Slight hangups while playing games on my laptop
While playing games I am experiencing slight hangups every so often, at random intervals. It lasts for a split second, and is just enough to be an annoyance. I've noticed when this occurs, my CPU usage drops down to 0% or near 0%, then back up to normal.
Any ideas what's going on?
Any ideas what's going on?
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* Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo processor T2500 (2.0 GHz)
* 17.0" WSXGA+ BrightView Widescreen (1680x1050)
* 256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7600
* 2.0GB DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024MB)
* 80 GB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive
* Super Multi 8X DVD+/-R/RW w/Double Layer Support
* Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
* No TV Tuner w/remote control
* 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
* Microsoft(R) Works/Money
* Genuine Windows XP Professional Backup CD
* HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope
...but i really dont think that is the issue...but it's not using the HD during the times that this happens. its while playing games and such.
I don't think you can by default - SledgeHammer got 5.1 channel sound on his by adding a new sound card.
Did you check on the hard drive per my recommendations above? It does not sound like a CPU issue to me at all.
This doesn't happen at any particular time. I see HD activity at other times and no drops occur.
All games or just certain games? Different games use your HDD to different extents. For example, I know that Oblivion uses it extensively. My wife's PC, which I just upgraded, is able to play Oblivion at about 40 FPS on average. After I installed AOE3 on the same HDD, however, she was seeing sudden random drops to under 10 FPS at different times throughout the game. It turns out that AOE3 had seriously fragmented the hard drive. I defragged the disk and Oblivion was performing at a regular steady clip again.
Another possibility is that you're overestimating the ability of the video card in that rig. It's good, but it's not enough to run every game at full settings - it takes a lot of per-game tweaking. It may be that you're experiencing FPS drops during certain times when the video card just can't handle everything that is being thrown at it.
This is occuring in all games that I play. World of Warcraft and Silk Road.
I'm not overestimating the graphics card, I have all the settings tweaked for WoW, as it is the main reason I bought the laptop to play at LAN parties, and it runs at a steady 40 - 60 FPS at all times. I just get these split second hang ups. Barely noticeable it occurs so fast, but annoying nonetheless.
I would understand the HD issue if these were HD intensive games, but they're not. So I can't seem to pinpoint the problem.
I defragged just the other day.
If none of that works, you might want to try scanning your computer for viruses or spyware. Defraging the hard drive is also a good way to increase computer speed.
Of course this could be a result of HDD or driver issues as well as CPU throttling as leo mentioned.
I would probably bet on a driver issue though, or some background program kicking in randomly, I've had similar issues with HP Desktops.
but wow always locks up for a sec if you like get to a major town or something....or is it happing to even low populated areas
playing WoW Oblivion deus ex no hang ups at all
so im either gussing your running it on battery or you got some spyware/virus already (which i hope not :X) or what background programs are u running :?
EDIT your running profesional im running Media center..thas the only dif in our hardware, and since Media center XP is based off the Profesional Version of Xp i dont see a faultin that
What are the specs of your system?
2.0 Ghz Dual Core Yohan
2gig Ram
80gig SATA HDD 5k rpm
7600 Go
its the hp dv8000t
only difeance in hardware is the fact i run Windows XP Media Center while u run XP professional
by any chance are u blocking the fans? espically the bottom 1 that i think sucks in cool air
-- It occurs more frequently when the system has recently been turned on. After running for about an hour or so, it gets warm so you'd think it'd occur more frequently then, but it doesnt.
-- I almost think it occurs when the fan speed either slows down or changes. It seems like it happens when something is going on inside the system related to temperature control. When it gets warm, the fans don't ever seem to change speed, and it doesn't seem to occur.
Nothing slows down, it just freezes up for a split second. Throttling would be slowing stuff down over an extended period of time. My issue is it freezes up for a split second, and then goes back to normal. And by split second i really do mean less then a second.