Frame rate drops out of nowhere when playing games [PLEASE HELP!]

MrBagelk wrote:

Hey there,

So I recently saved up enough money to purchase a new mac laptop, I'll write down my specs shortly. I used bootcamp to install windows 10 as opposed to running mac (more or less personal preference). So I downloaded steam and downloaded two games, Star Wars the Old Republic (a game that's a decade old) and The Division (first one). After a whole week of solid gameplay (No I didn't try to hammer my mac by having the highest graphics settings) the computer ran smoothely, however moving onto the third week of owning this laptop my framerate suddenly drops every minute to below 14, back to 40, back to 14, so on and so forth. It's getting a bit annoying an interrupting my gameplay. I've only used up around 300gb's of my 1tb storage so I don't think that's the primary issue, or is it?

My laptop specs:

Apple Macbook Pro 15.4" 2018

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-8950HK CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz

Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.9 GB usable)

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Storage 1 Terabyte

Radeon 560X

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Maybe you have other apps which are slowing down the laptop. Uninstall any anti-virus apps, cleaning apps, and third party security software as they are not needed on a Mac and usually causes more problems than they solve plus they impact system performance. Follow the developer's instructions to uninstall these types of apps.

To look for possible software issues you can also run EtreCheck and post the report here using the "Additional Text" icon which looks like a piece of paper. Anything listed within the report under Launch Agents/Daemons, Extensions, Login Items will be running much of the time and can easily slow down the Mac especially when gaming.

Also make sure your laptop meets or exceeds the "Recommended System Requirements" or you will experience poor performance. While most games try to guess at the settings based on system resources sometimes these guesses are not aggressive enough. Turn off VSync and turn off shadows and anti-aliasing. Then maybe lower the resolution.

Disconnect all unnecessary external devices not needed to play the game in case they are causing a problem.