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Weird FPS lag
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2008-08-27, 01:32 PM (This post was last modified: 2008-08-27, 01:38 PM by Beloved.)
My problem:
This notebook is about 3 days new. The stuff runs fairly quickly without lag and according to other people's tests, it could also run resource consuming games decently. I haven't really tweaked with the settings on vista, but the first thing I notice on maple is that I get extremely low FPS. -- I can't even go on for more than 5 seconds without a 1-3 second frame freeze. Meanwhile, my internet is completely lagless. For a rig with 1GB of vram and 4GB of ram, it really strikes me as odd that this laptop can't handle that when other games have reportedly been fine. Here's a link to some benchmarks performed by a tech (with the same laptop). There's also some vids to show how some of the tested games run:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=273404

My speculations:
Mostly, I did a lot of googling, looking for a fix and so far, the results seem to indicate either
1. low specs running vista = laggy maple (I doubt this is my case, most laptop users with this complaint on avg had 1GB of ram)
2. Drivers not up to date. (gfx card driver is up to date. ... o_O I can't think of any others that could've caused the lag.)
3. Overheated notebooks hinder performance (doubt is the case either: the max temp on this rig is 40 C)
4. Vista and maple are naturally incapable of getting along (there must be a way around this >.>)

Personally, Vista really isn't my arena of expertise, nor are notebooks, lol. This would be the first laptop I've ever owned (mainly because I've never found a reason to need one), and also the first time I've ever used Vista. Meaning, there's probably a ton of stuff I don't know. Bottom line though, I really want to use downgrading to xp as a last option. I believe there's really only one [irrelevant] driver that isn't compatible with xp.



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lol I don't know why the analysis took in my USB drive as my HDD (that I later on unplugged and redid the analysis), but I believe it's a WD Scorpio SATA 3GB/s 8 MB Cache 5400 RPM, the model number(?) derived from the Device Manager is "WDC WD3200BEVT-22ZCT0".

Edit: a copypasta for some of the unknowns the results came up with:

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Messages In This Thread
Weird FPS lag - by Beloved - 2008-08-27, 01:32 PM
Weird FPS lag - by kleptophobia - 2008-08-27, 02:34 PM
Weird FPS lag - by Beloved - 2008-08-27, 03:39 PM
Weird FPS lag - by Yoorah - 2008-08-29, 03:28 PM
Weird FPS lag - by XTOTHEL - 2008-08-29, 06:34 PM
Weird FPS lag - by Beloved - 2008-08-30, 02:41 AM
Weird FPS lag - by butterfλi - 2008-08-30, 02:55 AM
Weird FPS lag - by Beloved - 2008-08-30, 03:35 AM
Weird FPS lag - by butterfλi - 2008-08-30, 04:32 AM
Weird FPS lag - by Beloved - 2008-08-30, 09:31 AM
Weird FPS lag - by Technolink - 2008-09-01, 12:30 AM
Weird FPS lag - by XTOTHEL - 2008-09-01, 02:07 PM
Weird FPS lag - by Beloved - 2008-09-01, 09:57 PM
Weird FPS lag - by Lyssa - 2008-09-02, 01:10 PM
Weird FPS lag - by Beloved - 2008-09-02, 01:27 PM
Weird FPS lag - by Beloved - 2008-09-05, 10:03 PM

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