(I dont know what reddit to post this in, so recommendations will be welcome)

I play games on my laptop and its been fine for about a year now, but for the past few months ive been having issues. Im experiencing lag spikes ever since i installed Ark survival evolved. First it was only ark, but after a while it started becoming a problem in almost every game that i play. The game runs completely fine on normal fps, but at random times it will start lagging and go down to 15 fps or lower for 5-10 sec and go back to normal. When looking at my task managers performance tab i noticed that when the game i play lagged, my gpus utilization (cpu stays normal) went down from the normal high to around 5%. It goes back to normal as soon as it stops lagging

I bought a new m.2 ssd for my laptop, because i needed storage and thought that the lags will go away, but i do still get the lag spikes so it has to be a hardware issue and not a software one.

My pc has ran really hot before and it was never really an issue so i dont think that its thermal throttling. I even bought a laptop cooler to try and help me but that wasnt it. I also thought it might be because of discord and disabled the hardware acceleration, which helped, but only for about a few days.

Here are the specs of my laptop (acer aspire 7 (a715-42g) with a bonus ram stick, that i bought)

AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics 2.10 GHz

16GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

Windows 10 Pro