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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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[–] riskable@programming.dev 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like normal thermal throttling. Give your cooling fins a blast with compressed air. That's more likely to help than anything you can do in software.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 3 months ago

This only stops when I restart my laptop.

Assuming that OP tried stopping the game (which, to be fair, he didn't explicitly say that he did), that doesn't sound normal.