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    Really annoying graphical issue (g73jw). Would love some input!

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by acidsheep, May 23, 2011.

  1. acidsheep

    acidsheep Newbie

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    'm on a two months old Asus g73jw with a nVidia geforce gtx 460m
    Lately there seems to be something wrong with my graphics card. I first noticed it playing WoW, actually.

    I get these fps spikes, about every 5-20 secs, depending on how much is going on at the same time.
    The screen stops for about 1-2 seconds, then continues. This is persistent no matter how low i turn the graphics. The FPS is still great when its not spiking, running at the cap of 60 fps (vertical sync/triple buffering) at every graphical setting maxed out.

    I've also noticed it happening when I'm just browsing the web, with everything stopping now and then for about 1 sec. When I'm watching a HD vid in VLC, I get this screen tearing.

    I've tried to update the graphical drivers, even did a clean installation.
    Still didn't work.
    I'd love it if I could just get the slightest bit of input :)
     
    acidsheep, May 23, 2011
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  2. James D

    James D Notebook Prophet

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    try to use furmark test and if you will have spikes
     
    James D, May 23, 2011
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  3. acidsheep

    acidsheep Newbie

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    Didn't get any spikes, but really low fps averaging at about 12.
     
    acidsheep, May 23, 2011
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    nadcicle Notebook Guru

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    Could you put the full model number and whether or not you are using a 5400rpm drive or 7200 rpm drive or not.

    I had this problem recently and got a copy of quietHDD and did the disable system suspend and disable HDD APM.
     
    nadcicle, May 23, 2011
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  5. acidsheep

    acidsheep Newbie

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    Is G73JW-TZ186V it?
    It's a 7200 rpm drive
     
    acidsheep, May 23, 2011
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  6. James D

    James D Notebook Prophet

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    is it seagate xt? try to defrag game folder and what temperature you get under stability and stress tests?
     
    James D, May 23, 2011
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    acidsheep Newbie

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    Yeah, its a seagate xt. SpeedFan says thats stable temperatures are at about 54C for the GPU and 51-54 for the processors. After 5 minutes in Furmark the GPU was at 85C and the processors at about 65C.
     
    acidsheep, May 24, 2011
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  8. kurtcocaine

    kurtcocaine Notebook Evangelist

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    If it's the momentus xt, i believe this is a known problem with a firmware update to fix it. Since I don't have the same drive, don't remember exactly where it was posted, search the forum, it's been discussed plenty afaik
     
    kurtcocaine, May 24, 2011
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  9. JOSEA

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    There are some older links for the HDD firmware KurtCocaine mentioned on NBR. The latest version runs from Win 7 & can be found here:
    Momentus XT Firmware Update
     
    JOSEA, May 24, 2011
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  10. James D

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    Yeah I heard it refills cache over and over. Except that you can write in google QuietHDD and download it. Well-known rescue for all seagate hard drives. it will reduce parking/unparking heads
     
    James D, May 25, 2011
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