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[Haasth]

This problem is not so much related to Dragon Age: Origins, as I think it is to my laptop. I however do not know what to do about it, and previously thought this was tied only to one other game that showed these symtoms but now Dragon Age does the same.

Basically at a random given time, the game will start to go incredibly slow. As if my laptop can not handle it which should be silly, as the specifications are quite good. This will last until I completely restart the laptop, restarting the game does not solve this. Any other game I play during this time will have the same problem.

My specifications:

ASUS laptop (G71X)
6142 RAM.
Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9000 @2.00 Ghz.
Windows Vista Ultimate - 64 bit.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

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This has happened before when playing the game; "Heroes of Newerth". Now it also happened with Dragon Age: Origins. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated, I am growing tired of restarting my laptop all the time for a reason I do not understand.

Thanks in advance.

(I should add, this laptop has been bought recently completely new)

Modifié par Haasth, 05 novembre 2009 - 06:53 .

[JironGhrad]

You're not giving us a lot to work with... how do you have your settings configured? Graphics all maxed out? How much do you have running in the background?

[Haasth]

I have everything maxed out on a resolution of 1920x1200. It runs fine for that matter, the problem is very occasional if this is the same as what I have in the other game. (Only had it once so far in Dragon Age) Neither does lowering graphics change anything when I have the problem.



I have not too much running in the background. Sometimes I have Firefox running, and always MSN. That and some base programs from the laptop (Sound, etc) and also MagicDisc.

[kalniel]

Thermal throttling. Very common on laptops. Won't go away until restart or shutting down the game and leaving it for a good period (and even then it might still require a restart depending on the system).



Make sure to allow lots of airflow around the laptop - I used a special cooling base and also propped up the corners.

[Haasth]

Hmm. Well from as far as I can tell the airflow should be alright, not directly against a wall or some such. Would an external cooler perhaps help with this?

Also going to download Speedfan, as suggested to me on another forum to see if I can track down whether or not it is a thermal problem. It has also been suggested to me this could perhaps be a memory leak?

Modifié par Haasth, 06 novembre 2009 - 01:33 .

[Haasth]

I think I have found the root of the problem... But this could mean that the similar problem in Heroes of Newerth is not related to the one I had in Dragon Age: Origins.



But first I suppose these heat levels are normal?



Regular (Right after start-up, desktop):





In-game (Menu and actual game varies a tiny bit):



(Does not return to 'regular' when I exit the game)



Now I have tried out something I suspected, as the problem in Dragon Age: Origins only happened once... Apparently when I am playing the game, and I unplug my laptop from the "netpower" (So that it starts to use the power supply) the game will drop drastically in FPS. I don't think this is solely in Dragon Age: Origins. And when I replug it, it's normal again. Now the problem I had with Heroes of Neweth was different, as this also occurred when I did not unplug anything or such.

[Haasth]

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Modifié par Haasth, 06 novembre 2009 - 04:58 .