The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    The Witcher 2 Throttle?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by m1_1x, Dec 5, 2011.

  1. m1_1x

    m1_1x Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    27
    Messages:
    500
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Not entirely sure if its thermal throttling but my gtx 460m seems to have throttling issues with TW2 when outside in town areas (happens in the field sometimes) where the fps will go from 45 average to a low 15-20fps and spikes around those two. These are the speeds and settings I play at..

    core - 810
    shader - 1600
    memory - 1550

    settings @ 720p
    medium-high settings
    averaging (well without throttle) around 40-50fps

    The gpu temps reached a max (according to MSI and HWMonitor) after a couple hours at 89c

    TW2 is patched to the latest if thats any relevant.

    I suspect its the gpu, though idk if TW2 is dependant on cpu more than gpu. I heard sandybridge series likes to drop to 780mhz frequently during gaming
     
    m1_1x, Dec 5, 2011
    #1