Hardware Interrupts and Deferred Procedure Calls (DPC's)

Had an issue with my 6831 where at times I would find that up to 25% of my processor was being used for deferred procedure calls...as it turns out this MAY be an issue with the Gateway Nvidia drivers. I replaced the stock drivers off the Gateway website which may have been updated to a modded Nvidia driver and all seems fine now though still monitoring for a "relapse". Just a heads up....

You can monitor these processes with task manager or use a proggy such as Process Explorer.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

 

Which driver version are you using and where did you get it?

I have been researching potentially using one from http://laptopvideo2go.com/ for my Gateway computer to fix a weird refresh rate problem I am experiencing with my Viewsonic monitor, but I am not sure which of the many versions to try.

 

My issue turned out not to be a video driver issue and nor was it a hardware issue....just so happens that for whatever reason running the Folding@Home SMP project illicits the issue and nothing else I have ran on the computer does....as far as which driver to use I am currently running the updated stock driver on the Gateway website though have experimented with the modded drivers as well...can't really say which is best as I personally don't believe there is one that is best....just depends on how you use the computer and how you feel about the individual drivers....as a general rule the latest releases are typically the "best" so to speak. With the Nvid drivers off the Gateway site I manage 10,000+ on 3Dmark 06 which is good enough for me and dx10 works with this Gateway driver release...at least in Crysis it does.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=5687604