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CPU usage drops from ~100% to ~30%

Anonymous
2024-12-23T16:39:21+00:00

When I start to play GTA V, my FPS is great and graphics are fine.
But after a few minutes of playing the FPS suddenly drops drastically, and the game has a lot of issues with rendering the area. At the same time, I saw on my task manager that the CPU-usage dropped from around 100% to about 30%, while on MSI Afterburner it stayed at about 100%. The clockspeed also went from 2.4GHz to 0.8GHz.
Could anyone please assist me to resolve this issue?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Alvise C 56,031 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-12-26T17:55:04+00:00

    Yes, 90° is high. When the temperature is too high, the processor goes into self-protection and forcibly restarts the system

    You should also see a kernel power id 41 error in the event viewer

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-12-25T00:01:48+00:00

    I have NVIDIA driver version from that date.
    I have not experienced this issue playing another game, because that's pretty much the only high-demanding game I play.

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  2. Alvise C 56,031 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-12-24T08:41:41+00:00

    ok thank for your note

    but, what is the driver that you've installed? in the lenovo support i see only three drivers where the most recent is 2020

    did you experience this problem only with GTA or with all games?

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-24T00:02:39+00:00

    Hi Alvise

    My laptop is the following one:
    Lenovo ideapad L340-15IRH Gaming (81LK01GCMB)

    I haven't overclocked anything as far as I remember.
    I will note that my GPU drivers are still on a version from Sep 21, 2023. This is because if I upgrade them to a newer version, the pc screen just doesn't start after the Lenovo loading screen after restarting. I haven't found the reason nor the solution for that.

    Thank you for your assistance.

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  4. Alvise C 56,031 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-12-23T20:31:28+00:00

    Hi p., welcome in community

    I'm Alvise, an indipendent consultant and i'm eager to support you today.

    please, share the exact model of your notebook or desktop pc, then remove any overclock you applied to the video card, CPU or RAM

    in these case it's important to work in default clockspeed for debug the problem

    do you know how to do it? if you don't, let me know and I'll explain how

    let me know

    Elvis

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