In need of help

Toshiba satellite p100-286 laptop.
2.0GHz core 2 duo.
2gb system memory.
Geforce go 7900gs 512mb ram.
Vista home premium.(preinstalled)

Repeating stuttering in games.(Dark messiah.X3 reunion.Lineage2.)
Constant drops from 80fps to 10fps and back in 3 second intervals.
Tried lots of drivers, none help.
I can see my laptop has enough horse power to run these games easy!
I believe its a driver issue.

I bought this laptop as a desktop replacement.Its way too powerfull for internet browsing and watching movies, i want to use it to play games mostly, which renders it useless for the time being.

Thanks in advance for your replies.

 

1. Does your hard drive activity light, light up during these stutters?

2. Is it possible that you have a program running in the background that can cause this?

3. http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html

Download and run "Hijack this" then copy and paste the log here.

 

Try one of the 86.xx drivers. Make sure you follow the driver update guide:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=64910
How hot is your notebook getting?

 

Whoa! you guys are quick!
I didnt think you'd answer so fast! Thanks very much i will try doing this when i come home (im at work now)

Laptop is not getting very hot on touch.Fan doesnt work like crazy(thats the only thing i can tell i dont have any heat monitoring programs)

Hard drive doesnt light up often just a lil bit as it should be i suppose.
At least it doesnt necesarily light up when slowdown occures.
And they are very periodic.And they seem to worsen when i put detail level sky high in games(especialy HDR feature).But between these "lags" i can see about 80fps...so i know my laptop should be capable to maintain same speed always but......
No progs running on background apart from vista sidebar, and of course STEAM which is needed to play this game.but i tried games that dont require steam and its all same.

I have problems installing drivers.When i click SETUP icon in couple seconds i get the message something like "Setup could not find any hardware compatible with this driver" It happens to all drivers but one(dont remember the version)
So the only way i can install them drivers is by manualy UPDATE DRIVER>HAVE DISC> thingy.
And i dont notice much difference about these drivers apart from Slower/Faster loading times.
Im not even sure if im doing it right cause when i check the VERSION it says 7.15.10.(and some other digits in the end) only the end bits change sometimes.that 7.15.10 stays same always.
There was one driver tho (built in Vista i think cause i could choose it if i untick the box with "show compatible") that made some walls flash black and huge, coloured dots in the sky.But at least the was no stuttering with this driver.
Can it be that i bought a broken laptop even tho i bought it brand new from shop? or is it the NVIDIA/VISTA problem?
Thanks on advice to install 86.xx drivers will do that when i get home, and sorry for taking so much of your time.

 

Your going to have to wait a bit. Nvidia is having MAJOR problems with their vista drivers right now. A new release should be out soon.

Oh yea and about the heat....that can't be helped. I've been around that laptop you have at the store and i nearly burned my hand off. It is just sooooo hot not only in hardware but at like the 70degrees celcius the GPU is running at.

the toshiba 100 series with a 7900 is literally on fire!

 

Thank you very much for reply. I guess if all the above doesnt help i have no choise but to wait.I realy dont want to get rid of this laptop, i like it very much.Vista "feels" and looks awesome as well.wouldnt want to loose em =))

 

Yes, this is DEFINATELY a driver problem. I have the exact same thing with ,y latop right now. At First i thought your problem was heat related, but after I saw u have Vista, a light came on.

The driver for the Geforce Go 7 seriews that came with vista is terrible for gaming, and Nvidia doesnt have their drivers updated for vista yet, as u obviously read above. Ive probably tried every fdriver u have and maybe more to no avail.

All we can do is wait it out. At least now u know you arent the only one

 

Your HDD is a 4200rpm one or a 5400rpm?

 

Yeah, Vista is causing your problems. Wait for better drivers as said above.

 

not sure sorry it doesnt say anywhere in device properties...(sorry im a noob in hard drives)

 

Thanks you and everyone else for replies.
And dont get me wrong but im SOOOOOO happy to know that you also have this problem =)) that means its only software problem and it can be fixed later on.