Uniqueuponhim1
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Please someone tell me there is a way I can fix this. I'm using a 6-month-old laptop with a ATi Mobility Radeon 9000 64MB video card - I know, not much, but it should still be enough to play older 3D games. It can't even run Black & White for crying out loud, and that game only requires an 8MB video card.
Here's what happens in every single 3D game I play:
I start the game, everything runs fine for about 10 minutes. Framerate is high, it appears to run perfectly smoothly, with no graphics lag whatsoever. Then BAM! The framerate drops to about 1-5 fps, depending on the game. In Shadowbane (which requires a 32MB TNT2 or better card) it's about 1 fps, L2(requires Geforce 2 or better) about 2 fps, AO about 2-3 fps(requires a "3D card with 32MB or better) and B&W about 5fps(requires a 3D 8MB card.)
After about 2 or 3 minutes of this crappy framerate, it returns to normal, all nice and happy, running perfectly smoothly for about 5 minutes when it hits again. About 1/3 of the time in any of these games, the framerate is like this. It's annoying as hell, and makes the games very difficult or impossible to play.
Every one of these games is old. Every one of these games has requirements well below what my card has. I have the latest driver, I've tried using both the older and the newer versions of it and neither seems to work. What is the problem here?
Thanks for your help
Here's what happens in every single 3D game I play:
I start the game, everything runs fine for about 10 minutes. Framerate is high, it appears to run perfectly smoothly, with no graphics lag whatsoever. Then BAM! The framerate drops to about 1-5 fps, depending on the game. In Shadowbane (which requires a 32MB TNT2 or better card) it's about 1 fps, L2(requires Geforce 2 or better) about 2 fps, AO about 2-3 fps(requires a "3D card with 32MB or better) and B&W about 5fps(requires a 3D 8MB card.)
After about 2 or 3 minutes of this crappy framerate, it returns to normal, all nice and happy, running perfectly smoothly for about 5 minutes when it hits again. About 1/3 of the time in any of these games, the framerate is like this. It's annoying as hell, and makes the games very difficult or impossible to play.
Every one of these games is old. Every one of these games has requirements well below what my card has. I have the latest driver, I've tried using both the older and the newer versions of it and neither seems to work. What is the problem here?
Thanks for your help