Massive FPS drops Ati HD5730

My problem is the following:

When I'm in WoW or Trackmania Nations I experience massive FPS drops with absolutely no reason. In WoW when I am literally doing nothing, just standing in the room, it fluctuates from 60Fps and than for no apparent reason drops to 20FPS. I have to restart the game at least 5-6 times to get it not to do that. I don't exactly remember when this started happening but it's causing me big problems. When laptop is in that fps fluctuation mod, when I'm in raid fps drops from 55-60fps to <5 fps -.-.

I wasn't measuring fps for trackmania but it's pretty noticable when the game goes smooth on minute and then it just lags the next. Needless to say it's really annoying.

It's not graphic setting problem cause I played before that with no problem.
It's not overheating problem because this happens when I just turn him on and when I finally get him to not mess with me I can play as long as I want.

I tried updating drivers but I have "2" cards. One intel crap and ati. And when I installed newest drivers that "switch graphic" option disappeared and i was stuck on intel so had to reinstall drivers for lenovo site which are updated in february. Says i have 8.752 main version.
My laptop specs:
IdeaPad Y560 15.6" (1366x768) , Core i5 Mobile 430M, DDR3 SDRAM 4GB, ATI Mobility Radeon HD5730 1GB

 

Sounds like a driver problem, did you clean the residues of your old drivers in safe mode before you start installing new drivers? If you hadn't, I suggest you re-do the process: uninstall the drivers, boot into safe mode, use driver sweeper to remove the leftovers, then restart into normal mode and install the latest drivers again. If the problem still happens, then you probably have to stick with the last "stable" drivers set which was released by Lenovo.

 

I doubt its a driver problem.
Your system is throttling, so heat may be the culprit.
You need to monitor your temperatures to see if when reaching a certain limit the gpu downclocks.
To do so, install Msi afterburner.
Open it, go into settings, then search for monitoring and configure each entry to show it in OSD.
You need these entries:
- gpu clocks
- gpu memory
- gpu temperature
- fps.
Every entry should be first enabled by clicking the black checkmark near to it, then check "show in OSD" below.
Now when applying settings the program should launch another program RTserver.
Launch a game and check if OSD is working and watch the values accurately, specially temperature and clocks. If throttling happens then your temperature has raised quite a bit and your gpu clocks should scale back to lower speeds.
If that doesnt happen, before ruling out a possible driver issue, it can be the cpu that is throttling.
You need a stress tool like prime95, run a stress test like SmallFFT and see, whit a program opened like Cpu-Z, his behaviour.

 

It shouldn't be problem with throttling since after a few game restarts it comes back to normal and I can play for hours and hours without a problem.

 

Do you restart the games or the pc itself?
Because if youre restarting the games then something that is running in background may be the culprit.
Do you have any factory bloatware, antiviruses, auto tasks running?
Also it may be a problem related to the disk access.
When youre having these problems does the hdd led stays active all the time even on desktop? If so prolly the fps drop stops when windows finishes (or other programs) the startup process.
Try disabling everything with Run->Msconfig->Boot (or set diagnostic mode with only a few processes) to see if its more stable.
Also google for "core parking" in windows and disable it.

 

i am only restarting the game until I have everything back to normal. Ty for suggestion. Will try them now.
edit: in msconfig/boot the only thing that's running is windows 7. Also under general i have selective start up checked. Shouldn't be normal mode checked?

 

Yup, you can try different settings.
However, what is important are the entries under "boot" (next to Tools).
That panel should list all the programs in auto run. Try to disable everything.

 

Sounds like throttling. I can run Wow at 1920 x 1080 max settings and keep a lock a 30 fps never drops. Search up thorttlestop and run it see if it makes a difference. Also download hwmonitor and post your temps at the time of slowdowns

 

Make sure you're running the system under performance mode, it could be because of windows power management under-clocking the cpu/gpu, but if you don't face any issues with games requiring similar graphics, reinstall the game.

Try reinstalling Directx first, if that doesn't help then reinstall the game.

Sometimes an old version of the graphics driver works better than the newer one, will recommend trying different versions to see if there's any difference in fps.

 

sounds ike some driver and software are not working correctly, wipe out the rebel scum (format the drive)

 

Open the task manager before launching the game and when the drop occurs, alt-tab to it and check which process is the culprit.