So I bought this ASUS ROG Strix used laptop a few days ago, and It's pretty snappy when it comes to daily tasks such as browsing and watching HD/4K video, rocking a GTX 1050 (4 GB of VRAM) and an i7-7700 HQ, 16 GB of RAM, a 256 GB SSD accompanied with a 1 TB hard drive.
It's the 17-inch ROG Strix GL753VD laptop. Now, I understand that a GTX 1050 is not particularly the be all and end all of graphics card, and is in fact slowly degrading in performance as game developers lean in towards higher resolutions and textures in games, but it's still a decent-enough graphics card, decent enough to play last-gen games such as Just Cause 3 and Grand Theft Auto V.
But oddly, the laptop runs quite badly on games, even 2014-era stuff. And, though in its fairness it's 'used', it should still be capable of managing stable frame-rates. The games I run on it run fine at the beginning, but after a few seconds quickly start to massively drop. And its almost as if these frame drops are calculated, weirdly enough. It goes like this: Runs fine for like 80 milliseconds, drops for 40 milliseconds, runs fine for 80 milliseconds..etc. And it keeps going this way, unlike regular "frame drops", you'd expect to see them every time the game displays too much stuff on screen or when you've been running the game for a while, but here, it just stutters right off the start and DOES NOT STOP, not even for a second.
I updated all my drivers and I tried to optimize the game's settings, but even LOW SETTINGS manage to make the FPS drop massively.
I ran SFC to check for corrupted files, I lowered my background tasks even though there was like 2 or 3 whom barely utilized the CPU.
I factory reset the computer and updated everything on Windows 10. I turned off game-mode and made sure the games run on the dedicated GPU not Intel's integrated one.
I re-installed the games and made sure I met the recommended hardware for each game but bizarrely enough, the game still stuttered even when running at XP-like resolutions.
I made sure the temperatures of the CPU and the GPU stayed cool during playing. And I even checked the PC for viruses and ran a dozen-so virus scans on multiple anti-viruses.
AND I EVEN tried over-clocking the GTX 1050, but that just seemed to make matters worse.
I beg any one for help, this laptop hasn't even been used a ton by the previous owner, and I really want to be able to play on it normally.
It's the 17-inch ROG Strix GL753VD laptop. Now, I understand that a GTX 1050 is not particularly the be all and end all of graphics card, and is in fact slowly degrading in performance as game developers lean in towards higher resolutions and textures in games, but it's still a decent-enough graphics card, decent enough to play last-gen games such as Just Cause 3 and Grand Theft Auto V.
But oddly, the laptop runs quite badly on games, even 2014-era stuff. And, though in its fairness it's 'used', it should still be capable of managing stable frame-rates. The games I run on it run fine at the beginning, but after a few seconds quickly start to massively drop. And its almost as if these frame drops are calculated, weirdly enough. It goes like this: Runs fine for like 80 milliseconds, drops for 40 milliseconds, runs fine for 80 milliseconds..etc. And it keeps going this way, unlike regular "frame drops", you'd expect to see them every time the game displays too much stuff on screen or when you've been running the game for a while, but here, it just stutters right off the start and DOES NOT STOP, not even for a second.
I updated all my drivers and I tried to optimize the game's settings, but even LOW SETTINGS manage to make the FPS drop massively.
I ran SFC to check for corrupted files, I lowered my background tasks even though there was like 2 or 3 whom barely utilized the CPU.
I factory reset the computer and updated everything on Windows 10. I turned off game-mode and made sure the games run on the dedicated GPU not Intel's integrated one.
I re-installed the games and made sure I met the recommended hardware for each game but bizarrely enough, the game still stuttered even when running at XP-like resolutions.
I made sure the temperatures of the CPU and the GPU stayed cool during playing. And I even checked the PC for viruses and ran a dozen-so virus scans on multiple anti-viruses.
AND I EVEN tried over-clocking the GTX 1050, but that just seemed to make matters worse.
I beg any one for help, this laptop hasn't even been used a ton by the previous owner, and I really want to be able to play on it normally.
