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I've been curious about something for a while and thought I'd ask here.
I'm currently using a Dell XPS M1530 with a GeForce 8600M GT. Windows Vista, no idea what version.
I know this isn't exactly a gaming laptop, in fact it's far from it, but for the games I like to play it does just fine (WoW, eve online, etc). Some games have an odd behavior though and I want to know what causes it.
Dragon Age Origins and similar programs will run terribly on low settings, but run quite well on mid-high to high settings. However, on these higher settings very frequently the framerate will go from very smooth and flowing to very choppy. If I set the game's resolution to a lower resolution and then back up to my normal resolution, that fixes it until the next time it starts being choppy. If I alt + tab to windows and back to the game, that also fixes it.
I really don't care so much about the games because I'm one of those lame console users, but I'm wondering why alt tabbing would fix the framerate of a game that's using all my system resources, and then only temporarily?
I've been curious about something for a while and thought I'd ask here.
I'm currently using a Dell XPS M1530 with a GeForce 8600M GT. Windows Vista, no idea what version.
I know this isn't exactly a gaming laptop, in fact it's far from it, but for the games I like to play it does just fine (WoW, eve online, etc). Some games have an odd behavior though and I want to know what causes it.
Dragon Age Origins and similar programs will run terribly on low settings, but run quite well on mid-high to high settings. However, on these higher settings very frequently the framerate will go from very smooth and flowing to very choppy. If I set the game's resolution to a lower resolution and then back up to my normal resolution, that fixes it until the next time it starts being choppy. If I alt + tab to windows and back to the game, that also fixes it.
I really don't care so much about the games because I'm one of those lame console users, but I'm wondering why alt tabbing would fix the framerate of a game that's using all my system resources, and then only temporarily?
