How Do I Get Rid Of FPS Drops In Games?

Hallucinogen X

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For some reason,most games on my laptop do not run at a steady FPS.I get a smooth performance around 30 FPS but the games suddenly drop to around 14 FPS then immediately rises to 30,then back to 14.

I run the games at lowest possible settings and i meet the minimum system requirements of the games so why is this happening and how do i fix it.

My Laptop is a HP Pavillion DV6 with ATI Radeon HD 6400 Graphics card,Intel core i5 2430M Processor @ 2.4Ghz with 4 GB RAM.


Things i've tried :

1.Reducing game's settings to lowest.
2.Setting game's CPU priority to high.
3.Disabled all of Windows 7's eye candy.
3.Tried disabling some cores under "set affinity".
4.Exited everything including Antivirus and even explorer.exe.
5.Tried using MSI Affterburner.
6.Cleaned all fans in laptop,placed laptop on a cooling pad,placed it in front of air conditioner so that it does not heat up.


None of these had even the tiniest effect on the game's performance.Some games run fine but the more demanding ones have these weird FPS drops.Please suggest something.
 
Solution
Add more ram to 8GB, get a SSD 120GB or larger, use only AMD drivers from the AMD web site, after uninstalling all other video drivers, and if take your laptop to laptop tech. and have new heat compound put on, while he is doing that have him clean the laptop off in the inside, since blowing out your laptop without opening it just blows the dust into the inside

lovesX79

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Add more ram to 8GB, get a SSD 120GB or larger, use only AMD drivers from the AMD web site, after uninstalling all other video drivers, and if take your laptop to laptop tech. and have new heat compound put on, while he is doing that have him clean the laptop off in the inside, since blowing out your laptop without opening it just blows the dust into the inside
 
Solution

PyjamasCat

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^Basically this.

Your laptop isn't made for intense gaming, it's more for media. If you have done everything you can to improve performance, that may be the best you can get from it. Upgrading your RAM will give a minimal performance increase, maybe 1 or 2 frames here and there, but I don't think it will help with frame drops. The best option would be to build a gaming pc or buy a better laptop, both can be costly though.
 

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