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    This is HIGHLY odd...

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by UofTSilent, Jun 12, 2008.

  1. UofTSilent

    UofTSilent Notebook Guru

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    I don't really get it at all...it seems though that I get abnormal lag spikes and major drops in FPS in just about any of the good games out there. I just played CoD4 single player, the game should in theory run fine at 1920X1200 with no AA and no Anisotropic filtering...but I've dropped below 30fps quite a few times already...it shouldn't be happening at all...anybody have any solutions? specs in my sig.
     
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  2. stevey5036

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    Drop your resolution down to 1680x1050 or 1440x900.
     
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    He has 8800 GTX SLi, that should have no problems if my 8600 GT can play it at 1680x1050.
     
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  4. UofTSilent

    UofTSilent Notebook Guru

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    exactly and I'm running sub 30fps a lot, i mean I'm barely getting a solid 40fps in the non-action packed areas...
     
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  5. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    I might recommend trying to turn off shadows, but as you're running SLI, you might want to make sure that your drivers are up to date.
     
    Bog, Jun 12, 2008
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    I'm assuming it's your drivers. Not all drivers are good for SLI. 174.93 and 174.74 have been the most stable for me and provided the best performance. Not sure if it's good for SLI though. Worth a shot.

    P.S. You disabled VSYNC rite?
     
    XPS1330, Jun 12, 2008
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    What driver are you using? I don't have the bad mamma jamma video card like you (I just have the 8600M GT). But I think on laptopvideo2go.com the 175.80 are working great with the 8800GTX SLi's.
     
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  8. Tusin

    Tusin Notebook Evangelist

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    lol all in about 5 seconds (drivers, drivers, drivers).
     
    Tusin, Jun 12, 2008
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    It cannot hurt to try. Do you REALLY need to run it at that resolution? It isn't that big of a deal if it fixes the problem.
     
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  10. UofTSilent

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    Wow, i finally found the problem. for some odd reason my CPU downclocked itself down to 1.2ghz -.- i got it back to its normal 2.4ghz >_> so now everything is normal...
     
    UofTSilent, Jun 13, 2008
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    Some odd reason? You seleted 'Power saver' profile? ;)
     
    VinylPusher, Jun 13, 2008
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  12. UofTSilent

    UofTSilent Notebook Guru

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    nope was on Always On, went to the BIOS and found it was clocking in at 1.2ghz -.-
     
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  13. Tusin

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    Hmmm I think that means you have a faulty CPU. I will PM you my address so you can send it to me and I am diagnose it. :)

    Good to hear you found out the problem. One hell of a laptop you got there.
     
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  14. UofTSilent

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    thanks Tusin :D

    Everything back to normal now :p getting 60-110fps on CoD4 :D
     
    UofTSilent, Jun 13, 2008
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