Lagg with Chess Titans?

I don't know why, but lately it seems to be that playing Chess Titans full screen is extremely laggy. Before it was fine... I could play with all the highest settings at full screen and it would run smoothly. Now, however, it laggs a lot whenever it does any move or anything. I turned on the system resources monitor and there's a spike in CPU usage whenver something graphical is in use. I was using the 163.44 drvers, tried the upgrade to 165.01 but that did nothing for the lagg. I think it's limited to Chess Titans only, CSS stress test seems to be running fine and so is Mahjong. The only background apps that are running is quickset, logitech mouse drivers, touchpad drivers, and avast anti-virus. What problem is this... it wasn't doing it before. And I don't think it's overheating... I tried playing immediately after turning it on and it still does it.

 

Newer video games like Chess Titans require top-notch hardware, anything else won't give you very many FPS at max settings.
Have you considered getting an Alienware laptop?

 

Tex1ntux:

I hope by "newer video games..." you meant Bioshock and Crysis, because Chess Titans is not very graphics intensive at all. It's basically 3D chess. I'll be very disappointed if the 8600M GT can't play chess...

 

Jarrod:

Have you seen how many polygons they used on the queen alone? It's like two billion, and don't even get me started on the knights. The horse's mane is another few billion, and it has to be able to be done in either porcelain, glass, or wood. It's hard on the CPU too, I'm surprised my q6600 can handle the computations that go into the opponent AI.

 

I think his problem may be that his computer is not at the "performance/max." mode. It's possible that even at AC the laptop still utilizes less than 100% of the processor and GPU.