For context; I play Destiny 2 on a gaming laptop with a GeForce GTX 1650, an Intel Core i5, and 8GB of RAM. Windows 10 is installed and up to date, as are my graphics drivers. The game is installed on an SSD for faster run times. Up until now, this setup has been adequate at running the game smoothly at an average of 50-60 fps (sometimes drops lower If I've been playing a while and there's a lot going on on-screen, but otherwise the framerate is very stable). Starting last Saturday, I began experiencing framerate drops in the game; everything would be running smoothly, then for a fraction of a second the game would freeze for a moment and I'd see via the framerate monitor that the frames had dipped and then shot back up again. Relaunching the game did not fix the issue. Neither did: • Closing other programs such as my web browser while the game is running and ending them via Task Manager. • Turning off Xbox Game Bar and turning off background recording settings. • Fully restarting my PC and updating my graphics drivers to the latest version. • Verifying game file integrity via Steam. • Lowering recommended graphics settings such as render resolution, vsync, texture and shadow quality, etc. These frame skips are happening everywhere in the game (character select, scrolling through menus, being in orbit, running around the tower, interacting with vendors, during PvE and PvP, etc.), but they seem most severe when particle effects are happening in the same instance I'm in (I don't even have to see it on screen - a hunter popping silence and squall on the other side of a PvP map basically freezes my whole screen for a good second). They have steadily been getting worse over the weekend and are now at the point where the game is becoming unplayable in multiple scenarios because my display is simply freezing up and stuttering while stuff is still happening in the game world. I'm stumped as to why my PC, which has been running Destiny 2 fine up until now, is suddenly struggling to maintain a consistent framerate, and given all the methods I've tried to fix it, I'm not sure if the stability issue is something on my end.