Sager NP8690 with HD 5870 Crawling with Dragon Age : Origins

Hi,

Its been 2 weeks for me since I got my Sager NP8690. I play Dragon Age : Origins on Full settings with 4X AA. The game starts okay, but after 20 minutes of gameplay, it starts stuttering and choking..

Is it just my PC or am I expecting too much out of the HD 5870

I am using MySN bios latest and I have disabled HT. I also have removed the vent cover from the fan.

My Catalyst driver version is 10.8

Please help

Thanks

 

Disable AntiVirus software while playing. Disable any background programs that aren't needed. Dragons age is a great game and graphic card killer. But still, that 5870 should be running it just fine.

Some games, especially some online ones, have what they call a memory leak. They play awesome for the first 20-30 minutes, and then the page file, cache, or whatever, gets filled up and then the graphics are all bottlenecked. Make sure you have all the latest drivers for your hardware and the latest patches for the game.

 

I do not have any Anti Virus on my machine.. and running latest Drivers and OS patches.

Will look for Dragon Age patches and see if it needs patching and update it.

Thanks,

 

Consider getting an anti virus/adware remover to see if you have something slowing you down. In task manager see if are using a lot of resources (cpu/ram). Do some tests like furmark to see if your gpu is throttling due to overheating or something. Is it just DA:O or are there other games you are having issues with? Try and do some benchmarking/prime95/other tests just to see if everything is ok with the machine.

 

Check your temperatures. If it's pretty high you might have to reapply the thermal paste, or resit the heatsinks.

I have the 280m, 2 levels down from your card, and playing DA:O on full as well, no stuttering/choking. One only problem i see is the temperatures. There are issues I heard that the 5870m doesn't clock properly during some situations.

 

So I observed the temps and the 4 CPU cores run at 58 - 61 Degrees C

My GPU runs at around 71 to 81 Degrees C.

That's the temperature shown by Everest Ultimate tool.

You would be godsend to provide any help to get these temps in control

How do I fix the 5870 Clocking issue ?

Thanks.

 

Is that idle or load? Basically are you running prime95 (cpu stressor) or furmark (graphics card test) or at least some game? If idle those do seem high. I've heard complaints that the Sager can have some issues with the heatsinks not making good contact.

 

Those would be load temperatures which according to many people is normal range. So why do I get so much stutter in the game.

 

It actually seems that a lot of people have the same problem with Dragon Age: Memory Leak?

However, I had no such problem, it ran fine even with my GTX 260M (used no AA though).

 

So yeah.. I am going to try the CPU affinity Fix and see if that works..

 

I run DA:O at 1080p, 2x AA, Very High Graphics Detail, and High Texture Detail. I also enabled V-sync and Frame Buffer Effects and the game runs like butter.

And yeah, definitely get DA patched up and let us know how it goes.

 

The latest patch for DA:O is supposed to plug quite a few of the more severe memory leaks which can occur, especially for ATI cards, from what I was reading. Give that a shot first.

 

Networking can sometimes case bad DPC latency which affects your entire system. If you have a torrent program running that could be it.

ps no one said frame butter effects did they? just checking