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FPS drops while gaming (M90)
Every time I try to play a graphically intensive game like R6 or Oblivion my FPS goes from 30 to 5 for about 30 seconds every 5 minutes. Doesn't matter which resolution I am playing at...
Has anyone experienced something like this?
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Re: FPS drops while gaming (M90)
Do you have a virus scanner running? Every 5 minutes sounds like a scheduled process that's hitting the resources when the game wants them.
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No, I tried killing all non-essential processes and there was no effect. This only happens in the games i mentioned above...NFS:C, FIFA07, C&C all run fine on max settings.
I'm afraid i'll have to reformat this weekend...
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Maybe the game's resource files (the big packages specially) are too much fragmented, defrag , I hope it'll work.
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tied that too... =((
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What the drivers, specially the suspicious one's ?
Have you tried "Dell Decrapifier" ?
Try the lastest nVidia drivers, if you have Vista,you'll have to wait for a month to get "working" drivers.
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Re: FPS drops while gaming (M90)
actually that sounds like the videocard downclocking because it reached a certain high temp.
you should use RivaTuner to monitor the GPU temps (even in game, there is a on-screen display on the top-left of the fullscreen game)
Check this out:
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Re: FPS drops while gaming (M90)
What the drivers, specially the suspicious one's ?
Have you tried "Dell Decrapifier" ?
Try the lastest nVidia drivers, if you have Vista,you'll have to wait for a month to get "working" drivers.
I have XP and the latest drivers for Quadro FX2500M
What's Dell Decrapifier? Never heard of it
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Re: FPS drops while gaming (M90)
actually that sounds like the videocard downclocking because it reached a certain high temp.
you should use RivaTuner to monitor the GPU temps (even in game, there is a on-screen display on the top-left of the fullscreen game)
Check this out:
Hm...the symptoms seems to match
However, I have Dell fan control and the video card temp stays in the 80-85C range during gaming, even when the slowdown occurs. I'll try to cool down the card to see if it helps.
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I have the exact same thing on my old Dell laptop, I'm going to update the gfx drivers now.