Sudden FPS drop on XP 1530

I have been reading post on this forum now for a while and I figured that if anyone may know an answer it would be this group.

I have been playing Team Fortress 2 the whole time I have had my laptop which has been about 2 months now. I always achived around 40 - 50 FPS or more while playing the game. Suddenly yesterday the game crashed and it gave me a Nvidia error message. Something about the driver.

After resterting the pc it displayed that the error was corrected. Now when i play though I get around 10-20 FPS which is a huge decrease. I tried properly reinstalling the same drivers and then the updated drivers but nothing has worked.

Anyone have any ideas what this could be?

FYI I am using the 8600M GT

thanks in advance,

 

Have you looked at trying the latest drivers from laptopvideo2go.com ? If you haven't I'd start there.

 

I have tried three different drivers, one of which was from laptopvideo2go, and all of them have done slim to nothing for my FPS. I read on another post that your power settings can effect this. Even if I have my laptop plugged in will it still use less power if its set to do just that?

 

If you are plugged in, it should not affect anything. Have you made any changes to your system lately? What are the temperatures for the GPU, maybe they are getting too high? These really are the only things I can think of for a sudden change in performance.

 

make sure that your curret power plan is set to high performance...

thats the power settings that will affect fps

 

I have it set to Dell Performance now so I will change that first thing when I get home to see if that changes anything.

My GPU idle and even game temp doesnt go above 70C or so. I have the laptop sitting on top of a Zalman NC-2000 and also moved forward for better air flow.

Nothing new has changed software or hardware wise. I am completly stumped.

 

Having the same issue - no idea why.

The laptop was fine till I reinstalled the OS - then I get the same sudden drops in FPS like you.

 

Im facing the same problem suddenly my gpu was dropping frames... and its so annoying... i formatted my laptop after that which didnt help at all. What leads me to believe that im suffering with high temperature in mu GPU.

this week i will make the XPS 1330 copper mod i hope it helps me.

some time ago i had some problems downgrading my graphics driver. i had to format.

for me your problem looks like a driver issue.. but im not got at cleaning all drivers and installing it again.. so i would advise you to format your pc

all the best

 

Crazy thing is I got this after reinstalling the Dell image to bring it back to the way I got it from dell.