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General Off Topic / Random Framerate Drop

« on: May 21, 2011, 03:24:23 pm »

Hello there soldiers, archers, and bandits of calradia,

I'm going to get right down to business. I've been having a problem that started within the last four months or so. It happens on any game nowadays, and I have lurked the internet extensively looking for an answer to the solution. It appears I'm not the only one getting this problem.

The problem is that every couple minutes or so(It's random, really and sometimes doesn't even happen for an entire day) my framerate which usually sits at 120+ on a light load(Small games) and about 70+ on a heavy load(Full Battle/Siege servers) randomly drops to about 10- FPS for absolutely no reason. I say no reason because I can be staring at an empty plain, completely away from the match, or I could be in the thick of the fighting. It makes no difference. This drop will last about 30s-1m and then everything will jump back to a normal framerate. Again, even this recovery has no actual determining factor for when it will take place.

I've tried many solutions. At first I thought it was my Asus Laptop, because one of the suggestions was that they come with multiple sound drivers and so I got rid of the extras. That didn't change anything.

I thought it might be overheating, so I bought a cooling pad. That changed nothing.

I tried messing with settings, wondering if maybe my gfx cards just have problems loading shaders, or physics, or something of that sort. No changes still.

I even tried playing windowed with a smaller resolution because someone somewhere on the webz suggested that as a possible solution. Nothing.

I've tried watching my CPU speeds and load while the drop is happening as well, and there are no changes. Nothing with temperature, either.

One thing I have noticed is that it seems to be a graphical issue of some kind, because I can alt-tab out and my FPS will be fine while using any other application, but as soon as I go back into the game, it continues the lag.

It's really hard playing a game that requires such precision timing and fast reactions as M&B or a FPS when your framerate drops to 10 or less at random intervals. I'm sure you can all acknowledge how troubling this can be.

So my question is whether anyone has experienced this problem, or has a friend who has, and whether or not they have a solution to it?

My system Specs. Or at least most of the important stuff.
As a side note: My Drivers are all up to date. I made sure to try that first.

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