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    Ridiculous framerate drops

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Faceroller, Dec 2, 2012.

  1. Faceroller

    Faceroller Newbie

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    I have a refurbished Alienware m17x R3 that i got around May after numerous hours on tech support as the old one broke too... As of this week i have been having insane frame drops on almost every game i play. It stays at a steady 40-60 for a while then drops to about 5 for a couple seconds, then goes back to normal.

    Here is an example of what happens, the quality is not the best but at least you can see what's happening. http://youtu.be/xo40yed0CUI Ignore my friends in the background, forgot skype audio was in the video. :(

    My specs:
    Intel core i7 2670qm CPU @ 2.2ghz
    8gb DDR3 RAM
    Radeon 6970m Graphics Card
    A12 BIOS
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
    Anchorfree HHS VPN Adapter

    I have updated the AMD driver to the latest, installed the A12 BIOS, set the page file on C: drive to 8g, and some other things trying to fix it. Nothing has seemed to work. The frame drops don't occur until about 15 minutes after i restart my computer. A couple games I've played have been: DoTA2, Planetside 2, Black Ops2, and Arma2. Both of the Alienware computers I've had started having problems around November and December if that makes any difference.

    My warranty expired about 2 months ago and I have no idea what else to do to try and fix this... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
     
    Faceroller, Dec 2, 2012
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  2. Runescape

    Runescape Newbie

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    Dear Faceroller,

    I had this same issue on my Alienware laptop. However, I found that there was a large, meaty, suculant male human genital organ lodged in between the fan and the graphics card. I asked myself, "How did this happen?". Like I don't even know.
     
    Runescape, Dec 2, 2012
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  3. mendameister

    mendameister Notebook Geek

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    i died. twice, at the posts :p LOLOLL.
     
    mendameister, Dec 2, 2012
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  4. bigtonyman

    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    yup check your fans, odds are you have dust clogging them up leading to higher temps. ;)
     
    bigtonyman, Dec 3, 2012
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  5. kevinxu8

    kevinxu8 Notebook Enthusiast

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    What's your temperture?
     
    kevinxu8, Dec 3, 2012
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  6. Faceroller

    Faceroller Newbie

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    Awesome, it seemed to be the dust in the computer. Probably should have done that before i posted this. Thx guys, especially "runescape"
     
    Faceroller, Dec 3, 2012
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  7. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    Alienware-L_Porras, Dec 5, 2012
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