Alrighty, I have a pretty old Toshiba Satellite series Laptop, at the moment it's my only gaming platform as I am in the process of re-awakening a PC from a friend. The problem with it is that in every single game I play is getting fps drops which can be painful as hell when playing DOTA 2 and Team Fortress, I can get a stable 60-70 fps with it, then it will suddenly drop to 5-6 fps for around 2 seconds and then start running smoothly, this happens every 15 seconds or so, I need to fix this problem before I sell it to a friend, it's been doing this for around 3 months now and is getting progressively worse.
Specs:
4 GB 1333mhz ram
Quad Core 2.3 Ghz i5 CPU, it reaches a max 80%
Nvidia Geforce 525m
As I stated before, it ran all games perfectly at a stable 50 fps when I had the settings right.
Any idea what the problem might be?
update the graphics drivers for your video card. Go to nvidia.com to check
Already done that, around 3 days ago, I do it often.
right, is this happenig whislt plugged in to mains or on batery, if on batery that could need replacing
I don't use the battery, no point running it through the battery when I can just have it straight into the laptop.
SIDE NOTE:
It has never overheated BUT it does reach temps of up to 80-90 degrees Celsius on both the CPU and GPU.
you may have a dust build up in there
yeah,dust is a laptop-killer,you might want to take apart the laptop and clean it,also on the internet there are tons of guides on how to open your laptop
Thats what I'm thinking, is there an easy way to clean out a laptop, one where I don't have a likely chance of screwing it up.
easiest way is just to do it. open it up, pull out the mboard and take off the heat sink/fan/fing combo. wrap up the heatsink covering the thermal paste area with a plastic ziplock baggie and then hose that sucker down in the sink to get all the furry funk out of it. let it dry or blow dry it and then put it all back together.. you'll notice the difference, especially with as old as your laptop is.