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    Latitude D820 Random Freezing/Low FPS

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Double07nr, Apr 15, 2008.

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    Hello all! And thanks ahead of time for the help.

    I have a Dell Latitude D820 lappy, 4gb gskill ram, 120m NVS Quadro and t2400 cpu. I can pretty much play games 2 years or older 100% high settings, or Half life 2 medium settings without a problem. I get a solid 30fps+ on portal on low/medium settings on 1080x768.

    Recently I've been experiencing this weird glitchyness with ALL of my games. The games would slow down to a crawl, jam up, then all of a sudden come back to 100%. If I exit the game (ctrl and esc) and re-enter, the game would go back to normal. When they jam up, the screen flickers a little (usually a white bar flashes on the top half of my screen for less than a half a sec) and that triggers the full freeze up of a game (1fps). It starts to slow down before this flicker at random places, no errors, not even at intense filled screens with a lot of animation. I can just sit in a corner in portal with no new loading, and if I wait long enough the slow down/freeze occurs (and again, all games, not localized to just steam games. Sims, need for speed, FEAR).

    I've searched the forums and found people having similar problems, but it was never really solved.

    Also, my battery is DEAD. It won't charge at all, and the battery red LED keeps flashing, even when its plugged in. This shouldn't be the problem since it's plugged in, should it?

    Anyway, its hella annoying and I have no clue whats causing it. It's not ram or vid or cpu because I can play games with a solid 30-40fps no problem. Comp is running warm, but not hot. Drivers are the most stable ones according to what I have read. I turn off zone alarm and other programs that might interact negatively to gaming. I have no clue what else could be the problem.

    Anyway, any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
     
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    I've been going through pages all day today, and It actually might be the battery. I think theres some program that is checking on the battery, and when the battery doesn't respond, it goes into a loop and crashes. I know this happens on IBMs, I'm sure dell has an equivalent program thats doing something similar.

    Does anyone think this is true/have a work around?
     
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