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    Very poor gaming performance

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by idiotpilot, Nov 23, 2011.

  1. idiotpilot

    idiotpilot Notebook Evangelist

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    I have an M11x R1 and randomly today while playing LoL it took an incredibly long amount of time to load (about 10 minutes), which is nowhere near normal. Then, when I finally got into the game, I had terrible frames (around 5). It seems to be the problem with all my games, but not with any other program.

    Yes, I've got the right graphics card selected. Yes, it's on high performance battery mode. Any ideas?
     
    idiotpilot, Nov 23, 2011
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  2. Jedispooner

    Jedispooner Notebook Geek

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    As you've already pointed out the obvious that you're using the discreet 335m correctly fn+F6 then you might be suffering from the same thing that I had.

    I found a running process in my task manager that was hogging 50% of my CPU related to apple itunes, as soon as I killed it my laptop came back to life. After I realised that running processes had such an effect on my R1's performance I kept a close eye on my task manager, making sure that my CPU idles after 5 minutes from start up around 1 - 5%, just the little blips from running services.

    Check it out, it could be the same issue? :D
     
    Jedispooner, Nov 23, 2011
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  3. FahrenheitGTI

    FahrenheitGTI Notebook Consultant

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    Are you overheating? M11xs are known for collecting dust really quickly.

    If you want a quick solution if cleaning doesn't work, most likely a clean install will work.
     
    FahrenheitGTI, Nov 23, 2011
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  4. idiotpilot

    idiotpilot Notebook Evangelist

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    No unusual tasks hogging up resources and my temps seem very cool (around 40c). It just happened randomly...
     
    idiotpilot, Nov 23, 2011
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  5. bouddha

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    maybe you had an hidden scan service that started at that moment? like an antivirus?
    did it happen again?
     
    bouddha, Nov 23, 2011
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    ummm What is LoL ? laughing out loud? (abbreviations are evil!)
     
    zenstrata, Nov 23, 2011
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    league of legends xD
     
    fluffboy, Nov 23, 2011
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