juri Posted December 27, 2008 Report Share Posted December 27, 2008 (edited) Hey, I have a vostro 1310 core 2 duo @ 2ghz 2 gb ram 8400m gs XP pro 32bit I'm using Doc's custom drivers 180.70 The problem is, when I've played a game for some time (10-30 min, on occasion 60 min), the system slows down awfully. And the thing is, they run fine at first. I'm not playing new and very demanding games either - Stalker and Kings Bounty are the only newer games, others are - SW:Kotor, Anachronox, Mafia, Fahrenheit, Psychonauts. Hope someone can help :) Thx Edited December 27, 2008 by juri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted December 27, 2008 Report Share Posted December 27, 2008 Put RivaTuner on the background with monitoring on to check the temperatures during gaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bades Posted December 27, 2008 Report Share Posted December 27, 2008 Sounds like GPU downclocking due to high temperatures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juri Posted December 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2008 (edited) indeed, installed rivaturner and after some time playing both cpu's reach a temp. of 82-85 what can I do to prevent/fix this ? (I'm not really comfortable with opening my laptop up but do you think that dust is the only problem) Edited December 27, 2008 by juri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Marley Posted December 27, 2008 Report Share Posted December 27, 2008 Those temperatures, while not optimal, should still not cause the GPU to downclock. I would recommend using some compressed air and possibly a notebook cooler pad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juri Posted December 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2008 Thx for the replies, will try and see if it helps . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistino01 Posted December 27, 2008 Report Share Posted December 27, 2008 i would suggest cleaning the notebook from dust ... had the same prob with my old lappy MSI M677 crystal ... it was exactly the same . so i opened it and there were loads of dust inside it ... Thx , Pistino01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juri Posted December 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 well, dust wasn't the case. in fact I've never had a computer so clean from the inside before :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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