New Laptop Freezing/FPS drops

okz

Estimable
May 4, 2014
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4,510
Hey i recently upgraded my laptop. I purchased a toshiba satellite l50-A-1EH. (http://www.vergelijk.nl/notebook/toshiba/satellite_l50_a_1eh/specs.rhtml)
The laptop seems to be encountering some performance issues, i first noticed this and it is most prevalent in games. (Path of Exile and Diablo 3).

Whilst i get around a smooth 50-60 fps in these games i am noticing large fps drops and freezes periodically. These drops are down to 0-3 fps and may even lead to the game crashing.
Whilst potentially not related i have also been aware of some problems with my computer itself. Some windows occasionally fail to respond or open slowly.

I initially believed the problem was solely with path of exile and as a result took steps to try and fix the ingame fps spikes i was seeing. I downloaded nvidia inspector and tried various configurations of v sync, fps caps in various combinations and this has proved either ineffective or i haven't yet hit the golden combination of settings.
I downloaded diablo 3 and that was when i realized that the problems were not path of exile specific. I am also unsure as to whether the performance issues are solely with gaming, or as a result of trying to do other things whilst games are in the progress of failing to respond.

My GPU is not overheating, however i did notice when i was running path of exile the spikes down to 0 fps did coincide with a dips in my gpu usage to 0%.

So does anyone have any suggestions, the laptop does seem to run fine in almost every other aspect, though as i stated before i am unsure as to what extent windows failing to respond was related to games in the background.
Thanks in advance!
 

okz

Estimable
May 4, 2014
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4,510
I actually found a solution to anyone who may be encountering similar difficulties. If you are using an intel cpu, diable cpu hyperthreading in bios. If can create a conflict with nvidia graphics cards causing freezing in games.

If you have no option in your bios to disable cpu hyperthreading you can manage which cores are assigned to each program in task manager. Simply make sure your game is only using physical cores rather than virtual ones and it has the same affect as disabling hyperthreading.
 

remex

Commendable
Apr 8, 2016
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1,510
I have this problem too TOSHIBA SATELLITE P70-A in everygame my FPS drop from 60 to 30 from 30 to 15 every 1min make the game freeze for 1 sec make it impossible to play any game in PVP, the SOLUTION WORK! <3 I selected only the first 4 core in taskmenager menage affinity(core 0,1,2,3) default are 7, I think the 4,5,6,7 are the logic one cause the PC now work fine, no more freeze!!! thanks man been looking for a solution from weeks
 

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