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    Cordless performance halfed, how to fix?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Jonzy, Feb 9, 2007.

  1. Jonzy

    Jonzy Notebook Guru

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    Hi, with my laptop m1710, I get a huge performance drop when I'm cordless either in 3D games and in video mode. Media Player show that I am going to 30fps and it stutters. In Corded mode I am getting 60fps.

    However, when I plug the psu in the laptop, the frame rate are still poor and I need to reboot. Plus, when I watch TV in the corded laptop, if I unplug the PSU, the frame rates remain 60 fps in WMP. It goes 60 fps until I reboot cordless or the computer put itself in away mode.

    Any recommendation to fix this issue so when I boot the computer in cordless mode I get the full performances?

    thx
     
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    abcd12345 Notebook Consultant

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  3. Jonzy

    Jonzy Notebook Guru

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    I need the performance to watch tv shows rather than playing games cordless. If I can watch my recorded tv show, I'm an happy clam. Thanks for the reference link :)
     
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    You should be able to watch tv shows cordless. Unless you recorded them in a very high quality.
     
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    Jonzy Notebook Guru

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    ok, I tried to follow the instructions from the link above and it still not giving me the full rate (30 fps) when I boot the laptop. I need to plug the laptop and reboot the system to get the full 60 fps and the fluid video streaming.
     
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    aah, fixed :)

    I`ve found the culprit, it was the Quickset settings. I guess it was forcing the batteries consumptions first instead of the Windows power shemes or the nVidia power shemes. I can now get 60 fps when playing DVDs.

    Thanks for the help !