Is there a way to fix lag without spending money on upgrades? Laptop is an MSI GE63 Raider.

It has the Intel Core i7 9750H processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card and 32 gb of memory and I've been getting a decent amount of lag. When I first bought the laptop it ran fine without any lag but has recently started. Beam is the only thing other than Steam I have installed on it.

 

It many Ben the 32gb of memory, I really don’t know:/.

 

Thermal throttling? Check the temperatures with something like HWMonitor

 

Temp stays around 40°C

 

Clean out the dust from the vents and buy a cooling pad. If that doesn't work, take it apart and reapply thermal paste/do a deeper clean.

 

Well i have nearly the same laptop.
Intel security patches are the problem!
There is one tool to deactivate Spectre/Meltdown, but with each windows update our Intel CPU gets slower and slower.
Lag is getting more and more.

Thats why i prefer AMD now over Intel.
Next Laptop will be a ryzen cpu.