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July 2nd, 2013 21:00
Huge FPS drops while gaming. Steps done yet inside.
Hello everyone!
I bought an Alienware M14x R2 ~7months ago and was really happy with my purchase, but now I have been getting FPS drops for a month and a half in every game that I play.
Let it be MetroLL/LoL/GW2/FFIX:ARR w/e. I always get 55 to 70FPS, but every 2-3min I drop to 4-15FPS. It is very frequent and very annoying.
So what I did to try and resolve the problem myself was;
- Updated my BIOS from A09 to A12
- Updated my Graphics Card drivers to 320.49
- Installed HWMonitor and ran some tests after and got these results(See below)
- Prioritised the NVIDIA GeForce 650M under NVIDIA Control Panel
After and before these changes I kept having huge FPS drops.
::::::THIS COPY PASTE IS FROM THE FIRST TEST (BEFORE THE UPDATES)::::::
Mainboard Model M14xR2 (0x000001AE - 0x00542A40)
LPCIO
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Hardware Monitors
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Hardware monitor ACPI
Temperature 0 28°C (82°F) [0xBC2] (TZ00)
Temperature 1 30°C (85°F) [0xBD6] (TZ01)
Hardware monitor Battery
Voltage 0 16.42 Volts [0x4028] (Current Voltage)
Capacity 0 64530 mWh [0xFC12] (Designed Capacity)
Capacity 1 53180 mWh [0xCFBC] (Full Charge Capacity)
Capacity 2 53180 mWh [0xCFBC] (Current Capacity)
Level 0 18 pc [0x52] (Wear Level)
Level 1 100 pc [0x64] (Charge Level)
Hardware monitor NVIDIA NVAPI
Voltage 0 0.81 Volts [0x32C] (VIN0)
Temperature 0 57°C (134°F) [0x39] (TMPIN0)
Processors
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Number of processors 1
Number of threads 8
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MnkeyJuice
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July 2nd, 2013 21:00
Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 4 (max 8)
Number of threads 8 (max 16)
Name Intel Core i7 3630QM
Codename Ivy Bridge
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz
Package (platform ID) Socket 988B rPGA (0x4)
CPUID 6.A.9
Extended CPUID 6.3A
Core Stepping E1/L1
Technology 22 nm
TDP Limit 45 Watts
Core Speed 1198.4 MHz
Multiplier x Bus Speed 12.0 x 99.9 MHz
Stock frequency 2400 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EM64T, VT-x, AES, AVX
L1 Data cache 4 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 4 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 4 x 256 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L3 cache 6 MBytes, 12-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control yes
Turbo Mode supported, enabled
Max non-turbo ratio 24x
Max turbo ratio 34x
Max efficiency ratio 12x
Min Power 36 Watts
O/C bins none
Ratio 1 core 34x
Ratio 2 cores 33x
Ratio 3 cores 32x
Ratio 4 cores 32x
TSC 2394.8 MHz
APERF 3192.7 MHz
MPERF 2396.7 MHz
NataliaatAW
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July 5th, 2013 15:00
Hi Mnkey Juice,
It does not seem to be overheating, what are your temperatures while playing, and does this happen on every game?
Have you checked if it happens only when playing games or does the computer freeze too while doing anything else?
MnkeyJuice
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July 6th, 2013 19:00
It actually is this temperature for every game I tried ! What I also did yesterday is I did a proper cleaning of my drivers and went back to the 307 if I am not mistaken. I did this for both the Intel 4000 and the Nvidia.
I didn't have the chance to try and test again after I rolled back, but I will do that tomorrow and give you a heads up.
On another note, would it be possible that the 650M does not support every drivers that GeForce Experience gives me? Since I saw that the latest one was in Beta I went back to the 314.22 (released last march) and it didn't change anything. That is the reason why I rolled back to the 307 again (december of 2012).
And no, my game never completly freeze. Only FPS drops
NataliaatAW
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July 9th, 2013 14:00
Hi,
It is possible that the drivers won't work, mostly beta versions, but you can always try them and if they don't work, rollback again.
I'll be waiting for your reply.
rayne11
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July 29th, 2013 22:00
Press FN + F5 to switch over to single gpu, The NVidia. it will raise the limit of the cards temperature. Hope it works