I've been having a tough time with my HP Omen gaming laptop that has an RTX 3070 and 16 GB of memory, which I got in May 2023. I'm primarily playing DayZ and Rainbow Six Siege. After two years away from gaming, I noticed DayZ was really choppy, showing only about 17 to 27 FPS. My friend advised me to update my NVIDIA drivers, but that didn't help and Rainbow Six Siege also dropped to around 20 FPS.
With some help, we checked various settings and even monitored memory usage. It turned out I was using about 97% of my memory with background programs running. Once I closed these, my FPS improved to the 60-70 range, which was great for one night.
However, the next day, DayZ went back to crashing at 20 FPS. After taking my laptop to a repair shop for a clean install of Windows, my FPS initially shot up to 80-100, but then the crashes returned after a few minutes of gameplay. Even after updating my GPU drivers post-repair, the games still crashed occasionally, and my FPS has dropped back down to 20. I can't tab out or even access the Task Manager during these crashes, forcing me to hard restart the laptop. I'm really stuck on what to try next, so I'd appreciate any suggestions.
2 Answers
It sounds like your PC has some conflicting issues with the drivers after the Windows update. Sometimes, Windows can revert drivers without notice. I’d recommend checking if the drivers were downgraded after your updates. If they were, you can try following a guide to prevent Windows from auto-updating them in the future.
If crashes are still a problem, check the event viewer after a crash. It can give you some insight into what might be causing the issues.
I haven’t checked the event viewer yet, but I’m not experiencing crashes right now. The real issue is that both games are stuck in the low 20s for FPS, making them nearly unplayable.
Thanks for pointing that out! They did revert again after I updated them, which seemed to help, but I still faced crashes later on and my FPS dropped back to the 20s.