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    G2S-A1 being throttled fast/slow constantly

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by hauton, Feb 7, 2008.

  1. hauton

    hauton Notebook Enthusiast

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    No OC
    171.16 firmware
    Stock BIOS (I don't see how this matters though, it wasn't happening before)

    Tried with different games, inevitably after a minute or so of pushing the cpu/gpu the framerates will drop for a while, rise back up after a few seconds of not doing anything, and promptly drop a few seconds after resuming gameplay.

    I think I've lost faith in PC gaming - I just want to play my games now... maybe I should've got a reliable PS3.
     
    hauton, Feb 7, 2008
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    I think people had this problem with G1S, and they solved it by installing a particular version of modded drivers from Laptopvideo2go.com . I don't remember the number. Search around.
     
    E.B.E., Feb 8, 2008
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  3. Irathi

    Irathi Notebook Consultant

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    Try going to your PowerGear4Xtreme application and check which setting you are running at. Make a high performance profile where CPU is 90-100%, thus keeping the performance peaked. If the profile you are running is set to vary CPU from 10-100% then you maybe it will adjust it to much and maybe a tad to late to follow the games properly.
     
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  4. hauton

    hauton Notebook Enthusiast

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    For the firmware, I've already switched from 169.28 to 171.16, but I will continue to look for it.

    As for the PowerGear, it is running at High Performance, where Min and Max are both 100%.
     
    hauton, Feb 8, 2008
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    hauton Notebook Enthusiast

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    thinking of switching to the newest asus mobile drivers (167.55 or 58)

    but i'm bumping cuz the problem has now changed from 10fps drops every minute or so

    to near-0fps for a long time every ten minutes or so

    ugh
     
    hauton, Feb 9, 2008
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  6. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    I don't think this is CPU related, most likely GPU related. By the way it's a bad idea to force your CPU to run at full blast all the time. It will not have a significant delay in accelerating when needed, it's on the order of microseconds or milliseconds at most...

    Hauton, did you search for similar threads and maybe look for that modded driver version that seemed to work?
     
    E.B.E., Feb 10, 2008
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    gotmilk Newbie

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    I have the same problem with my G2S-B2. I searched and found the drivers you mentioned (they were 163.67, by the way).

    Here is the topic.

    The drivers did not fix the problem, so I reverted back to my previous drivers (173.65).

    I contacted ASUS via the support page on their website, and this was their response:

    ... not much help. The strange thing is it throttles whenever my GPU hits 80 oC, which really isn't very hot. This should not happen on a "gaming notebook."
     
    gotmilk, Feb 11, 2008
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  8. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    BIOS update, perhaps? Thermal policies sometimes change between BIOS versions.
     
    E.B.E., Feb 13, 2008
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    Didn't help. :(

    I updated my BIOS to the newest version, and it didn't make a difference.
     
    gotmilk, Feb 13, 2008
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    Are you perhaps running the ASUS Data Security manager? If so, please remove, and also have a look at the other list of bloatware in my Vista optimization guide.
     
    E.B.E., Feb 14, 2008
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    Rahzer Notebook Consultant

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    What I did to fix the problem is to go to www.rightmark.org and download CPU RIghtMark Utility then install it, then go to Advanced properties in the program and turn off Tm1 and Tm2. Let me know if this works for you
     
    Rahzer, Feb 15, 2008
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