When im playing on my laptop , the cpu usage goes up to 100% then after 5 minutes of playing the game goes into a stutter? how can i fix this?
My specs are: Intel core 2 dueo 2.26ghz
4 gig Ram
Geforce 9800 gs.
I thought it was the heat, but i got a cooling pad nad that didnt help, please help
Laptop problem
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Akeru
, mars 15 2010 04:25
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Posté 15 mars 2010 - 05:58
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Do you have any other applications running in the background (i.e. Anti-virus software)? Also, what graphics settings are you running at?
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Posté 16 mars 2010 - 05:45
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im running on max, plus some more in the nvidia control panel. yes i have norton antivirus 2010, i dont know how to turn it off
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Posté 16 mars 2010 - 05:52
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its been heppening to my wow game aswell, if that helps
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Posté 16 mars 2010 - 07:09
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ME2 is very CPU intensive and in laptops, the CPU and GPU are very close to each other (sometimes they even share heatsinks/heatpipes. In my experience I noticed that the CPU heats a lot and there isn't much space inside a laptop for good airflow, especially if you have dust clutters in the places where air is supposed to flow.
Being close to the GPU and sharing the same heatsink, makes the GPU heat up as well, which, in turn, will contribute to the heat buildup in the CPU. It's a vicious cycle.
In a system such as yours, I'd say that if both the CPU and the GPU get over 85ºC then there's a serious chance that the game will start acting up.
I know you said it may not be heat-related, but please humor me and download RealTemp from here. Run it before starting the game and then go back to it when the game crashes. It records the max temps of both your CPU and GPU. This should give us further insight.
Being close to the GPU and sharing the same heatsink, makes the GPU heat up as well, which, in turn, will contribute to the heat buildup in the CPU. It's a vicious cycle.
In a system such as yours, I'd say that if both the CPU and the GPU get over 85ºC then there's a serious chance that the game will start acting up.
I know you said it may not be heat-related, but please humor me and download RealTemp from here. Run it before starting the game and then go back to it when the game crashes. It records the max temps of both your CPU and GPU. This should give us further insight.
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Posté 16 mars 2010 - 07:35
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Well, I've got a nearly identical laptop with a C2D 2.4GHz in it. I was experiencing pretty much the same problems. If you haven't cleaned the laptop for a year already, then dust in the radiators is your best bet. Cooling pads... meh. Try a huge fan.
I solved my problem by cleaning it myself. But it might be too complicated for a laptop user, so you can try blowing the dust with some sort of compressed air... thing... or just give it to a professional for cleanup.
As for maximum temperatures, 100, Celsius, is an average slowdown threshold across Core 2 Duo family. I'd say that it's 95 in your exact case. Somewhat the same might be for the videocard (70-80 would be normal opeational temperature for a an above-average mobile videocard).
Still, if you're really lazy just like me, then you'd take anything that is capable of constantly blowing air at your laptop and just leave it on at all times. It was just a big fan in my case, and the additional air dropped some 10-25 degrees, before I went on and cleaned it. (Raising the laptop higher from the table also helps. Most practical fan direction is from your back-right or back-left to the laptop, blowing hot air to the back of the laptop.)
I solved my problem by cleaning it myself. But it might be too complicated for a laptop user, so you can try blowing the dust with some sort of compressed air... thing... or just give it to a professional for cleanup.
As for maximum temperatures, 100, Celsius, is an average slowdown threshold across Core 2 Duo family. I'd say that it's 95 in your exact case. Somewhat the same might be for the videocard (70-80 would be normal opeational temperature for a an above-average mobile videocard).
Still, if you're really lazy just like me, then you'd take anything that is capable of constantly blowing air at your laptop and just leave it on at all times. It was just a big fan in my case, and the additional air dropped some 10-25 degrees, before I went on and cleaned it. (Raising the laptop higher from the table also helps. Most practical fan direction is from your back-right or back-left to the laptop, blowing hot air to the back of the laptop.)
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Posté 17 mars 2010 - 01:05
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my cpu stays at 65 degreese, but my gpu goes up to 100 degreese is that the problem?
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Posté 17 mars 2010 - 06:30
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if that's 100 degrees Celsius, then yes. 100 is far too hot. It's the temperature at which water boilsAkeru wrote...
my cpu stays at 65 degreese, but my gpu goes up to 100 degreese is that the problem?
Try to clean the heatsink and all the parts of your laptop where air is supposed to flow. If you're too uncomfortable about opening your laptop, you should go to your local geek-squad store and have them do it for you. Shouldn't be too expensive.
That's a serious teperature. If you insist on playing like that, you may end up damaging your GPU, and that will cost more than having it cleaned.
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Posté 18 mars 2010 - 05:14
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Be careful. My laptop fried high and hot in the +100'C range for both CPU and GFX when seriously intensive games were being played: Left 4 Dead, Crysis and Mass Effect 2 are some of them.
My vote without knowing more about your laptop is that it's something drawing system resources in the background which is causing your "stuttering" problem (like NAV2010...) with the temperature issue being a side problem.
You can disable Norton AntiVirus by right-clicking on the icon in your taskbar (i.e. bottom right hand corner of the screen) and choosing to disable the auto-protection. If that doesn't work, post more details and we should be able to guide you better.
Heck, I can remotely log into your system if you're _really_ desperate. But I'd prefer not to.
My vote without knowing more about your laptop is that it's something drawing system resources in the background which is causing your "stuttering" problem (like NAV2010...) with the temperature issue being a side problem.
You can disable Norton AntiVirus by right-clicking on the icon in your taskbar (i.e. bottom right hand corner of the screen) and choosing to disable the auto-protection. If that doesn't work, post more details and we should be able to guide you better.
Heck, I can remotely log into your system if you're _really_ desperate. But I'd prefer not to.
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Posté 19 mars 2010 - 11:44
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AngelFrost wrote...
My vote without knowing more about your laptop is that it's something drawing system resources in the background which is causing your "stuttering" problem (like NAV2010...) with the temperature issue being a side problem.
What? Norton can't be responsible for overheating his GPU, nor can any antivirus solution or any other software that isn't heavy on graphical processing.
It's his graphics card that's overheating, not his CPU. Acording to his post, the CPU is well within normal operating temperatures. No "background" processes can make your GPU overheat unless they work directly with graphics. And I'd hardly call 100ºC a "side problem".
ME2 is a heavy user and abuser of the processing power of your graphics card, hence the heating. And something, like dust clutters, blocking the airflow in his heatsinks is preventing the fan from doing it's job, which is to cool the 9800 down to normal operating temperatures.
You can bet your shorts that a graphics card that hits 100ºC will start to fail (hence the stuttering), if not outright fry.
Remotely logging in won't clean his heatsinks.
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Posté 01 avril 2010 - 04:42
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Tar and feather me corrected TP.
I'll remember not to post help at 4AM (local) in the future.
I'll remember not to post help at 4AM (local) in the future.
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Posté 01 avril 2010 - 10:56
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Get a can of compressed air and clean out any dust, lint, etc. My sister needs to do it with her laptop regularly even with a cooling pad. Anyways, the air cans are fun to play with. 
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Posté 02 avril 2010 - 06:06
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Get rid of Norton as it's very CPU-intensive and doesn't provide better protection than AVG Free or AntiVir Personal 10.
Personally I wipe a Laptop after purchase and install a clean copy of Windows to get rid of all the bloat that Laptop Manufacturers typically put on their machines...
Personally I wipe a Laptop after purchase and install a clean copy of Windows to get rid of all the bloat that Laptop Manufacturers typically put on their machines...
