Hi,

I was wondering if someone could help me out but I can't give you much to go on I'm afraid. When I bought this laptop all my games ran perfectly - even reasonably high-end FPSs and the like. But after a while I started to get graphical stutters.
This was only mildly annoying at first but they got worse. After the stutters games started to slow down. Now nothing works all that well. I have Neverwinter Nights which is just your usual mediocre-graphics RPG and this also stutters and slows down every time there are more than a couple of things going on on-screen. I even tried using the 32meg and 16 meg texture packs and turning the all the bells-and-whistles off - it still stutters and runs very slowly.
This is extremely frustrating. I have a decent 64 meg nvidia card and for a laptop this one is pretty powerful. A mobile phone would probably run NN better than I can.
I have tried de-frag, scan-disk, cleaned the registry, deleted a lot of old files taking up space, played around with graphics options etc. etc. but no luck. I really don't have any idea what might be causing this - It could be a lot of things I suppose. Sorry I can't give any more information. If anyone has any ideas I'd be very grateful.

how bigs your hdd? if its full to the brink its going to be very slow and choppy, plus whats your gpu nvidia what??

ferret

Also, some laptops automatically reduce the CPU speed when disconnected from the mains to save power? What stuff do you have running in the background? Virus scanners etc really take a toll on FPS especially if they are set to scan automatically when you boot up, it can take ages to do a full scan sometimes, disconnect from the internet and shut them down temporarily while you play..

AMD AthlonXP 2200+
Abit NF7-S v2.0
Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb
1GB Crucial PC2700
80GB & 120GB SATA HDD's
SB Audigy2 ZS
Enermax Noisetaker 485W

Thanks a lot for the help - I deleted a lot of old stuff and reduced the hard drive storage to about 50% of capacity instead of the 90% that is was. The game runs much better now though I still get the odd stutter. I had no idea that the amount of stuff on your hard drive could have such an effect on performance. I'll try burning a lot of it onto cd instead of leaving it on the HD in future.