Dell g15 unbelievably slow

Question

I play mostly AAA titles, such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and CyberPunk 2077, and when I got this laptop about 3 months ago, it played those games flawlessly. But now whenever I play the games, it will run for 60-70 FPS on my settings but after about 5 minutes, it will permanently run at about 15-25 FPS. I have double checked my settings to make sure nothing is wrong and nothing is wrong. I end up scrolling through power management settings and cannot find a solution. I tried updating everything to the latest firmware, does not work. So I am just trying to find a solution and I hope you can supply me with one.

crimsom · Answer

Hi @Broderick27 when running modern graphic intensive games the (C:) boot drive needs plenty of empty storage space to open and close all the temporary files. When the (C:) boot drive has insufficient free space, graphic intensive games will start with high fps but this will quickly drop to low fps when there are many temporary files that cannot be created and deleted fast enough. The (C:) boot drive should be ultrafast GPT format with UEFI enabled boot list option and have a large free storage capacity. Have a look at the contents of the (C:) boot drive to determine which files can be moved and stored on the Data drive.

Please share the Dell G15 version and its (C:) boot drive read/write speed and storage capacity. Are there two or more slots for Data drives? Is the operating system Windows 10 x64 or Windows 11. Thank you.

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Dell g15 unbelievably slow