Constant CPU throttling at relatively low temperatures
RESOLVED: Forgot to switch my computer from power saver mode to high performance mode. Yup.
When playing this game on my laptop my CPU seems to be throttling constantly (pretty much every minute), which kills my FPS and renders the game unplayable for several seconds. The thing is, this keeps happening even though my CPU temperatures don't get higher than ~65C or so (at least, according to ThrottleStop).
I've done a bunch of things like undervolting and getting a laptop cooler to keep the temperature as low as I can reasonably get it, but if the CPU keeps throttling anyway there's no point. It's really confusing and bizarre because before I got my laptop cooler and I was playing the game at higher temperatures I swear it wasn't throttling. Anyone have an explanation, because it would suck to not be able to play after anticipating playing it for a while.
My laptop: https://support.hp.com/ca-en/document/c05535078
As a side-note, anyone try using Hialgo programs with BDO to any success? They made Skyrim playable on my old crappy computer and it'd be nice to have smoother gameplay in this one too, assuming I can work out the problem above.
Posted Aug 9, 2017, 11:01 PM UTC · edited
How do you know it's throttling? It may actually be a GPU bottleneck.
I figure it's CPU throttling because whenever I hit one of those lag spikes in-game and I look at ThrottleStop I see the CPU temperatures going down until they're at ~50C or so. The strange thing is, that when I used [something else] (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/5695/?) to augment how my CPU runs I had no lag spikes for the time I tested it. But now, even using it I still get lag spikes. So I don't know.
I'll try looking into my GPU, though. Thanks for the suggestion.
Given the behavior you're describing, it is possible your CPU is throttling when it shouldn't be, but it is far more likely that your CPU is waiting for something else. This isn't abnormal or a sign of something wrong, but if it happens constantly you may have something you can adjust.
Or it could just be me being an idiot and not realizing his laptop was on power saver mode after he drained the battery too much. Once I put it on high performance again, it ran exactly like I described it last night, with no throttling whatsoever. Hopefully that's all there is to this problem.
Thanks for the help, though! Sorry for bugging you with a problem that turned out to be much more trivial than I initially thought.