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Facebook games on Inspiron 9400

post #1 of 15
1/17/10 at 1:24pm
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Hello,

I was wondering if anyone knew why my Inspiron 9400 runs fine with most games, but has trouble with browser games, such as those on facebook, e.g. farmville or yoville?

The main issue it has with the facebook games, is that alot of the cpu gets used up, which then makes the fans go at top speed and then everything slows down. This doesn't always happen, but when it does, I normally have to restart my laptop.

I installed 'Fear' today, thinking that it would probably not work, but it seems to run fine, without any problems. Although it did crash initially, but after changing it to run on xp compatibility, it has run fine.

I think this issue is more a problem with facebook, rather than my laptop, but though I would see what other people think.

Thanks.
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post #2 of 15
1/17/10 at 2:10pm
Are these like Flash games? Do you have the latest updates? And is say a antivirus going nuts in the background when it happens? Turn of antivirus does it not happen?
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post #3 of 15
1/17/10 at 2:22pm
Tried with different browsers?

cheers ...
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post #4 of 15
1/17/10 at 5:51pm
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I have the latest flash, as I have recentlly installed Windows 7 and installed the latest files, so that shouldn't be the problem.

I just find it strange that my laptop can cope with a game running of a disk, but can't handle a browser game.

No problems with the anti-virus, although my laptop did used to go nuts with McAfee, but I am running Avast with no problems.

Cheers.
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post #5 of 15
1/17/10 at 6:39pm
I was a fan of Avast for a long time, and now move to MSE - simple, clean and doing the job.

Have you tried the game(s) with different browsers?

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post #6 of 15
1/17/10 at 6:54pm
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I have, but it's nothing major really. Laptop works fine on the whole. Might try the 32bit version of Windows 7 though, just to see if that works better with my laptop.

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post #7 of 15
1/17/10 at 7:00pm
Good luck. I can only confirm that farmville is playing fine on my 64-bit W7. Specs in gateway 7811FX and firefox.

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post #8 of 15
1/17/10 at 7:33pm
A fresh install because qhn could not duplicate. But what is running in the background if you don't want to do?

Give specs if you want to continue intelligent conversation. I only say because I am at a loss?
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post #9 of 15
1/19/10 at 10:02am
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I have reinstalled Windows 7, but this time the 32bit version, to see if it is a bit more stable. Hopefully this time it will work without any problems.

My specs are:

Inspiron 9400 (A10 Bios)
Windows 7 (I was on the 64bit, but as of last night, I am now on 32 bit, with no problems so far, fingers crossed!)
Dual Core2 T7400 processor
Nvidia Geforce go 7900
4mb of Ram (of course only just over 3 can be used on this system)

Are there any programs out there than can control the fans, on this system, that have also be digitally verified on Windows 7?

Kind regards.
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post #10 of 15
1/19/10 at 10:20am
I haven't yet found any hardware/fan control app that runs well with Windows 7 just yet. Many have tweaked them to make it fit for W7, but it doesn't impress me enough to look into not to use what Windows 7 offers (which is not much )

cheers ...
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post #11 of 15
1/19/10 at 9:09pm
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Still having problems with the laptop! As the cpu still shoots up to 80-100% and will only improve after restarting! This doesn't happen all the time, maybe once or twice a day.

The processor seems to get drained by whatever programs are running, so I don't think its a software problem.

I unistalled the nvidia drivers and then everything went super slow untill I restarted. I have since installed the newest drivers from the nvidia site, so hopefully this time it will work, but I have my doubts!

If it continues and I can't find a solution, I will have to go back to Vista

Thanks.
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post #12 of 15
1/21/10 at 3:01am
My desktop system stutters on facebook with farmville, it does use alot of cpu time. Im using firefox also and Win7 64bit. I have the same results using IE but that crashes alot with heavy flash coded pages.
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post #13 of 15
1/21/10 at 12:56pm
I tried it earlier today and ran it straight for 3 hours, no performance issue on this 7811FX and Windows 7 64-bit.

Facebook itself has an issue?

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post #14 of 15
1/22/10 at 2:45am
You'd be surprised at the amount of CPU time flash apps use. It sounds to me like the computer is overheating and therefore throttling the CPU? Try cleaning the heatsinks.
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post #15 of 15
1/22/10 at 6:59am
Maybe trying with different graphic drivers as well? And updating Flash?

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