Random FPS drops with OMEN Desktop 40L

[Drawp]

This summer I bought my OMEN desktop 40L . Because of school I didn't had much time to game on it but when I did, I frequently suffered from random fps drops (serious ones). Here I am a bit more than 6 months later... Still the same problem and nothing seems the help. It happens with every game.

I have seen a post from someone who had the exact same problem and he also had the same pc. 

He didn't get any solutions...

Does someone has any solutions ?

Specifications:
Operation system - Windows 11 Home 64-bit
Graphics card - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super
Processor - AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core
RAM - 32GB DDR5

[Bill_To]

Greetings @Drawp 

Welcome to the HP Forum.

This is a tough one because there are so many variables involved.

I think I can safely say it is not your PC's hardware. I'm sure your PC also has a fast M.2, PCIe NVME system drive.

W11 runs a lot of unnecessary processes in the background. How many processes do you see in Task Manager when the PC is idling?

There are ways to greatly reduce W11 running processes. But you have to be careful and recoverable system image backups are required in case something goes wrong when tweaking W11 processes.

Chris Titus created a PowerShell script that debloats W10 and W11. You have to know what you are doing with this script to avoid breaking Windows.

Microsoft has a very small and powerful program called "Autoruns". Again, you have to be careful using this software or you can break Windows.

My W11 PC does between 95 to about 110 processes at idle. I'll bet your PC is pushing, at certain times, well over 150  processes at idle. I've seen W11 PCs running up to 220 processes at idle.

How many Task Manager Startup items? I have 7 startup items.

Microsoft Game Bar, if enabled, may be causing this issue. I uninstall Game Bar using Revo Uninstaller portable (free version).

The new Nvidia App seems to be negatively impacting FPS. Disabling a setting in this App is supposed to help. I'm not sure what setting needs to be tweaked. I don't use the new Nvidia App.

Have you tried using YouTube to check for any fixes?

My PC is similar to yours. I have :

- A Ryzen 7900X

- 32 GBs of G.SKILL RAM at 6000 MT/s

- An Asus Nvidia 4070 Dual OC

Regards

[Bill_To]

Greetings @Drawp 

I'm trying to be as thorough as possible.

Download a synthetic benchmark such as Heaven. Also Download HWiNFO portable.

Run Heaven in windowed mode with HWiNFO running.

Check system performance and component temps in HWiNFO while Heaven is running to see how the PC is doing.

Regards

[Drawp]

I tried deleting the Game Bar and now it feels like my fps drops are more 'stable', they are less severe.
But the fps drops are still frequent. I'm going to try the other options you suggested but I'm having exams right now haha so I need to find the time. But I appreciate your help so much, thanks in advance @Bill_To !

[Drawp]

I ran Unigine Heaven and monitored my components temps but I don't see an issue here. While running Heaven I also didn't had any FPS drops (I was on Ultra settings). So my guess is that it would be a NVIDIA thing. But i don't know what, if you have recommendations on tweaking NVIDIA settings or helpful YouTube videos haha, there very welcome.

[Bill_To]

Greetings @Drawp 

My pleasure.

It would appear the graphics card and CPU are doing well if temps and FPS are good when running Heaven benchmark.

You could have a network problem if FPS is inconsistent while gaming online.

A network problem could be WIFI signal strength, a network bandwidth problem (ISP), or your router's limitations if your playing games over WIFI.

You have recent and very capable PC hardware (MB, CPU, GPU, NIC, and WIFI card). So I would guess the ISP modem/router combo or a network bandwidth/latency issue is to blame.

Regards

[Drawp]

Hey .@Bill_To 
I checked my internet connection and this seems to be not the problem. 
I use cable and tried OMEN software to prioritize the game. Also bandwith/latency issues would be strange because the fps drops happen when I have very low ping and the game (e.g. rocket league) warns you with a symbol when there is a latency related problem.

Still trying to fix it by tweaking NVIDIA settings.

Because I already looked at my backgroundprocesses. There were around 94 on idle.

[Bill_To]

Greetings @Drawp 

That's weird to see Heaven benchmark do well but the PC has an online gaming issue.

Well, I guess it's an Nvidia settings problem.

I wouldn't know what to suggest other than the new Nvidia App setting that seems to be adversely affecting FPS.

Do a search on YouTube for the Nvidia setting that needs to be turned off.

94 running processes at idle on W11 is outstanding.

Regards