Massive Drop In Fps....

Hi i just got my Asus N61Jq about 2 weeks ago and it's been running perfectly. I run everything at high - Ultra, mainly high to be safe but lately my FPS for starcraft 2 has dropped dramatically. It STARTS at 65-70 then drops as the game goes on and about 20 minutes into a game it's at 4-5 FPS. can anyone help me? I have no idea what to do.

1. It's not overheating, it's on a cooler and i can feel that it's very cool
2. I restarted, turned off everything in the background (even though before i ran starcraft with itunes and google chrome in the background)
3. I even put everything on low settings to offset the massive drop in FPS but still to no avail.
4. I set it back to a previous date and nothing happened.
5. I don't want to overclock or anything cause it's an i7 so it should be good enough to play ANYTHING

anyone have any ideas on how to fix this problem? For god's sake its a 2 week old laptopt ... pretty ******* ridiculous ....

 

Run some GPU monitoring software. Might be the card downclocking...
Maybe it's just all the units.

As for the i7 ... that does NOTHING for graphics. the 5730 in it, isn't particularly amazing - but not very bad.

 

It could be throttling, on G51J and some i7 based, there is a safety boundry where the gpu throttles. [Fixed/Workaround] Asus G51J(x) CPU throttling investigation. Not sure if this is the same case, but just check it to see.

 

Even if i ran a gpu monitoring program, which I don't know what's a good one, i don't really trust internet programs, what would it tell me about my computer and how to fix it?

And I read through that post you sent Abulu and I don't think that that is the problem. I run other games perfectly fine, it's just starcraft 2 that drops randomly mid game. I wouldn't really mind as much if it wasn't a 2 week old laptop. You would think it would last longer than 2 weeks. .... so stupid ... really hate asus

anyone have any suggestions of what to do? besides just telling me what it MIGHT be but a solution as well?

 

... You don't trust internet programs? What's an internet program?

Anyways, a good tool, like GPU-Z, would tell you the temperature of your card. As with most things in life, there are multiple ways of fixing a problem - so no ONE utility is going to give you ALL teh solutions.

And you may need to do a variety of diagnostics to figure out what is wrong. It may be, that your computer is sitting on top of high-pile sheepskin carpet, and there is no heat circulation. Or you may live somewhere hot - like 60C hot - and the GPU can't cool down, ever.

No one can diagnose your problem without more information. And if you can't provide additional information, you can't get anything more than speculation.

NOTE: If it is JUST Starcraft 2 that causes the problem, why would you blame the laptop? It seems the laptop works great! But starcraft doesn't. AT least, if I had a car, and it drove great on EVERY road except one, I'd blame the road, not the car ...

 

I agree with DCx, download GPUz its a very good program, and it doesnt isntall anything its just a file, click on the sensor tab, check continue refreshing while in the background and if you want also the log so you can see what happen in a file, go play with gpuz already open, and when ever you get the problem go check the temps n clocks in gpuz (sensor tab). BTW you can click on each sensor, and it will change to max so you can see what was your max temperature during the gaming sesion, and if you can post the jpg of that here to see.

N61 has had some users reported running hot, now SC2 is also know to have issues on the loading screens to have not limited the FPS maybe you card is overheating. Also ATI catalyst were not optimal when SC2 was released, many updates have been included in last releases, so you might aswell test some new drivers.