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    M860tu has the hiccups in newer games

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Staleshrooms, Sep 23, 2008.

  1. Staleshrooms

    Staleshrooms Notebook Enthusiast

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    First, some background: I'm running the default graphics drivers from Sager on Windows XP. My essential specs are:

    320gb 5400 rpm HDD
    9800m GT
    1680x1050 LCD
    2.4ghz proc

    Anyways, of the game demos I've tested so far, UT3 and Company of Heroes run completely smoothly maxed out, but when I try to play the Crysis or World in Conflict demos, my laptop experiences a sudden framerate drop about every 30 seconds (from 30 fps to 20 in Crysis on high and 1280x800, 45 or so to 25 in WiC). Then the game resumes running smoothly. This happens even if I set all of the graphics options to the absolute minimum. The laptop is on AC power, although I haven't found a way to guarantee it's at full performance.
     
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  2. Xirurg

    Xirurg ORLY???

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    Driver issue definitely!
     
    Xirurg, Sep 23, 2008
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    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Driver issue of some sort - it's possible that the games, by themselves, use up so much of the system's resources that the hiccupping is actually caused by something like wireless/bluetooth polling, or background hdd I/O. As a first start, try disabling both wireless and bluetooth to see if that has any effect.
     
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  4. Staleshrooms

    Staleshrooms Notebook Enthusiast

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    Didn't work. I'm going to try some different drivers.

    Edit: no luck with 177.92

    Edit2: Fixed by removing the battery.
     
    Staleshrooms, Sep 23, 2008
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