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Hello CNET forum. This is sort of a long post so bear with me for a minute here!
So, a few days ago I started having this issue with my PC games. A severe drop in FPS has started to occur. My PC is capable, although it is a laptop, of the games I play.
My laptop is a ASUS K53SV, I have been able to play games like Battlefield 3 or Skyrim at decent frames per second. However, now, I will open a game, it will start high at around 120 frames per second, then drop to an unplayable 7-20. The graphics card it has is a Nvidia GT 540m with an Intel core i7 2630QM.
I have tried updating my drivers, re-flashing the BIOS resulted in it saying something like "the BIOS you have selected is too old for the system," Doing a system restore did not solve the issue despite changing it to a date before this happened. When I contacted Asus support, they told me to download a Driver from 2011 saying that it would solve the issue. It did not.
I've been getting pretty annoyed with this issue and I've tried so much to fix it.
Any thoughts? Thanks for reading in advance!
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(NT) Tell me how long since you used the canned air?
by R. Proffitt 
- 3/2/13 12:45 PM
In Reply to: Suddenly Low Frames Per Second by Poenage
Air
by Poenage - 3/2/13 1:01 PM
In Reply to: (NT) Tell me how long since you used the canned air? by R. Proffitt
I tried using can air yesterday. I was intrigued that that may work, however it did not.
Remember there is no single cause or cure.
by R. Proffitt - 3/2/13 2:03 PM
This is one of the banes of PC gaming. Try system restore to when it worked but if some malware is on the machine or there is a hardware issue such as a failed fan or heatsink issue, you have to find it. Today's diagnostics have failed to keep up with the machines.
What is our favorite shop tricks? Canned air, deep cleaning, replace heat sink compounds and slip in a new HDD to test if it's a busted OS.
Bob
what I've tried
by Poenage - 3/2/13 4:10 PM
In Reply to: Remember there is no single cause or cure. by R. Proffitt
aside from the deep cleaning and replacing the heat sink, i've tried all of that.
What do you guys think about a windows 7 re-install?
Why not?
by R. Proffitt - 3/2/13 5:23 PM
In Reply to: what I've tried by Poenage
If that fails you know it's hardware.
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