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    Quick frame rate drop in WoW

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by thegooch69, Nov 16, 2008.

  1. thegooch69

    thegooch69 Notebook Guru

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    I've been noticing that my frame rate will drop from 60 to about 20, causing the game to pause for not even half a second, and return back to 60. It occurs every minute or so, and it's getting annoying.

    Any idea what's causing this? My settings are pretty casual; Nothing is set on high and I'm running at 1680x1050. Running laptopvideo2go drivers 180.43.
     
    thegooch69, Nov 16, 2008
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    vilator Notebook Enthusiast

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    turned off all virus scan, programs, firewall?
     
    vilator, Nov 16, 2008
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    Turning off Steam and Xfire seemed to help.

    ****, I like to keep Xfire running.
     
    thegooch69, Nov 16, 2008
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    update you drivers to Dox's 180.44. And install the powermizer switch and turn off powermizer on A/C. So that when the card starts to down throttle it cant so you just get like a little flicker but your FPS stay the same.
     
    rot112, Nov 17, 2008
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