The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    FPS spikes on new M17x-R2

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Lolinternets, Aug 11, 2010.

  1. Lolinternets

    Lolinternets Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    2
    Messages:
    80
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    16
    I just recently received my laptop and all in all I am very pleased with this thing. It performs like a dream come true but I have noticed some problems that I'm concerned about. I took the time to use the search function before posting this but maybe I didn't look hard enough because I couldn't find anything real helpful. My concerns are this: last night I had my laptop running all night and awoke this morning to play L4D2 as I joined a game the fps was extremely choppy and made it impossible to play so I quit the game and did a reboot which fixed my problem and was able to play at a constant 60fps. This was the second time I had to reboot due to choppy fps and it also happened in WoW. I am running the stock dell drivers that came with this laptop. All in all this laptop performs quite perfectly to my liking despite the choppy fps that causes me to have to reboot my system. I'm probably assuming that crossfire is disabling itself sometimes which is why I'm experiening this lag but any input from you guys out there would be appreciated as I would like to pinpoint why my laptop is doing this.
     
  2. Lolinternets

    Lolinternets Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    2
    Messages:
    80
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    16
    /Bump with hopes of getting someone who can help.
     
  3. reborn2003

    reborn2003 THE CHIEF!

    Reputations:
    7,764
    Messages:
    2,988
    Likes Received:
    349
    Trophy Points:
    101
  4. AtolSammeek

    AtolSammeek Tokay Gecko

    Reputations:
    204
    Messages:
    1,588
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    If the games are like Wow where your online. Check the game timeline. Alot of times if you are on when the servers that has alot of people at one time Everyone get lag. Then try at times when it has less people.