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Laptop fan starts to spin super loud and FPS drops from 100 to 60 ~ 70. Is this a proprietary nvidia driver problem? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by FirmDistribution@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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This problem started to happen recently (maybe 2 ~ 3 months ago).

When I'm playing any game slightly demanding (such as counter strike 2), my laptop will randomly start spinning its fans really fast and loudly and my fps drops from 100 to 70 ~ 60.

This only stops when I restart my laptop.

Does anybody know what might be causing it? This is my pacman -Qe | grep nvidia output:

lib32-nvidia-utils 595.58.03-1
nvidia-hook 1.5-2
nvidia-inst 24-1
nvidia-open 595.58.03-2
nvidia-settings 595.58.03-1

And here's my fastfetch output

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: Nitro AN517-54 (V1.20)
Kernel: Linux 6.19.10-arch1-1
Uptime: 7 mins
Packages: 1401 (pacman), 23 (flatpak)
Shell: zsh 5.9
Display (AUOB39E): 1920x1080 @ 1.25x in 17", 144 Hz [Built-in]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.6.3
WM: KWin (Wayland)
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: Breeze (Light) [Qt], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: breeze [Qt], breeze [GTK2/3/4]
Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
Cursor: breeze (24px)
Terminal: konsole 25.12.3
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400H (12) @ 4.50 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile [Discrete]
GPU 2: Intel UHD Graphics @ 1.45 GHz [Integrated]
Memory: 4.92 GiB / 15.39 GiB (32%)
Swap: 0 B / 16.94 GiB (0%)
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[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

Check if these are installed:
nvidia-open-dkms
lib32-mesa vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon vulkan-nouveau lib32-vulkan-nouveau vulkan-intel lib32-vulkan-intel vulkan-icd-loader lib32-vulkan-icd-loader giflib lib32-giflib libpng lib32-libpng libldap lib32-libldap gnutls lib32-gnutls mpg123 lib32-mpg123 openal lib32-openal v4l-utils lib32-v4l-utils libpulse lib32-libpulse libgpg-error lib32-libgpg-error alsa-plugins lib32-alsa-plugins alsa-lib lib32-alsa-lib libjpeg-turbo lib32-libjpeg-turbo sqlite lib32-sqlite libxcomposite lib32-libxcomposite libxinerama lib32-libgcrypt libgcrypt lib32-libxinerama ncurses lib32-ncurses opencl-icd-loader lib32-opencl-icd-loader libxslt lib32-libxslt libva lib32-libva gtk3 lib32-gtk3 gst-plugins-base-libs lib32-gst-plugins-base-libs vkd3d lib32-vkd3d gamemode lib32-gamemode