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    MSI GE60 2PE APACHE PRO - FPS / Stuttering Issues (Overheat , Speedstep Issues ? )

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by Ektoplasm, Oct 31, 2014.

  1. Ektoplasm

    Ektoplasm Newbie

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    Good evening Fellow Gamers and Adepts.

    I come to you tonight with a serious doubt , which has rattled me for a while , and after some intense troubleshooting i have came up blank.

    Here's the deal , as stated , i have a MSI GE60 2PE apache Pro

    Now , playing cs go has been the bane of my existence, i am aware there are heating issues with this laptop , but those have been fixed by a Thermal repaste, a cooling pad and the backplate removed.

    Now i have no more throttling of CPU , and GPU appears to handle fine aswell; the thing is i keep having MASSIVE lag spikes in CS:GO , and apparently they are being cause by CPU issues.

    Image for clarification .

    (Standart situation , notice the relative low fps for a old game engine)

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    After a few seconds the following occurs

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    Notice the fps drop and the CPU frequency percent alert in game
    another shot of this in console so you can see the several occurrences

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    now keep in mind that these are the lowest game settings, in Fullscreen windowed mode , if i even CONSIDER putting it on standart fullscreen i get unplayable jitterness and fps that range from 10 to 80 , all in a second.

    Now , as i have stated i have fooled around and disabled speedstep in the bios , meaning that the cpu is always at 100%, seeing i have removed the backplate , throttling is not an issue as IXT (Intel extreme tuning) can attest.
    note aswell the "active core count" spikes to 4/3 in the exact moments of the stutters, meaning that both problems should , in theory , be connected .

    Image for reference:

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    Details of IXT

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    can ANYONE give me an ideia of whats going on ? i rather enjoy playing with games with friends , but this is driving me up the wall..

    Latest NVIDIA / Laptop drivers installed ; Bios Updated and EC firmware aswell.

    Thank you for your time guys x)
     
    Ektoplasm, Oct 31, 2014
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  2. lifestrk

    lifestrk Notebook Guru

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    bump bump - i'm also experiencing this issue with my Dell XPS 14Z
     
    lifestrk, Oct 31, 2014
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