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August 22nd, 2016 06:00

Is this normal?

In the last 24 hours I've noticed a performance drop in my laptop (or at least I think I have). It started last night when I was trying out Archeage which is an MMO and was running at extremely high FPS but stuttering and pausing even with V sync on, just to add, the same isn't happening on my wifes identical laptop. The problem is I seem to be getting occasional stuttering and short freezes now (this never happened in the first few days I had the laptop.

Dark Souls 3 for example had never froze or stuttered but now I seem to occasionally drop to 30/40 frames from 60 and pause or stutter for a brief moment.

I recorded performance over 25ish minutes on DS3 and have posted below, does anything look out of the ordinary?

Performance 1.jpg

August 22nd, 2016 09:00

I fixed it, just updated the latest Nvidia driver... sorry about that!

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