Laptop performance help needed

Hello fellow exiles,

long time player here. I started playing poe a long time ago on my old PC back in the day, swapped hardware inbetween the years and after having my kid I had to swap to a Laptop setup, RIP i guess.
It was fine at first, only started to encounter small stutters and freezes in juiced content or groupplay. Since the last 2 years it has gotten so bad to a point where I had to swap to a Virtual Machine from a Cloud Gaming provider.

But even now I encounter problems there due to internet Upload issues, so I wanted to give the local Client on my Laptop another try, but before doing so, I wanted to ask you guys if you have some hidden tech to lower the performance req even more than just with the ingame settings?

Here are my Specs, imo I should pass the minimum req easily and be somewhere in between min and rec specs.

RTX 3060 Mobile GPU (undervolted for better cooling and a bit more perf)
16GB DDR4 RAM
i9 11900H CPU
On a SSD Drive

I was also thinking about giving my whole laptop (if I end up trying the local client again) a hard reset, new windows install, new drivers and everything, and first only the neccessary things for poe.
I swear playing without a trade macro for years sucks lol

Thanks in advance for yall reading and giving any help, may the next shwing be ur Mirror.

To offer meaningful advice, we would really need to see a screenshot of the in-game suite of performance metrics taken while experiencing the problem.

https://www.poecommunity.help/information/in-game-metrics

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The first thing I would say is to remember to keep your laptop plugged in - unlike MacBooks, Windows-based laptops automatically and immediately throttle system performance once they begin running on battery. You will need to be plugged into the wall to avoid this.

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You say you have undervolted a component to improve performance. This can happen in rare situations. Typically we associate undervolting with lower clock speeds (less performance), and overvolting with higher clock speeds (more performance). It is a relatively limited number of potential circumstances in which the device is so thermally constrained that focusing on lowering its heat output can improve performance. It tends to be significantly less likely than what people assume.

If you say your GPU is undervolted and your performance when gaming is disappointing, I would be inclined to reconsider the undervolting. It is very likely to be exacerbating the problem.

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To answer your question - it used to be possible to directly alter the client's configuration file to set specific options to lower values than are exposed through the client. A few years back GGG began clamping down on that and had the game client begin disregarding the artificially low values as they made the game look very significantly worse for minimal frame rate increases.

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I am not sure how effective a windows reinstall is likely to be. If you think that might help, you can perform a Clean Boot to run the game with only minimal software running in the background.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows-da2f9573-6eec-00ad-2f8a-a97a1807f3dd

I should have mentioned I removed the Battery from my Laptop due to overheating problems otherwise. So my Laptop is always Plugged in.

When I said I undervolted my GPU for some extra performance I meant that I undervolted it just a tat (Adjustments others recommended on the GPU model) so it wouldnt overheat easily, which it normally did with some powerhungry games.

In regards of a clean Windows install I thought it would be a good try since the last clean install has been quite a few years and I dont want to imagine what unneccessary und wastefull files I got.

Sadly I cant give proper performance metrics due to still playing on my VM. I didnt want to try the fresh install of everything before I had some headups possibly.