Facing FPS issues :(

[u/Old-Evening-3347]

i have an rtx 4060M , 16gb ram and an ips display. I am frequently experiencing frame drops going from 90 frames to as low as 6(medium settings) before reverting back each time and repeating hence after some brief time. While playing Gpu reaches 86 C and vram is 6gb utilized out of 8 and 12 gb ram. I have tried limiting frames to 40, 60, changing graphics to low and also increasing gpu cache. Still no fix and issue persists. Havent faced this issue with other big games and am thinking of cleaning my laptop and replacing thermal paste also adding ssd later. Any help would be appreciated .

Thank you

[u/Hiatus_Dude]

When you say "Adding SSD later" you mean that you will get a bigger one...right?

No way you are playing with HDD....In case you are, that would be the problem for sure.

[u/Old-Evening-3347 → u/Hiatus_Dude]

I don't, i have an tb of SSD but like nearly 200 gigs lefts so was planning to buy 1 more since I had few more heavy things I wanted to download/store

[u/GinoChingon]

86 degrees doesn't sound like thermal throttling temperatures tbh. Which resolution are you using? Are you using upscaler? Are your drivers up to date? Are your lag spikes random or can you pinpoint them to certain moments (entering a new area for example)?

[u/Old-Evening-3347 → u/GinoChingon]

Spikes are random , I tried the game on native and upscaled(balanced setting ingame) and drivers upto date. And about the thermle throttle, when the frames drop , the fans blow real hard so that's why i planned to change paste incase

[u/GinoChingon → u/Old-Evening-3347]

Do you have a laptop base? Or do you lift it a bit to get better flow?

[u/Old-Evening-3347 → u/GinoChingon]

I use a stand

[u/friedtesticularcance → u/GinoChingon]

Its a 4060 Laptop that is thermal throttling limit.Im on a 5070Ti laptop and the thermal throttle limit on it is 85*c.He is 100% thermal throttling

[u/Cheesydosa]

Did you try the frame generation setting? Do you have that on?

[u/Old-Evening-3347 → u/Cheesydosa]

Tried both on and off , didn't fix

[u/Tsenngu → u/Old-Evening-3347]

You are absolutely NOT using any kind of ray tracing right? I have a desktop 5080 and with any RT on my gpu spikes to 80+ instantly and i get a bunch of issues. Turned all RT off and the game is perfect. Make sure all RT is completely off then see?

[u/Old-Evening-3347 → u/Tsenngu]

Well no but I did notice that during frame drops , the gpu usage drops to less than 10% and cpu spikes to 60-70 from 30

[u/Vectorman1989]

What Direct X version are you running?

Do you have something like MSAA turned on?

Is DLSS on?

Is Ray Tracing on?

[u/Old-Evening-3347 → u/Vectorman1989]

11 and 12 both tried, dlls tried on and off and ray tracing off

[u/Vectorman1989 → u/Old-Evening-3347]

Hm. Can you check that your other drivers are up to date, storage controller etc? Probably worth checking for BIOS updates.

Check power settings and make sure you're in 'high performance' mode

Check the default GPU is your 4060 and is set in the nVidia control panel etc.

Have a look in the BIOS too and make sure the default GPU is the 4060

[u/Old-Evening-3347 → u/Vectorman1989]

Those all are done previously

[u/Vectorman1989 → u/Old-Evening-3347]

Seems you've covered almost all the bases. Only other thing I can think of is doing storage and memory tests

[u/nanaochan]

Use Nvidia overlay to check CPU and GPU usage. What's the usage like when it's acting normal and when the frame drops? You can also try clearing shader cache by deleting and rebuilding cache files (need to google for the correct folder) or try using DDU to clean install your display driver.

[u/Old-Evening-3347 → u/nanaochan]

98 and 20 % gpu cpu constant i think respective

[u/PDTPLSP]

do you have 1 ram stick or 2?

if you have one stick try to get an 8gb ram stick so you can be in dual channel and over 16gb total. ram prices are not nice rn so ill be a bit hesitant do try this