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    AW freezing while playing

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by DARCODER, Apr 8, 2011.

  1. DARCODER

    DARCODER Notebook Deity

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    So, as the title say, I was playing black ops 10mn, with fraps for viewing my fps. I had 122Fps average. But sudently, it shut down to 15FPS and stay at this level max.And on the desktop, it's freezing a little bit. If I restart my computer, all be good.
    Someone know what is that problem??

    ( I don't have restarted my computer, but the freeze has be gone.) What is that, I had that with my gtx460m but it result with an bsod.

    My temp during game:
    GPU max 65*c
    CPU Max (core 2 i think ) 73*c

    I have m17x R3 4Gb ram i7 2630 gtx485m 265.77

    Thanks for any answer.
     
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    Can it be the Cpu turbo mode who fails???? Because i had with my gtx460m bsod saying:
    ''a clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor bsod laptop''

    or there is no relation?
     
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    Brozini Notebook Enthusiast

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    When you lose fps like that it is most likely the throttling on the gpu side.
     
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    Bof, i just disable i7 turbo mode and after 30mn playing, no freeze^^. Will see tomorrow if it's resolved.

    Max CPU temp: 68*c ==> without turbo mode, i gain like 5*c and more because it was more than 30min playing instead of 10mn
    Max GPU temp: 66*c