Windows 10: Valorant Sudden FPS Drop

Hello! The problem is my laptop meets the minimum requirements to play valorant. AMD Ryzen 3, AMD Vega 3 Graphics, 8GB RAM. 500GB SSD. And I have tried all the optimization settings for valorant. I downloaded fps boost packs and minimum graphics. Valorant is set to high priority. Nothing runs in background besides valorant. Clean install valorant. Now I'm thinking to reset my enitre laptop to fix. Note: I don't think that's its the problem but my laptop stays on top of a shoe box even while gaming so meet head level. Does this makes the CPU and GPU hot? Please help me, Thank You!

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Sudden FPS drops in Valorant

Hey Pop. I'm Greg, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, here to help you.

Try these fixes for known issue of FPS drops in Valorant:

https://techcult.com/how-to-fix-valorant-fps-dr...

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-fix-valor...

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https://www.technewstoday.com/valorant-low-fps-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantTechSupport/co...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantTechSupport/co...



Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the results you post back I may have other suggestions if necessary.

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Sudden FPS drops in Valorant

This happens with other heavy games too. So it may not be a Valorant issue but a heat issue like you suggested. Do you have any suggestions for how I can prevent my laptop from overheating and hurting the performance?

 

Sudden FPS drop/Stutter

Since 2 days ago, I just turned on my Computer, and it starting having issues while I was playing Witcher 3 (starts with decent fpsm and then very low fps, dropping to 35, then 20, and stopping at 12 or so, in a matter of seconds, in a matter of 1min of starting the game), also stuttering without any high demanding programs, randomly. I was playing at 45-60 fps, without any stutters or sudden fps drop. Have tried other games the issue persists. Even setup everything to low settings.
I have ran several tests with several tools, all seems normal, no sudden memory spikes, or temperature raising out of the ordinary, nothing that would indicate such an fps drop or stuttering.

MSI Afterburner

I also did the reset option on Windows10, completly cleaned out all my personal info from the windows partition.
So at this point, I am not sure if it is a software issue or a hardware issue.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Edit: I kept doing some tests to find out the issue. And this happened before and I was able to replicate it. Same thing happened as before, till I set it up to fullscreen, Alt+Tab from the game and then back to the game, FPS went up to 50 again, stable and good, dropped after a couple of seconds. After a bit it went to 2-5 fps, and I had to shutdown the game, because even the sound was getting messed up.

MSI Afterburner 2

In this image those ups and downs in the GPU usage are when the fps dropped really hard and the sound got messed up.