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    Video lag in games after WoW install

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by poliuy, Jun 16, 2009.

  1. poliuy

    poliuy Notebook Evangelist

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    So I'm posting this here now because it may have to do with the system rather then the game.

    So Im running the M17 with 3870's and a C2D P8600. I used to play my steam games fine, no video lag whatsoever, recently I installed WoW, and for some reason in some areas of the game I get this weird video/sound stuttering. After being frustrated I decided to play some other games. I launched L4D and in game I now get this video stutter that I never got before. What gives? I'm really not sure what the problem is. Could it be the AW drivers? I never installed new ones after recieving the computer, could this be it? Otherwise I have no idea what is causing it =/.
     
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  2. Marvie100

    Marvie100 On a Mission

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    Could this be our first dual-core stutter issue poster? It sounds eerily like you are experiencing the issues most of the quad core owners have been plagued with.
     
    Marvie100, Jun 16, 2009
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  3. DHC

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    Not the first one, i have the exact same...1 sec hik-up / stutter in all games i play, including non gameing stuff such as playing music (windows media player)....i started having this after trying 9.1 drivers and it did not go away...even have it on 9.6...
     
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  4. poliuy

    poliuy Notebook Evangelist

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    Well, I'm not sure if it isn't a driver issue, so I'm going to install new ones just so I can rule that out.
     
    poliuy, Jun 16, 2009
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    defrag drive and update drivers?
     
    JBBW, Jun 16, 2009
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  6. DHC

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    Defragged last week, running newest drivers available.

    Tried many different solutions but unfortunatly they did not work.

    I think it might be heating related, so i am gonna order some OCZ Freeze and apply that to my notebook.

    Looking at the temps of some other M17 owners i think mine are totally messed up, i idle at both cpu & gpu over 50 degrees using a good notebook cooler...
     
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  7. poliuy

    poliuy Notebook Evangelist

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    When your GPU and CPU are over say 90c then you got problems even 80 is sometimes reason for concern.

    Anyway, I called the AW their tech support connected to my computer and uninstalled and installed the new drivers. Everything is better :)
     
    poliuy, Jun 16, 2009
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  8. jeffreyac

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    I've had WoW installed on my M17 (specs in sig), as with a bunch of other games, since I got it about 3 or 4 months ago - no issues with stutter-like problems on my dual. I run stock drivers, nothing fancy, and haven't seen any video issues - only seen sound issues once, and that appeared to be related to the hibernate/sleep bug folks have talked about here...
     
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  9. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    yea you need to reapply your thermal paste
     
    The_Moo™, Jun 16, 2009
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  10. Rob41

    Rob41 Team Pirate Control

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    I too have had nothing but flawless performance with the X9100 in my rig as well. Was playing some Crysis, but now mainly just Fallout 3. :p
     
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  11. AtolSammeek

    AtolSammeek Tokay Gecko

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    I had a issue like that on my secondary Laptop that has a ATI Grapics. Dual core and had one game that seem not to work as well. What I did was setup all the software to run on Core 1 and the game one Core 2. Which help play game.

    If windows Vista is like Windows XP. Dedicate one of the 4 cpus to Wow as well as the single gpu setup. See if that helps.
     
    AtolSammeek, Jun 17, 2009
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