Laptop slowed down, GPU usage near 100% when using desktop apps - no graphics.

[ub6424]

Hello @Spotspot 

You should go to a notebook store and look at different brands and models and "test" them with your own hands and then make a decision. It should not be the cheapest or most expensive notebook !

Kind regards

[Spotspot]

Good news. Not completely good but better than before.

Windows did some big update a month or two ago.

This update left my laptop seeming to be completely fixed.

After a few weeks I decided to comment here, but then it went back to old habits.

Now it is fine most of the time but can suddenly get the go-slows.

When it does I either shutdown and power on (no reboot) or dual boot into ubuntu.

This means my laptop is mostly usable but very annoying every once in a while.

Ubuntu doesn't seem to have the same problem. I have installed it with generic graphics drivers (not the manufacturer ones) and it seems to have problems sometimes after coming out of standby but goes indefinitely long after power up.
The dual boot is a standard setup, however there is no setting in the UEFI(bios) that will boot without user intervention every time ?!?!? - so I have installed grub2win and that works like you would expect, giving a boot menu with a timed default boot option.

[ub6424]

Hello @Spotspot 

(1) Set "maximum processor percentage" in Windows to 98%

--->>> How to show or hide Minimum and Maximum Processor State in Power Options in Windows 11/10

(2) Restart Windows

(3) Download and install and run

Popular HWiNFO Diagnostic Sofware

--->>> Send a screenshot showing the CPU and GPU temperature:

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(4) Please report back