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    880m and wow WoD fps drop..

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Rasmusm, Nov 21, 2014.

  1. Rasmusm

    Rasmusm Notebook Guru

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    Hi all

    Been playing WoD for the last week, great game!
    However im experiencing fps drops on my 2 month old Aw 17 with 880m and 16gb of ram and intel I-7 4700MQ.

    I activated v-sync so should be stable at 60fps and it is, just sometimes it drops to 30 and stays there for a while then back up to 60.. Its annoying!

    Running the latest 344.75 nvidia driver (isnt that wath its called?)

    What would cause the drop in fps? Is it a problem with down throttling I heard about?

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    Rasmusm, Nov 21, 2014
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    Windows 8/8.1? ... I'd disable superfetch service, that's what was causing same issue on my laptop.
    Another thing to try is Windows compatibility mode...
     
    maxslo, Nov 21, 2014
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  3. Rasmusm

    Rasmusm Notebook Guru

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    Its win 8.1. Tbh I dont know what superfetch is?
     
    Rasmusm, Nov 21, 2014
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  4. TomJGX

    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    Superfetch is a windows thing to speed up access to data..

    Ok, firstly, what hard drive/storage combo do you have?

    Next, I think this is a throttling issue.. What are your temps, Run HWinfo64 while playing the game and get your temps..
     
    TomJGX, Nov 21, 2014
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  5. CptXabaras

    CptXabaras Overclocked, Overvolted, Liquid Cooled

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    cutting fps in half (60 > 30) looks to me more like a v-sync related problem.
     
    CptXabaras, Nov 21, 2014
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    Tweak155 Notebook Evangelist

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    Is it 120hz screen? I remember reading how Vsync works odd once you hit a really high FPS and sometimes it has to drop frames to catch it back up. Can't remember how it works though.
     
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  7. Rasmusm

    Rasmusm Notebook Guru

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    Samsung new 850 serie SSD and a alienware 500gb std hdd for storage. Wow is on the ssd

    Could be v-sync related yea. Ill try run hwinfo64 while playing thanks :)

    No not 120hz screen. For all I know Max is 60hz
     
    Rasmusm, Nov 22, 2014
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