Laptop losing framerate periodically

[AngryMerchant]

Played AC Brotherhood for a while, and forgot the browser was open. GPU was at 70 degrees at that point, so I closed the browser and tested Saints Row 3. Worse than ever, nearly unplayable framerate drops every couple seconds.

Was in a hurry, so here's a paint picture within a paint picture.

 

[OneMoar]

Played AC Brotherhood for a while, and forgot the browser was open. GPU was at 70 degrees at that point, so I closed the browser and tested Saints Row 3. Worse than ever, nearly unplayable framerate drops every couple seconds.

Was in a hurry, so here's a paint picture within a paint picture.

whats gpu z for max/corespeed/voltage under load should be 670C/1334S/900M under full load

 

[OneMoar]

derpmoment:
didn't see that this was a Nvidia optimus capable gpu
update the drivers for the intel GPU see if that makes it behave
if that doesn't work disable Nvidia optimus > open the nv cp >program settings > add a entry for the game > select gpu from drop down ...
must be trying to switch between the 2 mid game ... known issue

 

[AngryMerchant]

Haven't updated the Intel video yet.

I've had the global and game-specific settings set to Nvidia all the time.

 

[AngryMerchant]

I'm hearing something about Power4Gear, the power/ battery management program Asus laptops use. Some people are saying it was underclocking their system or causing issues even when set to High Performance, and changing the settings or uninstalling it was helpful. I figure it's safe enough to try, and can just be redownloaded from the Asus site anyway.

 

[AngryMerchant]

Still saw it happen in Assassin's Creed II. But not in Brotherhood.
ACII goes through Steam, Brotherhood doesn't. I'm reinstalling Saints Row 3, so can't test that yet. I don't think it will be improved.

I finally did the BIOS, everything went fine, msinfo says the version number is 320, and still nothing. No improvement. All I haven't tried is the Intel video update, and I don't see how that would help.

This is all made worse by that everything ran fine for a week before this suddenly happened, and it's worse than ever.