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Hey everyone,
TL;DR: I have small, very disruptive freezes in games (WoW, Fallout 4, Primordia, Space Quest 6) whenever something is loaded, like opening a menu for a first time or picking a dialogue option.
I own a Lenovo Ideapad Y50-70 gaming laptop which I bought when I needed a laptop for school, and seeing as how I love gaming, this laptop seemed to be pretty decent. Ignoring the other two times I had to send it back for having a defective screen, it’s been pretty stable for a year now.
However recently I’ve noticed that in many games (so far I can name WoW, Fallout 4, Primordia and Space Quest 6) that I’ll get one-second freezes whenever a sound is about to be played.
In WoW this always happens when I open my inventory, or the map, or the achievements screen. If such a menu is opened once, it won’t freeze a second time.
In Fallout 4, Primordia and SQ6, it’s whenever I click something or something which will trigger someone saying something, like a dialogue option.
I tried a selective startup, disabling all non-Microsoft services to see if that would fix it. It didn’t. I thought it might be my SSHD failing, so I ran a HDTune test twice. The first time I got a really strange reading, the second time seemed to be less bad.
(http://imgur.com/a/O9Gt5 for a screenshot of the results.)
Now, before trying an RMA, I was wondering if anyone has had any similar problems. Is there a way to pinpoint exactly what the problem is, so I have a better case when I send it back?
The specs:
(Lenovo Ideapad Y50-70)
OS: Windows 10 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i7-4720HQ @ 2.60 GHz
RAM: 8.00GB DDR3-1600 Single Channel
Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce GTX 960M
SSHD: WD WD10S21X-24R1BT0-SSHD-8GB 1TB
A list of stuff I’ve tried:
-Lowering graphics settings never helps.
-All drivers I could think up to be even slightly related are updated (except for a BIOS update), including an update, uninstall and reinstall of all my sound drivers.
-I've also scanned my SSHD using ScanDisk, I've defragmented it, I've ran System File Check, checked it with CrystalDisk.
-I've set Power Management Mode to Prefer Maximum Performance in the Nvidia Control Panel.
-Windows is on High Performance Power Plan.
-I've ran CCleaner.
-(Possibly related) I once found out that in the Power options, the Processor Power Management option for Minimum Processor State was on 100% by default. I turned it down to 5% to help with overheating issues.
Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
TL;DR: I have small, very disruptive freezes in games (WoW, Fallout 4, Primordia, Space Quest 6) whenever something is loaded, like opening a menu for a first time or picking a dialogue option.
I own a Lenovo Ideapad Y50-70 gaming laptop which I bought when I needed a laptop for school, and seeing as how I love gaming, this laptop seemed to be pretty decent. Ignoring the other two times I had to send it back for having a defective screen, it’s been pretty stable for a year now.
However recently I’ve noticed that in many games (so far I can name WoW, Fallout 4, Primordia and Space Quest 6) that I’ll get one-second freezes whenever a sound is about to be played.
In WoW this always happens when I open my inventory, or the map, or the achievements screen. If such a menu is opened once, it won’t freeze a second time.
In Fallout 4, Primordia and SQ6, it’s whenever I click something or something which will trigger someone saying something, like a dialogue option.
I tried a selective startup, disabling all non-Microsoft services to see if that would fix it. It didn’t. I thought it might be my SSHD failing, so I ran a HDTune test twice. The first time I got a really strange reading, the second time seemed to be less bad.
(http://imgur.com/a/O9Gt5 for a screenshot of the results.)
Now, before trying an RMA, I was wondering if anyone has had any similar problems. Is there a way to pinpoint exactly what the problem is, so I have a better case when I send it back?
The specs:
(Lenovo Ideapad Y50-70)
OS: Windows 10 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i7-4720HQ @ 2.60 GHz
RAM: 8.00GB DDR3-1600 Single Channel
Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce GTX 960M
SSHD: WD WD10S21X-24R1BT0-SSHD-8GB 1TB
A list of stuff I’ve tried:
-Lowering graphics settings never helps.
-All drivers I could think up to be even slightly related are updated (except for a BIOS update), including an update, uninstall and reinstall of all my sound drivers.
-I've also scanned my SSHD using ScanDisk, I've defragmented it, I've ran System File Check, checked it with CrystalDisk.
-I've set Power Management Mode to Prefer Maximum Performance in the Nvidia Control Panel.
-Windows is on High Performance Power Plan.
-I've ran CCleaner.
-(Possibly related) I once found out that in the Power options, the Processor Power Management option for Minimum Processor State was on 100% by default. I turned it down to 5% to help with overheating issues.
Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!