Urgent!!!!

Last week I was getting 100fps in css with my dell 1520, i got my lappy a week ago, now im only getting 40fps help!

 

specs? if u have vista i think it defaults to have scheduled defragmenting. i noticed that my computer was running really slow so i checked and it was defragging, scanning with my antivirus and windows defender. so i was like double jo tee eff. so i just turned off the scheduling thing.

 

7200 rpm hdd
t7500
8600gt

 

have you turned it off or restarted it at all?

 

you plugged in to the wall while playing?

 

Yes, still the same.

 

Yea pluged into my wall while playing.

 

did u install any programs during this time frame? possibly download any flix or anything that could give u a virus? is ur notebook getting hot? heat could be an issue. try cleaning out ur CPU/GPU fan. and the vents

 

check your processes and see if anything's taking up crazy amounts of cpu or memory.

since its a new laptop it probably had alot of bloatware
try to get rid of as much of it as you can...you never know whats running in the background with that stuff

 

Yeah my retarted fingerprint software will sometimes go crazy and take up all my ram. Even CRTL, ALT, and DELETE takes up to 5 minutes.

 

5 minutes! That's unacceptable.

-Taylor

 

Heh, I went to make popcorn. Its all good.

 

LOL! While you're waiting on it you can make your popcorn on my Toshiba. I make a habit of cooking eggs on it.

-Taylor

 

Hell, I could do that on my old powerbook. its how I kept my soup warm

 

Do you thinks my frame rate problem is fixable?

 

Of couse it is fixable. Your PC is functioning normally it seems, there is no need to worry. You must have installed something, changed some minor settings on your PC, or perhaps on your Router, a port may not be open, and Steam may be slowing down.

I think the most likely reason is because you are playing on high ping servers.

 

Its not the ping it was 17ms, I did download Americas Army, AOL IM, and bf2 1.41 patch, i did mess with the nvidia control panel, and i do have steam running.

 

Defrag, and screenshot task manager

 

Go to Start->Run->Msconfig (Is this still in Vista? :S)

then go to the rightmost tab and start unselecting everything that doesn't look vital. Maybe get rid of that fingerprint scanner if it doesn't behave. Also disable AIM from starting on startup.

 

oh noes! i can only play at a very playable framerate not my uber haxx fps! wholey sheet!11!!!11!1!

Right click on your desktop. Go to GPU settings or something of nVidia. Go to power optimization somethingorether. Then set the thing on both battery and plug to "maximum performance". It's something like that. I'll check when I get home.


And I would hardly call 40 FPS a framerate problem. Damn son, I used to play on 15 FPS. Even that was enough for me.

 

Hehehe I hear you. I thought eyes 40 was like the most you needed. I remember back in my day I used to play Doom over a serial link, lucky to get 5 FPS sometimes. Ah those were the days.

 

ran defrag still getting30-40fps

 

i had a similar problem with CnC3. What i did was reset my clock settings by using a program like ati tool tray and then lowered the clocks until i got artifacts and then reraised them. Weirdly enough that solved my problem and someone else who had the same problem (in CnC3 mind you)

 

I don't even have the guts to underclock,overclock.

 

Why not? The worst thing you can do is seizure in the middle of changing the bar, shove it all the way up to the top on accdent, and have the 0.000000001% chance that your computer fries.

 

Try that, but set it to balance then apply and reset it to 2nd time to max and apply... i had the same problem but this fixed it, my guess is some program i installed (in my case, Cisco VPN) mess the registry up...
Well, if u notice ur framerate is slower than normal, i would consider it as a problem.. big problems usually comes from small ones.