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    Sudden drop in performance

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by bscholes, Oct 2, 2012.

  1. bscholes

    bscholes Newbie

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    Between last night and this morning (laptop was turned off) I've gone from ~40fps to 6fps on World of Warcraft.

    I though 40fps was pretty bad to begin with as I thought my laptop would be reasonably good (M14x R2) but I just put up with it. I've updated the drivers but to no avail.

    I'm not the most technical person so I'm not sure what else I can do to rectify this, so anyone help is greatly appreciated.

    Thank you.
     
    bscholes, Oct 2, 2012
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  2. adriano_banano

    adriano_banano Notebook Consultant

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    Hi. Please be sure that you are trying to play with AC conector is correctly plugged to your laptop. It might sound silly, but it happened to me once :D
     
    adriano_banano, Oct 2, 2012
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  3. bscholes

    bscholes Newbie

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    I've already made that mistake once :p

    It is indeed plugged in correctly.
     
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  4. Colpolite

    Colpolite Notebook Deity

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    Go to a place outside the main city w/o people and watch your fps via fraps and just focus on it and see if your fps stays or dips after a few minutes.

    For example, if the steady fps is 40fps and if that changes below 10fps after a few minutes then you have throttling issues. Remember do not move and just stay in 1 spot
     
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  5. bscholes

    bscholes Newbie

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    It's now working again, though I haven't done anything whatsoever.

    Thanks Colpolite, I'll do that asap.
     
    bscholes, Oct 2, 2012
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