So brought my laptop over to a friends house last weekend and since then it has been running really REALLY poorly. Before I could get 100-120 fps on Smite with max settings, but now it is at 20-30 fps at max settings. Lowering the settings doesn't even change the fps. My computer is very good and very new, so I hope I wont have to buy a new one. Any ideas on what could be happening?
Also, it's not just fps that is acting weird, my connection is much slower than before and I am hardwired to my router so I'm really confused.
I'm not entirely sure. I would have to actually look at it myself, though, that's because I'm not an expert.
However, I will say that I'm pretty positive this is not an issue that you'd have to buy a new one or anything. Worst comes to worst, you might have to do a clean wipe of your hard drive and reinstall your OS, which isn't that bad, anyway. I try to wipe my hard drive clean every once in a while just to flush out a bunch of junk.
I know this is obvious, but have you tried rebooting your computer?
And also, yeah, I had a problem exactly like this once, so I did a complete factory reset and now it works fine. But before you go doing that, I suggest you run a full virus scan.
You could also try right-clicking your desktop and going to Graphics Properties (or Graphics Options, I don't know what it will be for your OS, I have Windows 8) and seeing if anything is wrong there. Also, check your power plan. I had mine set to "Low Performance" once and didn't realize it. Low performance extends battery life but makes things run poorly, whilst high performance decreases battery life but makes things run better. You can check this by clicking the battery icon on the lower right corner, usually next to time/date (again I don't know what your OS is so this may be different).
You could also try running a disk defragmenter, although I forgot how to actually do that so you'd need to google it.
I know this is obvious, but have you tried rebooting your computer?
And also, yeah, I had a problem exactly like this once, so I did a complete factory reset and now it works fine. But before you go doing that, I suggest you run a full virus scan.
You could also try right-clicking your desktop and going to Graphics Properties (or Graphics Options, I don't know what it will be for your OS, I have Windows 8) and seeing if anything is wrong there. Also, check your power plan. I had mine set to "Low Performance" once and didn't realize it. Low performance extends battery life but makes things run poorly, whilst high performance decreases battery life but makes things run better. You can check this by clicking the battery icon on the lower right corner, usually next to time/date (again I don't know what your OS is so this may be different).
You could also try running a disk defragmenter, although I forgot how to actually do that so you'd need to google it.
I tried seeing if my power settings were off, because I remeberd having them pop up a while ago. I changed it to high performance and it seems to be back to normal! Thanks a bunch!
I did notice that I am not achieving the fps I had before my computer got wonky. It is still a big improvement. Also the performance did not affect the connection.
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