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Originally Posted by Peto
You certainly seem to have a solid handle on trouble-shooting  . I'll check back in here and see how you're doing and try to help if I can...
Hope you get it figured out!!! |
I hope so too. I use to be a professional computer tech (A+, MCSE) and my forte was troubleshooting hardware, but I am a bit out of date. Needless to say this one has me completely stumped, and I have been unable to find anyone else with a similar problem (though perhaps I'm just using the wrong key words).
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Originally Posted by Arclight
I'm still leaning to driver problem. When you updated all the drivers, did you include DirectX?
Maybe it's the graphics card itself that gets throttled, switching between 2d and 3d modes. Could try using something like Rivatuner to "lock" the clocks and/or monitor them while playing.
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I did not try updating directx 10 as the system came already with sp1 for vista 64, and has the most up to date dx10 version. Also if it was a dx problem I imagine the problem would be happening on most games. Still though I'll investigate that possibility.
Monitoring the graphics card is a good idea, and easy to do with dual monitors (laptop + lcd monitor) so I'll give that a try. I may also try cleaning out all the graphics drivers and installing the latest ones. I had tried disabling power saving mode via CCC (catalyst) but with no effect.
Anyhow I'm fairly positive its not a hardware fault, which means it's either a fault with vista directly, a driver problem, or a combination of the two (or possibly a software fault.
A lot of this is going to have to wait until next weekend though, got midterms this week and assignments, so no time to fiddle around with it till friday.
@Wolfehunter
Thanks for the links, I'll look into it later.
XP on my system works perfectly fine right now, and I'm running Vista 64 bit which can properly address all the memory my system has. However part 1 of your 'bangalore' quote may be useful.