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    Playing the game "Toy Soldiers" black screen and performance issues

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by heizlegend, Apr 29, 2012.

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    heizlegend Notebook Enthusiast

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    When I play the game Toy Soldiers, after playing for a little while my screen goes black for about 2-3 seconds then comes back to the game. After this happens I notice a dramatic performance drop. It wouldn't bother me that much, but then I notice after it happens after that game, everything else I do is slower also (like playing BF3 afterwards).

    I monitor my temps almost constantly since I have gpu overclocked. The highest I've ever seen it while playing that game or BF3 is 69c.

    Does anybody know what is happening?
     
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    It almost feels like it is swapping modes or something? But i'm not sure what it could be, it's not going into the onboard video mode.
     
    heizlegend, Apr 30, 2012
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