louis198920 Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 hey guys, it's me again, just noticed this yesterday. my laptop is starting to lag o.o lag as in the animation such as minimizing, maximizing, right clicking, you can feel the lag =/ even moving the mouse, you'll feel it's sluggish.. any idea where the problem might be at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevenxowens792 Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 1. Check active processes. (right click, start task manager, choose performance tab, click resource monitor).2. Select cpu and sort by cpu and then threads. See if anything looks strange. 3. Then choose memory tab. Do the same, sort by memory allocated. In truth, slowdowns are not always easy to diagnose. Here are some other things to think about...1. Have you installed any software, apps or games recently? If so can you un-install them and see if it does the same thing (slowdowns?)2. Try changing windows from (best appearance to best performance) and see if it does the same thing. 3. Boot into safe mode, and see if it does the same thing.the challenge like all issues is narrowing down root cause. Things that cause slowdowns are...1. Malicious apps (virus, spyware, etc...)2. Drivers (bad ones or improperly installed ones)3. Incompatible software 4. Changes to operating system (settings, etc...) Check startup now that I think about it. 5. Drive may need to be defragged.These are just off the top of my head.Keep us posted.Stevenx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louis198920 Posted July 6, 2011 Author Share Posted July 6, 2011 thanks for the reply stevenx! will check out the steps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louis198920 Posted July 6, 2011 Author Share Posted July 6, 2011 I found the source of the 'lag' xD it's the refresh rate of the screen, was poking around the nvidia control panel and came across the screen resolution page and saw the refresh rate was at 40Hz. Any idea what games might automatically changed that? o.O I have, AC, AC:BH, Black Ops, GTA IV and NBA 2K11 for now if that helps =/EDIT: forgot to mention that once I change it back to 60Hz, the 'lag' feeling is gone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevenxowens792 Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 update your intel hd 3000 driver to the latest release... Think the official alienware driver will fix it. If not you can go straight to intel to download it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louis198920 Posted July 6, 2011 Author Share Posted July 6, 2011 you mean get the driver from Dell website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gearsguy Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Lol thats what I was just about to say. It does that when you switch to battery. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardo Tjiam Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 my alienware have the same problem.... when i plug-in battery my games don't have any lag... and when i unplug the battery it's became lag... this just happend after 3weeks after i played the same game and no problem before this,.... any solution??? thx.. and sorry for bad english.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louis198920 Posted October 16, 2011 Author Share Posted October 16, 2011 hiya, I solved this problem by changing refresh rate back to 60Hz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gearsguy Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 The m14x downclocks when you go on battery because the battery capacity isnt high enough to run the i7 + 555M at full load. So, in short, you need to be plugged in to play games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 The m14x downclocks when you go on battery because the battery capacity isnt high enough to run the i7 + 555M at full load. So, in short, you need to be plugged in to play games.This could be solved by a vbios flash setting the low power clocks above their stock values but lower than max plugged in clocks... so to make battery gaming better but not beyond limits of the power supplied from the battery. A fellow M14x owner can extract their vbios... modify the values and save the new vbios... upload it here for everyone with the same gpu...etc. Or you could do it. I use RBE Editor for my ATi cards. Steven has some nice posts on gaming on battery especially good stuff about cpu... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KristoferNathan Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 Yeah, I don't know why people are saying it has anything to do with refresh rate. The newer bios limits the voltage which in turn limits the clock speed. The only way to resolve this is to flash it to an older bios or a modified version of the newer bios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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