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Random Slowdowns While Playing Games

post #1 of 3
10/4/04 at 7:01pm
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Hey guys! I'm new here.
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Whenever I play games, such as Battlefield 1942, the framerates are smooth as silk at the highest settings!

But every few minutes, I get MASSIVE slow-down. The framerate drops somewhere around 15-20 fps. Completely unacceptable.

It does this with EVERY game, no matter how high I have the graphics!

I turned UT2004 to 800x600, ALL settings on the LOWEST and it STILL did it!

What could be the problem?

I am running the standard Toshiba drivers for the ATi chipset. I tried the "Mobility Modder" but it took away my D3D support, leaving me with only OpenGL.

I also tried the Omega Drivers, but that created weird texture problems. I think I might try to install them again, just to see if it was a fluke.

Any suggestions? I just upgrade my RAM today from 512 to 1024 and the problem still happens.

I also ruled out an overheating problem because I have the laptop propped on books (giving the fans PLENTY of air) and the problems still occur. I think it must be the drivers.

Thanks for any help!

-Brian
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post #2 of 3
10/4/04 at 8:35pm
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Well I think it must be overheating.

I changed my drivers and nothing has changed. When the slowdowns occur, the fan all of a sudden moves to full blast.

What can I do to help this!? I already have the thing propped... anything else I can do to help cool this thing off?

-Frustrated, Brian.
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post #3 of 3
10/4/04 at 9:30pm
I think that it could be the lack of a dedicated video card.
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