Windows 10: Significant FPS drops in games since last week.

I have a laptop running Win 11 for a year. I have been using it for occasional gaming without any problems, the performance was always decent and very stable when plugged in. Since last week I have been getting significant FPS drops. The same games that used to run with 50-60 fps are running with 5-25. The specs are: 16Gb RAM, intel i5 11th gen, iris xe integrated graphics and an nvidia geforce MX450 and 1TB SSD. So safe to say, there is a very noticable issue with performace. I haven't changed anything that could explain this, I even tried updating the drivers for the cards with no luck. I

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FPS drop in games

yes the issue did get resolved in a week or two with an update but this time it has been like two months. I didn't find anything on lenovo forums but there are a lot of people on microsoft forums with same issue. I monitored games on msi afterburner and the memory clock drops down from 6000-7000 Mhz to 800-600 Mhz when fps drops and gpu clock gets capped at 900Mhz.

 

Random big fps drops in games

SOLVED IT: I have a cosmetic app to give me a nicer look to my desktop, and apparently it was the source of my closed problem. I closed it and disabled it on startup and I no longer have fps drops.

I have a huge problem, my fps randomly drops to 15-40 fps just out of nowhere. This has been happening for three months now (and I'm posting about this just now lmao) and I still don't know what's going on.

I usually play games that meet my PC specs, but most of them I play on medium settings, and I don't believe that it's graphics or world rendering causing this because the fps drops even if I'm standing still in games, not doing anything and nothing is happening
around me. It can't be the components overheating because their temperatures are going up to 45°C and I just recently cleaned my PC and put a new thermal paste on the CPU. The components aren't old either, I got new CPU, motherboard and RAM card this spring,
and I kept my GPU from last november or december.

At first, when I got new components, there were no fps drops, they started somewhere in august this year.

I searched the whole Internet and didn't find the solution to my problem.

What I tried so far was:

• disabling game DVR,
• turning off game mode,
• reinstalling Windows (twice),
• doing first two again,
• searching for driver updates (my drivers are always up-to-date, I try to update the every week),
• uninstalling some programs I didn't need and which I thought were the issue,
• increasing the speed of RAM.

None of that helped, the fps drops stayed, and I'm here crying in the corner because I don't know what to do, so please help however and how much you can, thanks.

Oh, and my PC specs:

CPU - AMD FX-8350

GPU - AMD RX550

8GB RAM 1833Hz

Motherboard - BIOSTAR A960D+V3