spitz20 wrote:
I've had major issues with this laptop and the GPU. Is so unstable, fps drops, gpu throttling. I have made several youtube video's showing my issues. My laptop was even returned to HIDevolution (who I bought it from). Asus sent them a new MOBO and they installed it and sent it back to me....Guess what, the issue's continue. I have an un-released bios (3.06) that helped dampen the issues slightly but they still continue.......now my GPU throttles then my gpu clock suffers greatly but actually stays steady around 1300mhz allowing me to play at a gimped rate. Flashing back to 3.04 causing major constant fps up/down so that's not a fix. Maybe there is a 3.07 or 3.08 thats unreleased????? We need a fix. I paid $2800 CAD for this laptop (with upgrades/liquid metal repaste etc).

i7-8750H
GTX 1060 6GB
16gb dual channel ram
Samsung evo m.2 500gb
1tb HDD
144hz screen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FuAIU8ib1Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGaTpxU6E7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocoK-Bjj5Wo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAXHxtfQQWY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61aMd5bQOAw

Enjoy

have you tried undervolting the CPU? i've gone from lag city (like steady 80~ fps to 22 fps per 10 seconds to almost none) with just making sure the CPU not throttling like nuts. Also, did you get the Crash Dump Issue? https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?106137-GL504GS-Nahimic-Service-(audio-drivers)-and-clipboa... < that one also killed a lot of the smoothness in game, although after nuking the services, i now have intermittently no audio, needing a restart to fix that.

also, for The Witcher, i find that playing with RTSS will deliver smoother play experience ( https://www.pcgamer.com/durantes-witcher-3-analysis-the-alchemy-of-smoothness/ )