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%)
Likely some software issue. You could try downgrading or upgrading your drivers… upgrade the laptop’s firmware… Next guess is a hardware issue. I had fans fail. Or have a lot of dust accumulate inside of a laptop. Anyway, the two issues will be connected. Once the GPU gets too warm, it’ll spin up the fans and then start to throttle. So both issues are due to the same thing.