Question Laptop CPU Throttling when playing Oblivion Remastered.

[Hemispheres]

Hey guys, I have found that after playing Oblivion remastered for an extended period (60-90 minutes) the FPS will drop off from 100+ down to 30ish. Seeing as how my CPU reaches the high 90s in temps I'm suspecting the my CPU is thermal throttling. Problem is I've only had this laptop since last March. It is out of warranty and I'm thinking its either full of dust or needs new thermal paste. I have thermal grizzy kryonaut but read it doesn't like temps above 80c.

Any idea of on what the problem could be and the best thermal paste for cooling the cpu down would be?

Specs are:
ASUS Tuf Gaming F15 2023 model.
12700h CPU
RTX 4070 GPU
32GB RAM
2TB SSD

 

[LordVile]

Hey guys, I have found that after playing Oblivion remastered for an extended period (60-90 minutes) the FPS will drop off from 100+ down to 30ish. Seeing as how my CPU reaches the high 90s in temps I'm suspecting the my CPU is thermal throttling. Problem is I've only had this laptop since last March. It is out of warranty and I'm thinking its either full of dust or needs new thermal paste. I have thermal grizzy kryonaut but read it doesn't like temps above 80c.

Any idea of on what the problem could be and the best thermal paste for cooling the cpu down would be?

Specs are:
ASUS Tuf Gaming F15 2023 model.
12700h CPU
RTX 4070 GPU
32GB RAM
2TB SSD

Probably just needs cleaning. You could try and undervolt it if the laptop allows.

 

[Lutfij]

It is out of warranty and I'm thinking its either full of dust or needs new thermal paste.
Disassembling the laptop for a closer/better look would be your first order of business. If you see the cooling vents clogged with dust/debris, a clean up would do wonders(to an extent).

This might be worth a read;

https://www.reddit.com/r/DellXPS/comments/w7vur7/xps_9520_i712700h_repasting_is_necessary/

You could also try and perform an undervolt on your GPU, to help dump less heat into the cooling solution on your laptop.

 

[CelicaGT]

Oblivion Remastered hammers the CPU hard. My desktop rig sees all 8 cores running between 50 to 99% utilization, haven't played it on the laptop yet (13900HX) but thermal throttling is likely. Consider however that there is virtually no gaming laptop where CPU throttling is not the norm, how much depends on the thermal solution capacity and the default fan profiles. For games like this that are very CPU heavy throttling is expected although your performance drop seems rather drastic, consider running some monitoring software in the background to watch things like CPU (per core) utilization, clock speed and temps, GPU utilization, clock speed and temps. This will give you a clearer picture of what is going on. Temps in the 90's for laptop components are pretty normal but if it's maintaining that by throttling in lieu of ramping up the fan this is the way to find out.

Also to be clear a repast typically only drops temps a few degrees, and variations between paste types are less than 5%. New/better thermal paste is not a silver bullet for thermal throttling. The typical issues are dirty fans, heatsinks, or conservative fan curves. So, consider giving it a good clean before tearing it right apart for a repaste.

 

[Hemispheres]

I just fired it up after giving it a 16 hours off. Is it normal for the west weald to be cpu/gpu intensive? I'm seeing 30ish fps right out the gate. Otherwise I'm running the game at 2k high settings. I also notice oblivion gates (exiting) effect my fps.

 

[Hemispheres]

As per another forum I limited FPS to 60 and it helped quite a bit, albeit not a full 90 minutes. Time will tell.

 

[JayGau]

Oblivion Remastered hammers the CPU hard. My desktop rig sees all 8 cores running between 50 to 99% utilization, haven't played it on the laptop yet (13900HX) but thermal throttling is likely. Consider however that there is virtually no gaming laptop where CPU throttling is not the norm, how much depends on the thermal solution capacity and the default fan profiles. For games like this that are very CPU heavy throttling is expected although your performance drop seems rather drastic, consider running some monitoring software in the background to watch things like CPU (per core) utilization, clock speed and temps, GPU utilization, clock speed and temps. This will give you a clearer picture of what is going on. Temps in the 90's for laptop components are pretty normal but if it's maintaining that by throttling in lieu of ramping up the fan this is the way to find out.

Also to be clear a repast typically only drops temps a few degrees, and variations between paste types are less than 5%. New/better thermal paste is not a silver bullet for thermal throttling. The typical issues are dirty fans, heatsinks, or conservative fan curves. So, consider giving it a good clean before tearing it right apart for a repaste.

50-99% on all 8 cores? What is your CPU? Mine barely reaches 30% and is most often at 20-25% on this game. It's less CPU taxing than other moderately CPU bound games like Cyberpunk and Black Ops 6. And I use software Lumens, which is even harder on the CPU. And my temp barely goes above 50°c. I'm not saying he doesn't have a thermal throttling issue, but Oblivion Remaster is not that hard on the CPU as compared to other games.

 

[CelicaGT]

50-99% on all 8 cores? What is your CPU? Mine barely reaches 30% and is most often at 20-25% on this game. It's less CPU taxing than other moderately CPU bound games like Cyberpunk and Black Ops 6. And I use software Lumens, which is even harder on the CPU. And my temp barely goes above 50°c. I'm not saying he doesn't have a thermal throttling issue, but Oblivion Remaster is not that hard on the CPU as compared to other games.

5800X3D, 8 cores 16 threads. Consider I am relating PER CORE, not ALL CORE. Temps are good, performance is awesome. It's UE5 after all, which is well known to smack cores hard, even after shaders are compiled. And OP is a laptop which at best may hit 75% of what a desktop can do.

(FWIW rigs are in sig, consider reading and posting the same to reduce confusion)

 

[JayGau]

5800X3D, 8 cores 16 threads. Consider I am relating PER CORE, not ALL CORE. Temps are good, performance is awesome. It's UE5 after all, which is well known to smack cores hard, even after shaders are compiled. And OP is a laptop which at best may hit 75% of what a desktop can do.

(FWIW rigs are in sig, consider reading and posting the same to reduce confusion)

My desktop rig sees all 8 cores running between 50 to 99% utilization

You clearly wrote "all 8 cores running between 50 to 99%". If you get that on this game with a 5800X3D you have a problem.

By the way I mostly come on this forum on my phone (I generally have other things to do when I am on my desktop) and the sigs are not visible on the mobile version. It's why I asked about your CPU. Mine is a 9800X3D and as I said, Oblivion Remaster is not more taxing on it than any other similar games.