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Graphics Card slowing
tomoya-kun:
Hello. The issue is regarding a 9800m GS nvidia card.
When gaming, after maybe 5 mins, the GPU usage drops to something like 20% and the clocks drop to 400/300 as opposed to 530/800.
FPS drops to maybe 10 FPS and game is unplayable.
Any idea on why my card "downclocks" itself during gameplay?
Laptop is well ventilated in a well cooled area. Temperature during gameplay is around 85c.
TMRNetShark:
--- Quote from: tomoya-kun on March 21, 2011, 11:51:30 PM ---Hello. The issue is regarding a 9800m GS nvidia card.
When gaming, after maybe 5 mins, the GPU usage drops to something like 20% and the clocks drop to 400/300 as opposed to 530/800.
FPS drops to maybe 10 FPS and game is unplayable.
Any idea on why my card "downclocks" itself during gameplay?
Laptop is well ventilated in a well cooled area. Temperature during gameplay is around 85c.
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That is why your card is "downclocking" or under clocking it's performance. Most cards (even the bigger desktop models) do not ever really go past 80c under any condition.
Sosseres:
--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on March 22, 2011, 12:06:36 AM ---That is why your card is "downclocking" or under clocking it's performance. Most cards (even the bigger desktop models) do not ever really go past 80c under any condition.
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I agree with the diagnosis. But the fact of never passing 80c is incorrect.
For example:
http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/1258/gtx480_load.jpg
WiiLeeYum:
This one?
Not sure if its the same for laptops, but if its newly installed, did you uninstall the old driver and correctly installed the new drivers?
Maybe the game's graphics are too high for the graphic card. I'm just saying. Other than that, don't think I can help much.
tomoya-kun:
--- Quote from: WiiLeeYum on March 22, 2011, 12:53:49 AM ---This one?
Not sure if its the same for laptops, but if its newly installed, did you uninstall the old driver and correctly installed the new drivers?
Maybe the game's graphics are too high for the graphic card. I'm just saying. Other than that, don't think I can help much.
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It came stock with the laptop.
The game graphics I don't think are the issue, I'm playing CS:S and TF:2 which are not exactly demanding games.
This did not happen before... so I am wondering what may have caused this to start happening.
Looked through the logs generated by afterburner; always downclock before it hits 90c.
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