I am running a dell inspiron 600m laptop, with 1gb ram, ati radeon 9000 mobility, centrino 1.3 Ghz.
My problem is that after 5-10 minutes (but it has been as long as 30minutes) i experience a massive fps (frames per second) drop.
I have done quite a bit of research and still have not found any solutions.
I looked into irq sharing problems, bc my mouse has also been malfunctioning... but even after I switched the computer to standard pc mode, it still happened...
After a clean reinstall of xp pro (using ACPI again) i have looked into many different drivers for my ati radeon card... I cannot installed the standard catalyst driver updates, as they do not support mobility cards...
In catalysts stead i have installed omegas installation, and under various drivers i have had the same problem.
Ati posted that this is a problem, and to switch back to catalyst 3.6 (or omega release of the modded catalyst 3.6 for me), and I have tried that, and that did not work...
I have tried the drivers that came with my laptop...
I used to be able to use counterstrike and all my 3d problems w/out a problem, but only in the last month or two has this problem arisen... I thought it could have been my bios update that I performed, but I have already flashed the original version, and I am still having problems.. bios updates is the only venue I have yet to fully exhaust...
I have no idea whats wrong now, and the only thing I havent looked into is that my fps drop when my harddrive spins up.....
Any leads on what you think could be wrong, or what I can do would be much apreciated...
Thanks Alot,
Blake "FatalRemedy" Edwards
My problem is that after 5-10 minutes (but it has been as long as 30minutes) i experience a massive fps (frames per second) drop.
I have done quite a bit of research and still have not found any solutions.
I looked into irq sharing problems, bc my mouse has also been malfunctioning... but even after I switched the computer to standard pc mode, it still happened...
After a clean reinstall of xp pro (using ACPI again) i have looked into many different drivers for my ati radeon card... I cannot installed the standard catalyst driver updates, as they do not support mobility cards...
In catalysts stead i have installed omegas installation, and under various drivers i have had the same problem.
Ati posted that this is a problem, and to switch back to catalyst 3.6 (or omega release of the modded catalyst 3.6 for me), and I have tried that, and that did not work...
I have tried the drivers that came with my laptop...
I used to be able to use counterstrike and all my 3d problems w/out a problem, but only in the last month or two has this problem arisen... I thought it could have been my bios update that I performed, but I have already flashed the original version, and I am still having problems.. bios updates is the only venue I have yet to fully exhaust...
I have no idea whats wrong now, and the only thing I havent looked into is that my fps drop when my harddrive spins up.....
Any leads on what you think could be wrong, or what I can do would be much apreciated...
Thanks Alot,
Blake "FatalRemedy" Edwards