AC:R slows down over time

When I play Assassin's Creed: Revelations, the game starts off okay (a little choppy, though), and gets progressively worse. If I leave it running for a few minutes and come back, it becomes unplayable. I set it to run with the nVidia GPU, and I had no problems with the previous games (in fact I ran them with the Intel graphics until I realized it and changed it to the nVidia graphics). The m14x shouldn't have any problems with this game even on high settings. I've also downgraded to the 285.62 driver and turned off Turbo Boost to no avail. A game getting worse as it runs sounds like a heat issue.

Any ideas?

 

How are your temperatures while gaming ( When your performance gets worst?)

- Go to your Nvidia control panel and make sure your refresh rate is at 60hzp ( Not 40hz , this hurts performance
-Go to the Physx control in the Nvidia panel as well and switch it from AUTO or CPU to NVIDIA GPU, This should handle the physics with the GPU ( Which will give you more frames and less heat)
-on the General settings look for the "power management mode" switch it to Prefer maximum performance
-Upgrade to the 301.42 drivers and do a clean install and tell me how you do.

 

What are your M14x's specs?

 

Okay I did everything Brolaf said and kept Turbo Boost off. The temperature without the game running was about 57 degrees Celsius. After starting the game, the temp rose for about ten minutes until it got to about 97, which it stayed at. Shortly after reaching that max temperature, it got to the point that it was so choppy that it was nearly unplayable.

My specs are: i7-2720QM, 4GB RAM, GT555m 1.5 GB, 1600x900

 

No ideas? Maybe I should ask Dell support about it?

 

97 is ridiculously hot, that's the point where car engines start overheating, so I think you should do some things.

Look into a cooler, if your playing with the fan vents covered, put some bottle caps underneath either side of the laptop and let the lappy breathe, and do me a favour and take a photo of your gaming enviroment.

Basically, take a photo the laptop and where it usually sits while you game.

Heat jumps at me as the issue, 97 at full load is HORRIBLE, it should be closer to 60.

 

Car engines do not overheat at 97 degrees Fahrenheit unless your talking Celsius but then his laptop would probably be melting.

My advice would to take some compressed air and clean out the vents and inside if it's getting hot.

 

Celsius mate, Pretty sure America is the only place that still uses Fahrenheit

And he is the one that said 97 Celsius.

 

Yup misread it.

 

Is it really hot where you live? What surface do you play in? I would open up the laptop and clean it with compressed air and use thermal paste and that i'm sure would fix your temp issues. IF not, then i would call dell. But only after doing this

 

It's only a year old and I've had it open recently and I didn't see any dust clogged up in it. It's raised on a Logitech cooling tray and it's very open. Also, I'm in Oregon so it's not very hot. It should be 60 at full load? It's around there when on the desktop with the max performance setting (50 without) and I've read other people online saying there's runs at the same temperature.