Extremely low FPS

scotty1105

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Awhile back I had posted a thread about my graphic issues with my hp envy 14. The problem I was encountering had to do with drops in my framerate after 10 or 20 minutes playing games. Now, up and to this point I never had any problems running games, matter of fact most games ran extremely well on this laptop. Then I updated my graphic drivers and ever since then I have had nothing but issues. (To date I have all the latest updates and drivers for my computer). I was able to live with the issues of fps drops since they were not to bad but recently it has become worse making game playing unbearable.

No matter what game I play with only 2 exceptions, I have major fps drops and lots of lag even with the settings turned way way down. This is very frustrating knowing that I was able to play high end games with no problems before. I installed HWinfo, msi afterburner and cpu-z to monitor everything when I was gaming per advice received from my older posts. I have been searching the internet it seems like forever to find a solution to this problem without having to do a factory reset. Basically when I start playing a game lets say Deadspace 3, I'll have normal frame rates 30-40, then when I start to run or pan the camera to look sharpley my fps drop to single digits. I stop and wait the system catches up fps increase to normal and I can continue. This is the cycle of hell that happens over and over throughout the course of the game. I have tried so many different things, I have cleaned out my registry of junk, uninstalled then reinstalled my graphics driver numerous times even using the ati removal tool to make sure it was a brand new install. I have tried overclocking my gpu, changing settings in my CCC, I installed game booster so I could turn off non-essential applications, when I am gaming, still no help. I thought maybe it could be temperature but I never go over 80'C. I have a hard drive of 640GB that at the moment has 150GB of free space, so it can't be enough space. I even upgraded my ram from 4GB to 8GB in hopes of fixing the problem but again NO JOY.

If anybody and I mean anybody has any suggestions that might help please let me know. I have come to a point where I am just lost with this whole thing.

I have a HP Envy 14 1110nr i5-460, 8GB, 640GB HD ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 with switchable Intel graphics
 

Abdul0

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ok, im pretty sure i have the solution. First, uninstall all your graphic drivers (display ones). Then re download the drivers but this time NOT the latest ones. download the drivers which were working and install them. Then it should work. Chances are those were beta drivers which werent stable. Try downloading WHQL drivers which means that they work 100%
 

scotty1105

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Yeah I see your point BUT I had absolutely NO trouble running high end games until recently. Even though the ati 5650 is not as new an fresh as others it still can and does seem to hold its own, I mean before this mysterious bug it got.

As to the second post...I have already done that besides I do not have any beta drivers installed. The only thing I can think of is that I have installed so many games over the last year that somewhere it screwed something up,I think?