CPU Bottleneck / Overheating

[edyzmedieval]

Everything updated, drivers & all. Including Intel drivers. I made sure all is up to speed.

So... might be RAM. And SSHD. SSHD is quite annoying since it's a hybrid.

[Husar]

I have an SSHD, it does not cause choppiness, certainly not in games that load the entire level or battlefield before you can play.
Do what Xiahou said and also check the VRAM usage.
What graphics settings do you use anyway? I read that even 6GB VRAM can be insufficient in CoD WW2 depending on your setting and the scene.

[edyzmedieval]

VRAM usage is at half - literally uses 2 GB out of 4.

Usually choppiness happens after like 30-45 mins of gameplay, so overheating can be a problem? But it never goes over 80C.

[Gregoshi]

Since it is a laptop, could it be Power Management?

[Xiahou]

Maybe check Event Viewer to see if there's any clues (errors) to a problem there?

[edyzmedieval]

I actually switched the power usage to max power, so it doesn't change anything when it's on charge. Event Viewer showed me nothing.

Two things I noticed - Hard Disk is very often over 40-50% usage and whenever CoD is on - 100% + RAM is at 80%, using 4 GB.

This is what I found weird. Double checked - it has 8 GB, but it uses 80% and it's at almost 4 GB.

[Xiahou]

Ok, so that sounds like your system RAM is shared with your GPU. IIRC, this is pretty common on laptops.

Now it does sound like a lack of RAM. All of the hard drive activity is probably indicative of swapping- RAM contents writing itself out to disk to make room for more data. Swapping kills performance.

If it's an option, you might want to see if you can go into the BIOS and cut back on how much is allocated to the GPU, since it only seems to be using about 2Gbs. That might be a short-term workaround. Long term, get more RAM.

[Csargo]

Is it using his hard-drive as virtual memory? That seems weird if your RAM isn't being fully utilized.