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    Steam FPS drop?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Anti-Venom, Jan 28, 2011.

  1. Anti-Venom

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    When ever I run a Steam shortcut game, my FPS drops. I was playing Guild Wars without Steam at 60FPS. I then added a GW shortcut to steam because I thought it would be cool, but it dropped my FPS down to around 20. What do you guys suspect is the problem?
     
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    Hmph, do you leave steam running when you open guild wars without steam?
     
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    Yes, should I close Steam?
     
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    I'm not sure, i was thinking steam wasn't even open in the windows taskbar when you ran it without steam, thus windows maybe putting steam ahead in priority.
     
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    I will try to set Steams priority to low, and GW to high and see if it makes a difference, which it hasn't in the past.
     
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