I've ordered a cooling pad, so hopefully that will help. I will try underclocking the CPU and see if that works. Thank you! Did you get a hardware error in your reliability log when the games would crash? Update = Resolved-After completing troubleshooting, a DELL-Cares agent setup a part replacement.
I was playing Witcher 3 yesterday and suddenly got serious lag, like to the point where it was unplayable. Uninstalled and reinstalled game, updated Alienware Bios and drivers, as well as uninstalled the latest Windows update since I read that could be an issue.  Tried playing another game, XCOM 2, worked fine. Figured it was Witcher 3, until I tried playing Assassins Creed Odyssey, I can only get approximately 5 minutes of play time before the game crashes. My CPU when I'm doing normal tasks is running at 51-70C, the second the games in question are launched it jumps to 100C. NVDIA GPU is running normally. Right now I feel like I wasted my money since I suddenly can't use the laptop for what I purchased it for. Any suggestions welcome.
m17 R4, games constantly crashing all of a sudden