Hi,
Having an issue and wondered if anyone has any ideas. Trying to do the odd bit of gaming on my work laptop. It's not amazing but plays older games fine (or did anyway). The problem is after about 5 mins in any game, the machine starts to lag really badly and becomes totally unplayable. I've been trying to work out the cause for ages and its only tonight I've managed to take it a bit further.
I've been checking procmon & procexp and didn't really spot anything until tonight when I noticed that when the issue occurs, the GPU hits around 100%. When I tab back to desktop, the GPU will stay at 100% for anything up to about 5 mins then will drop off to a 'normal' level. At this point the machine acts as normal and if I tab back to game, everything will be ok for another couple of mins until it does it again. At the point when its fine, the GPU would be running at around 30 - 60% I guess and even right up to about 90% GPU its fine. It only seems to be when it maxes out at 100% that the machine starts to chug.
According to Open Hardware Monitor, the GPU is up at around the 90c mark and CPU is around 90 - 95c. I dont think its heat as when I tab out and it starts running normally, the GPU can still show at over 90%. I could be wrong though! I don't see any clock speeds dropping off when it faults so I dont think its due to any kind of thermal cut-out but thats more of a guess than anything.
I haven't tried a rebuild yet as this machine has tons of work stuff on it that I can't really be assed to load back on so trying to see if there is any other fixes I can try.
It's scanned regularly using malwarebytes and has a paid for AV product loaded. Video drivers were updated tonight. It's usually patched up with Windows patches.
Laptop is an i5, W7 X64, 4GB + 128GB SSD. Video is an Nvidia gt330m.
My gut feeling is that this is hardware and not fixable but open to suggestions! Guessing this is the correct forum for this but apologies if not.
Thanks
Velox
Having an issue and wondered if anyone has any ideas. Trying to do the odd bit of gaming on my work laptop. It's not amazing but plays older games fine (or did anyway). The problem is after about 5 mins in any game, the machine starts to lag really badly and becomes totally unplayable. I've been trying to work out the cause for ages and its only tonight I've managed to take it a bit further.
I've been checking procmon & procexp and didn't really spot anything until tonight when I noticed that when the issue occurs, the GPU hits around 100%. When I tab back to desktop, the GPU will stay at 100% for anything up to about 5 mins then will drop off to a 'normal' level. At this point the machine acts as normal and if I tab back to game, everything will be ok for another couple of mins until it does it again. At the point when its fine, the GPU would be running at around 30 - 60% I guess and even right up to about 90% GPU its fine. It only seems to be when it maxes out at 100% that the machine starts to chug.
According to Open Hardware Monitor, the GPU is up at around the 90c mark and CPU is around 90 - 95c. I dont think its heat as when I tab out and it starts running normally, the GPU can still show at over 90%. I could be wrong though! I don't see any clock speeds dropping off when it faults so I dont think its due to any kind of thermal cut-out but thats more of a guess than anything.
I haven't tried a rebuild yet as this machine has tons of work stuff on it that I can't really be assed to load back on so trying to see if there is any other fixes I can try.
It's scanned regularly using malwarebytes and has a paid for AV product loaded. Video drivers were updated tonight. It's usually patched up with Windows patches.
Laptop is an i5, W7 X64, 4GB + 128GB SSD. Video is an Nvidia gt330m.
My gut feeling is that this is hardware and not fixable but open to suggestions! Guessing this is the correct forum for this but apologies if not.
Thanks
Velox
. I'm going to try and strip it down later to clean heat sinks and possibly redo the thermal past if thats possible (never tried it on a laptop!)
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