Hi,
I recently received my Alienware 17 which has the 780m graphics unit upgrade, running Windows 8.
I have been testing it in various games and am fairly impressed at the performance, one thing however seems to occur no matter what game I am playing Farcry 3, WoW, GTA 4, Tomb Raider etc is that I seem to get what I can only describe as a low fps spike that occurs regularly. It seems to occur no matter what quality settings / screen resolution the game is set to.
I have been watching FPS meters in the various games and it often spikes from high fps all the way down to 10-15 then back up (still rendering the same scene). I have been watching the process manager but I can't seem to spot anything that could be causing it. It has the feel of some sort of gpu throttling, just wanted to know if this is normal or if there is something I can check / change settings wise.
Anything anyone can point me at would be hugely appreciated as it is mildly frustrating!
Thanks,
James