Windows throttles, lags, and the cpu goes up to 100% after some time when playing games
Windows 10 and 11 throttles and slows down EXTREMELY after playing a heavy game for a while.
I found a fix and wanted to share the solution.
Here is what to do:
Use throttlestop and disable BD PROCHOT
For me, windows doesnt know how to throttle my cpu properly and instead makes it go SUPER slow to the point that the windows itself starts lagging.
Then UPDATE YOUR GPU DRIVERS!!1
For some reason though, my nvidia gpu could only get the newest update using the lenovo vantage app since my laptop is a lenovo. SO perhaps try your manufactures app.
Now do a reboot and hopefully things should be well.
By the way, this issue only happens for me in windows, linux works fine!
Hope this helps someone, not sure if piefed could be crawled by search engines or not.
Interesting. The only slowdowns I get are because of using multiple monitors on Windows. It's "Game mode" frequently completely and utterly fails to figure out that the game I'm running is in fact a game and shouldn't be throttled while "a game is running" simply because Windows is still rendering other content, too.
Absolute trash company producing trash that I could never find a fix for. I wonder if Throttlestop would stop the multi-monitor gaming throttle issue, but sadly I don't remember an exact title that reliably hit the slowdown so I cannot test.
In either case, I am soon to migrate to Linux, because FUCK microslop clowns and their ineptitude. I don't need it for gaming any more and am already familiar with Linux, so double-FUCK microslop.
Similar thing happens to me. when switching monitors for the game. It start rendering super slow.
I use linux. But prefer to keep games in a seperate os and partiton. Since I try alot of itch.io games, I dont want my personal data to be gone. So simply. I make use of the dualboot setup.
maybe doing the same for you would be useful.
windows for personal stuff. And linux for all kinds of experiments.
dont forget to make backups of your data. (please, this is a must)
Oh absolutely core settings need to be preserved. Though that doesn't change that it's hardware 101: It's in the hands of the OS/program interpreters. Not anyone else.