bitterkaz

HI, Just bought myself a laptop with an athlon 3,4ghz processor and a Nvidia Geforce Fx Go 5700; Clearly, i love games. So i got a hold of all the fun i missed while having a crap computer and installed halflife 2 doom 3 and world of warcraft. I have a recurrent problem, games run perfect and its all great, until, everyonce in while, randomly, the screen flickers and the framerate drops dramatically. After a while, this reverts and the framerate comes back, but then it happens again and again. It makes it quite hard to play anything seeing as everyonce in while the gameplay is impossible. Please, someone give me a hand. I tried reinstalling drivers and all that jazz already. Bitterkaz

its running some at 800 600 and others at 1024 752, and runs them great... but then that thing kicks in... its so damn annoying. I got a laptop coz im always moving round between spain and england, and i basically needed a portable desktop.

no luck. I also tried running task manager in the background to determine the program that was activating, nothing comes on... must be something graphical...arg!

hmmm... thanks for your reply. The thing is I run the game with the task manager in the background, when the slow quicks in, i quickly switch to it, and check... yet nothing seems to have run. I even tried turning everything off, including explorer itself... but to no avail. Its strange, its like a flicker and then the game slows, for about ten seconds, then it flickers back to normal. The thing is nothing to do with intensity of gameply either, it can run smoothly through a massive gun fight and slow down in a tiny room while picking up health. I really hope someone has seen something like this... its driving me crazy... As for declocking... hmm i dont know what that is, or how i could help that?