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    8600m GT, ingame freeze followed by slow FPS

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by CoPa708, Dec 26, 2008.

  1. CoPa708

    CoPa708 Newbie

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    Hey everyone,
    I've been having a problem playing games for a couple months now (problem did not exist say a year ago but i haven't played games again until a couple months ago). Whenever I play a game, gears of war and crysis mainly, the game will randomly freeze and my frames per second (fps) will slow down drastically. I've searched everywhere, every forum, contacted dell (not by phone yet) and i'd like to avoid shipping my laptop back to them if it's a problem on my end.

    i've done a clean install of windows about 3 times now and reverted back to different drivers, the new laptop drivers provided by nvidia, dell, and the latest forceware 181 from laptopvideo2go.com. the only drivers i can remember working are 167.xx but they were really unstable. I have overclocked my video card and downclocked it back to normal settings and stuff like that but the problem started way before i ever overclocked (i thought it was just crysis being stupid until i found out gears does it too and oblivion has done it before).

    my specs are:
    dell inspiron 1720
    vista home premium
    4 GB ddr2 sdramm
    geforce 8600m GT overclocked with rivatuner (i've uninstalled rivatuner to make sure it's not the clock settings for sure)

    any help would be greatly appreciated, i'm starting to give up :(
     
    CoPa708, Dec 26, 2008
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  2. boypogi

    boypogi Man Beast

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    i think its over heating
     
    boypogi, Dec 27, 2008
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  3. Voodoofreak

    Voodoofreak Notebook Deity

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    Looks like you've already tried a bunch of things. How did your temps look when you were testing out Gears and Crysis?
     
    Voodoofreak, Dec 27, 2008
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  4. daljeet

    daljeet Notebook Evangelist

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    You can do few checks like moniter your GPU and CPU temperature, try to play those games on low ingame setting eg: AAxx off and lower down resolution may solve your problem.
     
    daljeet, Dec 27, 2008
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  5. CoPa708

    CoPa708 Newbie

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    yeah my GPU stays under 60 and my cpu gets up to 72 max (after a couple hours though) i've tried lowering settings and what not didnt help. i looked up some effective drivers in the 16x series and 167.25 is doing a good job so far, i may just deal with having old drivers for a while or at least until my warranty runs up.
     
    CoPa708, Dec 27, 2008
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  6. scythie

    scythie I died for your sins.

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    Welcome to NBR!

    I was reading through your post and got confused. What driver are you using now?
     
    scythie, Dec 27, 2008
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  7. CoPa708

    CoPa708 Newbie

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    167.25, i just went to it yesterday after reading up on it but the latest rivatuner doesn't work well with it, i'll have to find another one.
     
    CoPa708, Dec 27, 2008
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