Toshiba P105-S9337 Terrible game perfomance! (on a gaming laptop)

Just yesterday I purchased a Toshiba P105-3997 gaming laptop with Windows Vista and I'm getting horrible frame spikes. For a gaming laptop I find it very difficult to game on. The problem here is that whenever I run any type of game (Halo PC, Battlefield 2, even 3dmark) I get wonderful performance except for every 5 seconds my frames per second drop to sub 10 levels. For example, I play Halo. With all high settings at native res I get 100 frames per second. Not, every 5 or so seconds my frames drop to the 20-10 range and then go back up. This symptom is similar to other programs, including Vista's built in chess game! This is rediculous! It has a GeForce Go 7900 GS for god sakes, it should be able to handle these things like nothing. Anyone have any suggestions? If I cant get this fixed I'll have to return my laptop, unfortunately, and go with a more expensive XPS or so .

 

Have you tried new drivers for your GPU. And the 4200rpm HDD might be a problem

 

Part of it may be Vista itself, since gaming hasn't been optimized for that OS just yet. But you may also want to do the dual-core fix here.

 

Where could I find newer drivers? I tried toshiba's site but they have some drivers that are even OLDER than the ones that came preinstalled. I too think this may be a HDD problem but when I ran a benchmark with HDTune it actually beat my 60gb 5400rpm reformatted HDD from my previous laptop by quite a bit in terms of transfer rate, etc.

 

I would have to say a large part of it may be Vista itself. I have a predecessor to the above mentioned system and I experienced some severe issues when I installed Vista that are very similar to what the OP mentioned above. Went back to XP Pro for the time being.

jessi - check out laptopvideo2go.com for unofficial drivers. Just follow their instructions for getting them setup.

 

Its cause you are running vista. Nvidia hasnt made good enuff drivers for vista yet im affraid. If you install windows xp you will notice that you run everything smooth all settings on . I have the toshiba p105-s9722 and run everything smooth, you have the same specs as me.

2ghz core2duo.
7900gs.
2048mb ram.
200gig hdd.

I am running dual boot but i game in xp and as soon as vista's gaming performance is good enuff ill just run vista. So trust me on this cause i had the same issue that you play a game then it like jet laggs and go smooth and then again...

 

That is almost the same spec's as me except I only have the Core Duo, not the Core 2 Duo and I had very similar problems. That is why I went back to XP Pro.

 

Do anyone know if the problem still on because we are on Oct now, because I want to know because I thinking buy one P105-S9337 or the X205-S9349, if not installing XP solve the problem I have a friend the have the same one with the same specs just is XP not Vista, thanks...