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    Issues with starting games without power chord plugged in

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Tripfist, Feb 11, 2008.

  1. Tripfist

    Tripfist Notebook Guru

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    Hey guys,

    I just recently purchased the Sager 5793 with an 800GTX, 4 gig RAM, 200GB 7200rpm, WSXGA, and the T9300 processor. Hopefully someone out there knows what I am experiencing.

    Yesterday I was able to play all my games completely fine, WoW and CoD4 at full rez (1680x1050). The laptop was plugged into the power adapter the whole time and I had no issues. I come home this morning and turn on the laptop and no apparent issues so far. I go into WoW and just at the title screen I'm getting 3 FPS. Now I dont have a power chord plugged in so I'm wondering if this is a known issue or a downfall of this laptop? The battery setting is currently on Balanced, but I then set it to High Performance but I had the same issues when starting the game. I then tried CoD4 and the same thing happened. Is this a driver issue, bad hardware, or a limitation of the laptop? I was hoping its not the latter since I would like to play maybe 30 minutes of a game without having to setup my chords and what not.

    Any help appreciated. The driver currently installed is the 167.44 driver. This came straight from XoticPC.

    Thanks!
     
    Tripfist, Feb 11, 2008
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  2. JigoloPete21

    JigoloPete21 Notebook Guru

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    As you already stated, make sure your power scheme is set to High Performance. Also, in the nVidia control panel, make sure powermizer is disabled (if the option is there). That might help a bit.

    My computer slows down tremendously when playing games without being connected to an AC outlet. This is to be expected. I believe the battery simply cannot provide enough power to keep the video card and/or processor running at top speed.
     
    JigoloPete21, Feb 11, 2008
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