Hey guys, I recently upgraded from a Rog Strix G713 to a Scar 18 with a 5080. Everything typically runs great, but part of the reasons I went to a laptop like this with 64GB of ram (aside from gaming and the usual) was for programming and modding.
When I first started using this device I noticed it does this weird hitch thing when exiting games. I can't figure out what actually does this, but I'm assuming it has something to do with the games I'm running and switching back to the desktop? When I start a game, if it happens, it happens so fast I don't seem to notice. Everything runs fine, then when I exit it will hard freeze (can't even move the mouse) for about a second, and continue as normal. Any idea what is happening behind the scenes to cause this? I assume it's switching GPUs, but I'm unsure.
My second issue is, I'm currently modding Starfield and changing reticle position forces me to exit and enter the game multiple times over because it has no way to preview the FPS ADS view from the creationkit. When starting the game while CK is running, I get hard stutters about every 3 seconds. I would chock this up to having CK open (even though I'm doing minimal editing) while Starfield is running, but I didn't have this issue with the 3060m at all, so it's bizarre I would have it on the 5080.
Adding to this issue, I was playing Elden Ring Nightreign the other day, and switched to Dragon's Dogma 2 later on. Dragon's Dogma 2 had this exact same stuttering issue every 3 seconds as I'm getting with Starfield while CK is running. The DD2 situation is especially weird because nothing else was running, which makes me think that maybe Armoury Crate, or some other ASUS software is either not switching the GPU correctly, or some other ASUS software is at play causing the issues. Restarting the Laptop returns everything to normal. Any thoughts?
[EDIT]
I came back to post that, in my Laptop's current state without restart, Elden Ring and ER Nightreign don't have this issue. However, Starfield, every single UE5 engine game, and every single RE Engine game have this problem. (Tested DD2, RE4, MHW)
I can't stop the stuttering without restarting, but the stuttering is happening across all of those games at almost the exact same interval.
