Hello!
I am picking up where I left off last year, and I'm hoping to increase and better stabilize my FPS. I have 288 mods installed, and after trying several other workarounds, I'm chalking up the FPS issues to the number of mods.
Are there any more efficient methods than creating backups and manually disabling mods one-by-one to see if they affect my save file?
Hello! I have a G15, about 5ish years old, that I bought new. It's my first gaming laptop and the first Windows computer that I have personally owned.
When I first got it, I knew far less about maintenance or things to avoid, so I definitely could have taken better care of it for the first couple of years. This mostly amounted to not using it on a hard surface and playing on surfaces like lap pillows or cushions. I did use Armoury Crate to monitor CPU/GPU temperatures and kind of knew what thresholds I should be monitoring.
Within the first year, I noticed how hot the laptop would get (no surprise in hindsight!) and sent it in to exercise the warranty before it was too late. I've had it elevated and on top of a cooling fan for the last 2.5-3 years, and have learned more about PCs over that time.
It has always run hot, but only had a pattern of crashing for games like Cyberpunk. Recently, I reinstalled Cyberpunk, and I’m having a hard time getting consistent performance with pretty moderate settings (definitely no ray/path tracing, utilizing DLSS/frame gen, low crowd density, and everything else at medium or lower).
I cleaned the fans yesterday and have done so periodically over the years, but I've never removed the heat sink, replaced thermal paste, or anything else. I've never built a computer or taken one apart more than removing this laptop’s chassis and cleaning the fans.
I also stress-tested it yesterday after cleaning the fans in Prime95, Furmark, and OCCT. It was my first time using OCCT, so I apologize if I didn’t capture all the relevant info (results & pics included).
Prime95 (HWiNFO64 temps): CPU maxed at 95.2 C (forgot to grab avg, probably 2-4 below)
Furmark (HWiNFO64 temps): GPU maxed at 89.2 C, averaged at 86.5 C.
**Hot Spot**: Maxed at 97.6 C, averaged at 94.4 C.
OCCT (HWiNFO64 temps): See included images for details, please.
**Memory**: Maxed at 93.9 C, averaged at 86.3 C.
**CPU + RAM**: Maxed at 94.9 C, averaged at 94.4 C.
3D Adaptive: GPU maxed at 87.1 C, averaged at 86.2 C. CPU maxed at 93.6 C, averaged at 83.4 C.
**Linpack**: Maxed at 94.9 C, averaged at 94.3 C.
**CPU**: Maxed at 94.8 C, averaged at 94.0 C.
Laptop specs:
TLDR: I have a 5-year-old G15 that’s running hot, and I’m curious what I can do to potentially cool it down more than what I’ve already done (external cooling fan, cleaning the fans, lowering game settings, etc.)
Hello!
I am just starting to play some of the games in my backlog again after a hiatus, and see that Playnite Achievements is now offered and seems to be preferred by many.
SuccessStory wasn't working for the last few games I played in Playnite in late 2025/early 2026, and I just said whatever and didn't have any achievements pop for those 2-3 games.
My two main questions are:
Is there a way to retroactively have those achievements pop in some way (SS or PA)?
Will my achievement progress get messed up on games I collected achievements in SuccessStory and want to continue/finish now?
I appreciate any input/advice, thank you!
Hello all! I pulled for Aviete the other day and got her finally after 130 pulls. I am sitting at a little over 25k rubies, and for 200 guide fragments, the only character I saw maybe worth grabbing was Xerc. But I don’t have most of the characters to make that rainbow meta team really shine.
What do you all think I should do? I have spent like $5 at most on the game so I consider myself F2P. I usually snag 1 copy of a new character I want, then go back to saving rubies. Happy to answer any other questions. Thank you!