Now after being serviced, the fan's clean. The fan was actually clogged with dust before the laptop got dropped. I have never tried messing with overclocking or underclocking it as I've never felt the need to since the games ran fine. It's always gotten pretty hot though and it's been fine for years. With AMD Radeon Software's metric overlay and MSI Afterburner I noticed that the GPU usage was dropping to 0 and fluctuating back up causing the fps drops as shown in the pics below.Īlso, the GPU gets pretty hot. I tried another game Far Cry 4 and again, normal fps then massive fps drops. After every consecutive match I played though, the fps drops seemed to get more frequent. Then it returned to normal after about 15-20 secs before it started happening again after a min or 30 secs. So when I ran Rocket League it ran fine at the usual consistent 50ish fps but about 4 mins into a match I had severe fps drops down to 15-20 fps from 55 fps to the point where even the audio was lagging and crackling in my earphones. The laptop essentially came back "brand new." I had the HDD changed as well and with that came some loss of data unfortunately so I had to reinstall the drivers. I had it sent to be fixed and took the opportunity to have it serviced as well since I hadn't had the fan cleaned in a while.
My GPU is good enough to run the game at 50-ish fps on low settings and has done so since I started playing the game in 2016.Ī few weeks ago though someone carelessly handled my laptop and it fell down from a distance big enough to crack the screen. I play this one game a lot: Rocket League. I could upload my DxDiag or give any other information necessary if needed.Īnyways, for the amount of time I've had this laptop I have not run into any issues with it when playing games which my AMD GPU can handle. GPU: Hybrid of Intel(R) HD Graphics 520 and AMD Radeon R7 M340ĬPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6500U CPU 2.50GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.6GHz
Please don't read this and instantly start typing a reply to just upgrade my laptop because I would love to and am saving up to get a good upgrade eventually but I have to make the best out of my current one for now. So right off the bat, I have an old laptop which is 5 years old. I know this is a long read but I would be grateful if you have the time to read this to the end and maybe offer some solutions.
Fixed an invisible wall exploit in mp_freighter.I've been having this problem with my AMD GPU to which I've been trying to find a solution to all over the internet to no avail.Fixed bug in leaning with different player classes.Improved syncronization in multiplayer.
Enabling this feature during the game may take some time – the PC may appear to freeze. To enable it, type r_TexNormalMapCompressed 1 in the console after loading a level. Requirements: NVidia: Geforce FX Family or better, ATI: x800 card or better. Fixed a delay relating to tagging enemies in binocular mode.Fixed problems related to shaders1.pak and scripts1.pak not being removed on installation of the patch.Fixed a mounted weapon traverse problem.
This latest patch for Far Cry includes bug fixes and improvements.