Slowdown on a Gaming Laptop - Seriously?

[Starwind Amada]

Lately I've been having major slowdown issues in numerous games. Skyrim and War for Cybertron to name a few. They'll play fine for a few minutes, but then the frame rate will drop to unplayable levels. I don't understand it. I have a high end laptop designed solely for gaming. The laptop isn't overheating and the only other application running is the browser. This should not be happening and it's rendered many of my games useless.

The laptop is an Asus G72GX gaming PC. It's running Windows 8 Release Preview. The graphics card is an nVidia GeForce GTX 260M and the processor is an Intel Core Duo 2. The laptop was manufacture in 2010. I've updated the video drivers and that has not done a thing. Someone told me to go into the BIOS; something about shared memory. I have no clue what any of that mean. I'm not a computer whiz, but I know this computer is more than capable of handline these games. It used to work fine, but now play any game for more than 30 seconds and it's like trying to play Crysis on a Nintendo 64.

[Hot Shot]

2 possible solutions that give me problems a few weeks ago
1. you dont have enough RAM when its full the stuttering begins
2. You´re GPU is overheating (but you say its not)

or you can write a ticket to the support of each game maybe they can help you better. but dont forget to attach all the needed files like dxdiag and so on. look at the steam support site for full list.

[SnarKs]

Going to Asus website, looks like the last time they updated their video drviers for that laptop was in 2009. Laptop graphics cards are terrible, they dont perform as well as desktop cards and are not kept up to date by their manufacturer. And youre running windows 8, did all these problem occur after installing windows 8? The computer came with windows 7 Im sure.

I bought a gaming laptop before, Id never do it again. The 260m card didnt last at all, just causes random crashes now, definitely defective. No more warrenty, so its pretty much garbage. At least it had a 9800m in it too I can use.

[Starwind Amada]

It came with Windows 7 and these problems started happening before I installed Windows 8.

Also, is there any way to add RAM to a laptop if that's the case? And my computer has a large fan under it, so I don't think it's overheating.

[SnarKs]

The Asus page says it can have up to 6 gigs of ram. Im guessing yours came with 1 gig of ram? Pretty sad.

[Satoru]

How much RAM does your laptop have?

[BillCipher]

Step 1. Get CPU z
Step 2. run game in a window with CPUz off to one side (where you can see it's speed - while still playing)
Step 3. When slowdown occurs check for drop in cpu speed.

If speed has dropped - ensure on high performance power setting and make sure CPU is set to 100% min and max performance. If it's still throttling down - download throttlestop.

It's what i have to do on this acer all the time.

If it isnt throttling your cpu... then i'm out of ideas.

[Starwind Amada]

SnarKs -¤lζ¤- {SDL} eredeti hozzászólása:

The Asus page says it can have up to 6 gigs of ram. Im guessing yours came with 1 gig of ram? Pretty sad.

Just checked and it has 6 gigs of RAM.

[Starwind Amada]

It's not overheating. Hell, there have been times when it does overheat yet it runs Crysis with no hiccups.

So I installed CPU-Z and I can't figure anything out. Where's the RAM? Nothing changes when I play a game. Tried L4D and it didn't help me at all. The slowdown occurred and I didn't see any numbers change.

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[Starwind Amada]

I looked at Core Speed under Clocks and it stayed in the same range even during slowdown.