Hello everyone!
I bought an Alienware M14x R2 ~7months ago and was really happy with my purchase, but now I have been getting FPS drops for a month and a half in every game that I play.
Let it be MetroLL/LoL/GW2/FFIX:ARR w/e. I always get 55 to 70FPS, but every 2-3min I drop to 4-15FPS. It is very frequent and very annoying.
So what I did to try and resolve the problem myself was;
- Updated my BIOS from A09 to A12
- Updated my Graphics Card drivers to 320.49
- Installed HWMonitor and ran some tests after and got these results(See below)
- Prioritised the NVIDIA GeForce 650M under NVIDIA Control Panel
After and before these changes I kept having huge FPS drops.
::::::THIS COPY PASTE IS FROM THE FIRST TEST (BEFORE THE UPDATES)::::::
Mainboard Model M14xR2 (0x000001AE - 0x00542A40)
LPCIO
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Hardware Monitors
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Hardware monitor ACPI
Temperature 0 28°C (82°F) [0xBC2] (TZ00)
Temperature 1 30°C (85°F) [0xBD6] (TZ01)
Hardware monitor Battery
Voltage 0 16.42 Volts [0x4028] (Current Voltage)
Capacity 0 64530 mWh [0xFC12] (Designed Capacity)
Capacity 1 53180 mWh [0xCFBC] (Full Charge Capacity)
Capacity 2 53180 mWh [0xCFBC] (Current Capacity)
Level 0 18 pc [0x52] (Wear Level)
Level 1 100 pc [0x64] (Charge Level)
Hardware monitor NVIDIA NVAPI
Voltage 0 0.81 Volts [0x32C] (VIN0)
Temperature 0 57°C (134°F) [0x39] (TMPIN0)
Processors
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Number of processors 1
Number of threads 8