Strange FPS issue on ASUS G50vt-x5

Hi,

I have the refurbished model of the G50vt-x5 which i bought 2nd hand and have since installed Windows 7 all relevant drivers and such. It's around 6 months old.

The problem I am experiencing is something I have never seen before on a system before and so here I am asking the good people of NBR, hoping someone has experienced this problem before and can shed some light on it.

When i start a system demanding game, any 3d game, it will perform really well (what it's suppose to do) and everything seems good. Than about 5 minutes into the game the screen will freeze and flick to blank screen for about 5 seconds, than it will return to the game like nothing happened. But when it comes back I lose around 10-20 FPS until I reboot the system, which is a big deal for me since I hate playing games unless I get 60FPS.

Admittedly I have done some overclocking on the CPU and Video card but I have since reinstalled nvidia drivers and no longer overclock either of them. Whether I have done some damage because of this, I am not sure but I don't think I have as I didn't push it too hard.

Any ideas?

Much appreciated.

 

use a temp monitor program such as HWmonitor as your gaming to see if anything is overheating. It sounds like a overheating gpu to me.

 

Any error messages?

 

Thanks guys, I have just tested Borderlands with a temp monitor program.

The temperature of my video card go's well into the 80+ degrees within the first 5 minutes of gaming. At which point it flicks to a black screen as per usual. This time I alt tabbed instantly to see that the Nvidia driver had failed (195.62), and had restarted itself (possibly under clocking the video card to maintain temp???).

In saying that, I have overclocked the video card before and i have monitored the temps ensuring they didn't go over 75 degrees. Which they never did. Oddly enough, this problem has only been occurring in the last month or so...

I am going to try format when I get around to it.

Cheers

 

Even 90C shouldn't downclock your card. While it's not healthy, you can punt games around with 90C.

Methinks your GPU is bad. You get the driver failure message either if you're overclocking too high or your card is coughing up electrons.

 

ya temps in the 80s for the gpu is pretty much normal for these laptops.

i had my g50vt-x5 for about 11months and never had any problems with the driver stopping or any slow downs.

my temps is around 80 too 88c sometimes it will get too 93c but i also got my gpu overclocked very high way over gts speeds which is stable.

ony time i did get that driver error is when i went way too far overclocking.


what drivers you running?

im useing 185.81s

 

Yeh lads I figured it out.

My assumption that the OC on the video card would be removed when I reinstalled the drivers was bad. I was just looking in the Nvidia control panel and saw the clock speeds weren't default and was like what the...

So yeh the clock speeds were too high.

All is well now.

Never overclocking again.

 

Overclocking isn't bad. Just don't overclock so high that you get errors.

<strike>Or fry your GPU</strike>.

 

May I ask what forceware version you are using? The problem you are experiencing appears to be similar to the pre sp1 vista*nvidia driver error, maybe switch to an older version just to verify if it's happening still.

ff you need further assistance, please feel free to PM me your system specs and unit SN. The sn will be used to verify hardware specs and revision and not warranty validity.