Noob needs help with P-7815u please!

Hi, I am new to the forum and a noob to video cards...
I bought the P-7815u FX about 2 months ago and I am having problems running Call of Duty Black Ops. I get some spikes when I am playing the campaing (I have not even tried multiplayer) and I have been lookinh on the internet and in the forum for how to tweak my video card so I get better frames and performance.

I have already done things that I have read online, I downloaded the latest driver from nvidia homepage and install normally, I downloaded game booster, I have been changing the graphic specs ingame to the lowest and I still can get it to properly work.

I read here about overclocking, but I am a little scared to do it. I also read a thread about a guy named buttons252 and he bought a new processor(x9100), but I currently dont have money to get it.
I want to know if anyone know something I can do right now, (without getting the new processor) that may help... or if there is nothing to do except get a new processor.

I thank you in advance for any provided help.
sorry for bad english and wall of text

Gateway P-7815U, P7350, 9800M GTS

 

Anyone....?

 

I am not sure how COD should run with these. A good indicator is look to see if the CPU is being stressed. If you see 100% flood on any on core etc than maybe a CPU upgrade is in order.

I can tell you they recomend a E6600 C2D, 4m cache 2.4 GHz so it may be time to upgrade the CPU. Supposedly a 8600 GT is the minimum video card so the 9800m GTS should suffice as a minimum.

Here Are Your Call Of Duty: Black Ops Specs!

 

I think that windows task manager will show all games as using 100% cpu, or 100% on as many cores as it is able to use. I have seen this to be the case with games like Starcraft and Age of Empires II.

You have a good reason to be a little scared of GPU overclocking. If you don't have the right software (called OCCT) then you might never know that you are damaging your card. I don't think OCCT is good at all for testing the stability of the memory because its stress test uses very low amounts of video memory.

From what I have seen the GPU is the bottleneck in pretty much every game, although they often have physics and particle settings that are "offloaded" onto the CPU and are optimized for quad+ core processors. Just turn those settings down.

 

Thx for the help guys

 

This is for everyone that may have a similar problem with the P-7815u.

I tried everything, from windows install tweaks to overclocking the GPU but my problem was still there. Then I found this thread:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/gateway-emachines/440701-7915u-fx-sound-problem.html

read some of it and downloaded the "Powermizer switch" and it completely solved my problem.

Now I am playing black ops with something between 30-60 fps without problems.

Hope this help someone else who is having problems!