Hey guys!
I have a 13 12th gen and I’ve noticed the preformance has dived recently, I’ve cheched and the cpu goes full throttle while running browser games it used to have no problem with. I also checked and the ghz sits at around 2.04 when running such games, I have no clue why it is running like this. Also the battery is suddenly much weaker (used to be 8 hour prediction last week, now its 4 on full charge). Any advice?
Edit: I’m also using windows 11
So many things can cause performance problems. Here’s some basics to check.
Is your Windows running 24H2? Run Windows update and install all updates and optional updates.
Are you running third party antivirus (security suite)? If so, I suggest removing it and allowing Windows built in Security app to protect you. it’s all you need in most use cases.
Go to a command prompt (administrator) and run the following command to make sure your Windows 11 and the built in apps are up to date.
“winget upgrade --all”
Go to Windows Task manager and try to identify what processes are hammering your CPU, disk and RAM.
Check free disk space and make sure at least 5-10% of your SSD is free and available.
Go to command prompt (Administrator) and run the following command:
“sfc /scannow”
Hopefully one of the above will help to identify your issue(s). FYI, asking for 8 hours of battery life on a 12th Gen Intel, in most cases, is a stretch. 8 hours isn’t impossible, it’s just not typical. Usually 5-6 hours is what you should expect.
I will try what you suggested, hopefully it works. I also got the battery upgrade a month or so back and I was just saying that’s what windows usually estimates, now the estimates are much lower so it must know something I don’t lol. As far as task manager is concerned my cpu runs at 20% usage while running chrome and such things, then if I run a game it just skyrockets from there. I don’t use any antivirus except windows defender and I did a virus check through some Microsoft tool.
Gotcha.
Also make sure you have latest motherboard BIOS as well as current Framework driver package. This URL
BTW, is your laptop charging to 100% or do you have the charge limiter set in BIOS?
Do you know how to use Task manager? I would suggest when your system is acting like it is taxed again, that you open task manager, and sort by CPU usage. This will tell you what programs and services are utilizing the system. If your CPU is pegged at 20% just with your browser open, you should look then too. If it is all Chrome, then the question becomes how many tabs do you have open, do you have hardware acceleration enabled, etc.
There are SOOOO many things that could be causing this, but I think trying to narrow it down to processes is one way to focus in on it the fastest.
I have minimal tabs open, I just checked and in task manager there’s not a lot of explanation for what is taking up about 14% of that usage. I’ll check more later