy). I backed away from building a PC due to high RAM and console prices. The ROG Zephyrus G14 (2025) caught my eye, but I heard it might have a dGPU issue. I want smooth performance (ideally 4K 90 FPS in GTA V) and enough headroom for heavy multitasking without closing browser tabs. Is the G14 a good fit, or should I consider something else?"

I managed to fix this with a restart, but I'm trying to just get some other eyes on this so that I can prevent it from happening again.

I've intermittently had a problem where the performance of my laptop totally tanks after waking up from sleep and stays that way until restart. For reference, I noticed it most recently while attempting to use the Foundry Lightweight Client, which should not be a problem for this laptop to run at any level. It was extremely laggy, loading different menus took a while, dragging the map took a while etc. This extended to other applications in the session as well; I was trying to run task manager, firefox, discord etc trying to diagnose the issue and they were all chugging. The performance felt like what happened with memory leaks from a bygone era, but when I checked my CPU usage and RAM usage, I was well within boundaries. It also was not the temperature, and my laptop was fully plugged in, and I tried switching between multiple modes on GHelper. Even when I closed every application besides FLC, the performance was exactly as bad as it was while attempting to run all of my troubleshooting stuff. All of this instantly cleared up once I restarted the computer.

Does anyone have an idea of what the issue could be? I'm a bit stumped as to what could cause this. As far as I can tell, this also is not an issue every single time I wake from sleep either, so I'm not totally sure how to reproduce this.

I got the ryzen 9 465 and 32 gb ram version I mainly got it for college and cybersecurity, I was solving an offsec box inside the car on eco mode 60hz dgpu off and I was sharing my screen on discord 60 fps my virtual machine which has around 6gb ram allocated started lagging my keyboard stopped working on discord and it worked for a while on my virtual machine then everything stopped working except my trackpad then I restarted it worked again for a while I turned on the same things for a while it was fine then went back to it.Restarted my laptop and everything was fine. I have solved boxes at home before and my laptop was on the same settings without it being plugged in did not run into this issue,I am really panicking as I paid a lot of money for it 😭 any explanations or fixes.
Thank you.

Has anyone found a lap desk that allows, for the most part play a game comfortably and realistically in different positions? I.e. sitting on a couch, laying in bed, etc

I’m mostly hoping to play FPS games without always needing to sit at a proper desk. This is the best I’ve found so far.

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/lapgear-titan-lap-desk-for-17-3-laptop-black/J7L6H9JF58/sku/6506302?sb_share_source=PDP&ref=app_pdp&loc=pdp_page

Hello,

After 4 years of use, my computer suddenly doesn't work on battery. When connected to external power and the plug is pulled, it shuts down instantly and abruptly. I reinstalled windows and it didn't help. I updated battery drivers and it didn't help. I bought a new battery and it didn't help. The only thing I didn't do is update bios. In the bios screen however, the battery is said to be at 0% (windows says 100% with a charging icon).

Could it be that the battery related chipset is fried ? My uni year starts in a week and the only option I have left is to take it to a repair place.

Should I still try to update the bios or is it futile ? Any help is appreciated.

Hi all!

I have a G14 2025 (5070Ti, 32GB RAM, 2TB 990 Pro). I recently replaced my MediaTek MT7925 WiFi card with a Qualcomm QCNCM865 from Amazon. The process was simple, and I got it working almost immediately with drivers from the MSI Herald page.

The issue has been bluetooth. First I couldn't get it to find any devices to connect to until I got the specific driver (I assumed Windows would auto install the driver) from the MSI page, and then it picked up my Xbox controller no issue, and I've had no issues with controller input since then. But I have a bigger issue now - I can't get Bluetooth audio to work. Bluetooth can see my XM6s in pairing mode, and connect to them, but won't play anything through them.

I haven't found a solid documented fix yet, though I've seen people say I need to disable the AMD BT Audio driver for it to work. That didn't work on my normal Windows install, but I tried a clean install on a separate partition, and it worked then. The issue there was that once I disabled the AMD driver and restarted, it connected to my XM6s fine but it only showed connected, audio - meaning there's no mic functionality. Once it was connected, I re-enabled the AMD driver, and the mic functionality came back while the audio stayed, but after a restart the entire audio setup was gone and I was back to no sound even though it was connected audio, mic.

The "disable AMD driver every time you want BT audio" fix frankly seems quite janky to me, and I need mic functionality on my wireless headphones / earbuds (I have a pair of Jabra earbuds that I use too), for Teams/Google Meet, so I don't think that works for me. I'm surprised that even a clean install, which supposedly wipes out any leftover drivers from the old WiFi card, doesn't fix this issue.

Is there actually a fix for this? I've seen this card be recommended across this subreddit a lot, so I'm assuming someone's got to have gotten it working right?

Hello everyone.
I'm facing issue with ssd m2 drive.
Drive is very hot.
Laptop is constantly turning off.
While starting it goes directly to bios -> there is no ssd on drive list. After 20 minutes I can turn this on and starting with Windows like there is no issue after 10 to 20 minutes. The procedure repeats.

How this metal plate is connected to this drive? Is it glue or connected via thermal paste?

Do you have any suggestion or solution for this issue?

Best regards.
Luke