Not exactly active in the Hardware and Software forums but I'm not sure where else to go with this problem.
I have an ASUS laptop, and for the almost-three years that I've had it, it's run well... it was fairly high-end when I bought it, it runs TF2 and Minecraft and Oblivion and whatever else on close-to-maximum graphics.
Recently, though, it's started slowing down, but what baffles me is the manner in which it does so. It runs everything perfectly well, I'll be playing TF2 or something... and then, without warning, the game (and to a lesser extent, other computer processes) will slow to a crawl. Video games become all but unplayable. The strange part is that, after about five minutes, it will go away, and everything resumes as normal. It happens every time I play a game for any amount of time, and it's fairly regularly spaced.
I've checked my computer for anything I could think of that could be running... Scheduled Tasks don't seem to have anything out of the ordinary, my antivirus isn't running a scan or anything, task manager doesn't report any process getting an unreasonable amount of memory, the built-in gadget for memory usage doesn't change when the slowdown occurs.
Any ideas? I have the capacity to do a full system reinstall but I'd really prefer to avoid that if at all possible.
I have an ASUS G72, an Nvidia GTX 260M, Windows 7, 6 GB RAM. Anything else you'd like to know, ask.
Thanks!
Check temperatures
what's the best way to do that? and why is that a recent, random problem?
Download speccy [url]http://www.piriform.com/speccy[/url], Also you never know when your computer might start heating up and failing.
I did a quick test, playing Borderlands with Speccy running, and my graphics card appears to have the worst temperature problems, it's shooting over 200 degree F when the slowdown occurs (and appears to be running hot the majority of the time). CPU and the motherboard appear fine, and the hard drive is cool.
Is it normal for graphics cards to suddenly start having a problem with overheating? And are there any easy solutions?
Downclock your GPU. Some programs like to use 100% of your GPU and this'll cause it to overheat without proper cooling or downclocking.
not to continue picking, but how would I go about doing that?
[QUOTE=mutated;33420507]not to continue picking, but how would I go about doing that?[/QUOTE]
Dont dowclock it, just clean it.
There is no point in making your gpu run slower when you can just clean the heatsink or reapply the thermal paste.
Just open your case and pop out the GPU, then clean it wih compressed air (no vacuum cleaner).
If you take of the heat sink you can give it a proper cleaning but you will have to re-apply the thermal paste.
I was considering doing that either way, I'll have a look into the guts. Thanks for all the help so far, everyone, I'll be back if I need anything more!
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