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[mikey42087]

 Here are my laptop specs
Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU     P8700  @ 2.53GHzNVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M  Memory: 6.0 GBVRAM: 1.0GBWIndows 7, using directx 11 currently
Ok so basically, the issue with this game is that I start it up on high settings in 1152 x 864. Anti Aliasing is off. The game starts up fine, plays fine, no issues at all. Combat is smooth and the cinematic scenes are flawless for the most part. Almost always, after about 10-15 minutes of playtime it suddenly drops the fps down to about the single digits. It's still running but it responds horribly  slow and it looks like everything is happening in slow motion with a strobe light on. It doesn't appear that anything in particular triggers it since its happened during cut scenes, battle, on the inventory screen, etc. 
If I quit the game, everything else on my computer still works fine. There is no slowdown, and I don't see any visible issues. If I use it for a while or wait a while (maybe 30-45 minutes or so) and then load up the game again its the same issue all over again. Runs fine, then slows down. Same with if I reboot. But if I quit the game then immediately try to open it again, its slow from the start. 
I've had the problem for months now and games like ME2, SC2 and FO3. All run fine initially, then this happens.
I used to play WoW and this would only happen once in a blue moon. Maybe once a week (playing everyday for several hours), if that. It seems like it has gotten much worse since I stopped playing WoW and uninstalled it. Not sure if that is a coincidence or what, just throwing it out there. I haven't played WoW since so I can't tell you if that runs okay or not. 
I've tried several things. I updated the drivers to their latest version, same results. I've played with the graphical options to some degree (lowering quality, resolution, v-sync, etc) and no difference. Also someone told me it might have to do with an error during the installation. So I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and still no difference (Haven't tried it with DA2, but did with FO3 and SC2... both were retail copies and not from steam or anything). I'm losing patience and have tried searching for related issues online but I haven't found anything exactly like my issues. 
Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated!! If you need any further info, please ask! I wanna play!  

[Gorath Alpha]

The GTX260m is based on nVIDIA's G92, which was their second 8800 GT core design, although slightly faster. It cannot do Dx11, only Dx10, and it is now quite old as a design, so that "High" settings are beyond it now. It is a medium performance card now.

You haven't made the type report I prefer to deal with, so you omitted driver data, but you might do better with an older driver than with a new one.

Read the pinned message that starts with "Before anything else", and expand the information into more of what I need to work with, then I'll be able to confirm my hypothesis.

[mikey42087]

Sorry I forgot that part.

The driver for the card is 266.58.

Also, I tried playing with a much older driver originally and still had the same problem. Also, even if I put the setting on "low" on this game or several other it still happens.

[MaxPayne37]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

The GTX260m is based on nVIDIA's G92, which was their second 8800 GT core design, although slightly faster. It cannot do Dx11, only Dx10, and it is now quite old as a design, so that "High" settings are beyond it now. It is a medium performance card now.

You haven't made the type report I prefer to deal with, so you omitted driver data, but you might do better with an older driver than with a new one.

Read the pinned message that starts with "Before anything else", and expand the information into more of what I need to work with, then I'll be able to confirm my hypothesis.

Unfortunately, you are wrong, as I have a GTX 260M, and am running on High with 4xAA and 8xAF @ 720p just with SSAO off. I was able to achieve this with the 267.26 drivers. So please, be informed before you make a post about hardware that you apparently do not have.

As for mikey's issue, if it's happening in other games, it's sounding like an overheating problem.

Modifié par MaxPayne37, 11 mars 2011 - 02:55 .

[Gorath Alpha]

It's all right here, uninformed one:

http://www.notebookc...0M.14559.0.html

[MaxPayne37]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

It's all right here, uninformed one:

http://www.notebookc...0M.14559.0.html

I am aware that the GTX 260M is based on the 8800GT. That does not dismiss the fact that I can play on High, playably, not "stuck" on Medium.

[JironGhrad]

MaxPayne37 wrote...

Gorath Alpha wrote...

It's all right here, uninformed one:

http://www.notebookc...0M.14559.0.html

I am aware that the GTX 260M is based on the 8800GT. That does not dismiss the fact that I can play on High, playably, not "stuck" on Medium.

"Playably" is such a vague word. How about some actual framerate data? Perhaps, you don't mind playing at 25 fps and he does mind...

[mikey42087]

Well in case anyone is wondering, I did end up fixing it. I needed to update some windows 7 components and now it runs like a dream. And yes, for all of you bickering... I'm running it on 'High' settings. I just played for a couple hours and had no slow-down at all. So yeah, it can run on high despite what the article says.

[MaxPayne37]

JironGhrad wrote...

MaxPayne37 wrote...

Gorath Alpha wrote...

It's all right here, uninformed one:

http://www.notebookc...0M.14559.0.html

I am aware that the GTX 260M is based on the 8800GT. That does not dismiss the fact that I can play on High, playably, not "stuck" on Medium.

"Playably" is such a vague word. How about some actual framerate data? Perhaps, you don't mind playing at 25 fps and he does mind...

mikey42087 wrote...

Well in case anyone is wondering, I did end up fixing it. I needed to update some windows 7 components and now it runs like a dream. And yes, for all of you bickering... I'm running it on 'High' settings. I just played for a couple hours and had no slow-down at all. So yeah, it can run on high despite what the article says.

^ This.

Don't judge something just based on age or specs, base it on experience as well.