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    Please help all of a sudden low FPS????

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Detroit85, Jun 22, 2014.

  1. Detroit85

    Detroit85 Notebook Consultant

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    My AW 17 has been running great up until today. I went to play my Farming simulator 2013 and I am getting 20-25 FPS when I normally get 60. I tried Far Cry 3 and Im getting 8-10 FPS. Also Spintires is running at about 20FPS. Something is wrong and I know nothing about computers so could someone please help? I restarted the computer twice now with no luck and temps are fine.

    I have the 780M and I use MSI afterburner to keep an eye on temps. I just opened it up and for some reason my Memory clock was set to +1000 and Core was set to 324. I have would NEVER set them like that and I know better. How the hell did this happen??? Did that screw something up? I just uninstalled MSI afterburner and will never use it again. Thanks for the help.


    EDIT.. Just ran Firestrike and got a score of 1115. Something is wrong.
     
    Detroit85, Jun 22, 2014
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    Siphorous Notebook Consultant

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    Hmm. It's a tough one to diagnose (and for me as I don't have the 780m).

    One thing I would try though is to install latest drivers (or if you have them - uninstall and reinstall). Make sure to check the checkbox that does a 'clean install' removing all previous settings etc.

    See if that helps the situation any.

    I too use MSI afterburner (but only occasionally). I don't typically use it to do anything but monitor temps (much like yourself).

    Good luck with getting it sorted.

    Other things to check too - bios versions etc.
     
    Siphorous, Jun 22, 2014
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  3. J.Dre

    J.Dre Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Download NVIDIA Inspector and check the overclocking tab to see if there's a GPU temperature limitation set. This happens to some systems I've seen. You can move the slider all the way to 93C, which will allow the GPU to run at its best.

    Also, do as suggested above: install the latest drivers and update your system BIOS to A11.
     
    J.Dre, Jun 22, 2014
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    Detroit85 Notebook Consultant

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    Well I reinstalled the drivers and updated the BIOS from A08 to A11 and all seems great now. Thank you

    Sent from my Galaxy S5 using my neighbors internet
     
    Detroit85, Jun 22, 2014
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    I'm glad you could make it work with that :thumbsup:
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Jun 25, 2014
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