M1730 performing 1/4th of what it used to

[Anraleth]

Over the past 8 months, having reformatted just a month ago, i've noticed exceptional slowdown in my laptop. Curious I ran a 3d benchmark with terrible results. http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3117612


My question is: What's going on?

I can barely play a game made in 2004 now whereas the PC used to run games made in 2008 just fine.

 

[Anraleth]

Over the past 8 months, having reformatted just a month ago, i've noticed exceptional slowdown in my laptop. Curious I ran a 3d benchmark with terrible results. http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3117612


My question is: What's going on?

I can barely play a game made in 2004 now whereas the PC used to run games made in 2008 just fine.

Example Games:
Mass Effect - max settings formerly 40 fps
- Currently max settings 12 fps

Mass Effect 2 - Max settings formerly 45 fps
- Currently max settings 8 FPS

 

[WR2]

Hello anraleth

Run a system temp monitoring program and see if the CPU / GPU is getting throttled down due to overheating when you're gaming.
HWiNFO32
http://download.cnet.com/HWiNFO32/3000-2094_4-10437914.html

 

[Anraleth]

Hello anraleth

Run a system temp monitoring program and see if the CPU / GPU is getting throttled down due to overheating when you're gaming.
HWiNFO32
http://download.cnet.com/HWiNFO32/3000-2094_4-10437914.html

Downloading now. I'll get results from idle and Mass Effect I at medium settings and post them later. I appreciate the help.

 

[Anraleth]

For whatever reason my text editor won't let me open the log, so here's what I saw in a nutshell after letting it idle for an hour and a half then playing Mass Effect for about 30 minutes.


CPU Core0 min 29.0 C Max 55.0 C
CPU Core1 Min 30.0 C Max 63.0 C

DIMM Min 38.0 C Max 52.0 C
Aux Min 39.0 C Max 51.0 C
Chipset min 41. 0 C Max 66.0 C

Intel GMCH min 1.5 C Max 53.8 C

HDD Min 35.0 C Max 39.0 C

GPU Temp Min 51.0 C Max 71.0 C
GPU Shader Clock Min 340 MHZ Max 1250 MHz
GPU Geometry Clock Min 170 MHZ Max 625 MHz
GPU memory clock min 100 mhz Max 800 MHZ

GPU Core Load Min 0% Max 98%
GPU Memory Controller Load Min 0% Max 63%
GPU Video Engine Load Min 0% Max 0%
GPU Memory Load Min 7.6% Max 59.9%

 

[Anraleth]

I might like to add that I recently did a clean uninstall of the 270 mobile video drivers for my Nvidia card and reverted to the 197 series drivers. That seems to have helped some.

 

[Anraleth]

Still searching for some help or insight, thank you!