unepic Gaming Lag

[elbow_sock]

i am using a toshiba satellight A210, running windows xp. and i enjoy playing League of legends. Usually when i play lol, it stays at a constant 26ish fps. but recently i have been staying at 26fps, and then it seems to need to buffer or a few seconds at 9fps. this is not just with lol, its the same kinda way with minecraft and simple internet flash games.

 

[fmanks]

has your computer got a graphics card.
I just got one and all my games work like magic

 

[elbow_sock]

i do not believe so... its a laptop, but it used to work just fine and now for some reason it doesnt :S

 

[Couriant]

if you don't have a graphics card, you wouldn't see anything... just saying...

As to laptops, they are not generally good for gaming. Do you notice any kind of high temperature from your laptop? Does it happen to all online games or does it happen with offline games too?

 

[fmanks]

Yeah all computers/laptops need to have a graphics card to play games.
Laptops usaully have an on board graphics card, but these aren't very powerful. I've got a graphics card put into a computer box and most games work without lagging.
Really laptops should be used for stuff like researching and that kind of stuff because with games they are slow and don't have a high graphics card. I use a computer box for gaming because you can get graphics cards put in and play really fast loading non-lagging games.

I put star wars battle front 2 on a laptop it lagged and took about 2 minutes to load each level. Sometimes the game would even crash. When i put it on a computer box with a Geforce GT 520 graphics card it works like magic. Really if you want to have heaps of games on a computer don't get a laptop. Get a computer box.
Plus I'm not even sure you can install a graphics card on a laptop and if you can i would imagine it would be very expensive.

Flynt

 

[elbow_sock]

omg! that's not the point at all. the point is it used to work and now it doesn't, and i don't know how to make it work like it used too. and it happens for offline games also.

 

[Couriant]

Try looking at your temperature with a tool like speedfan and see if your video or cpu is heating up.

 

[Couriant]

Plus I'm not even sure you can install a graphics card on a laptop and if you can i would imagine it would be very expensive.

Flynt

Unless it was a customized one, most if not all laptops are not upgradable.

 

[fmanks]

Maybe its not working like it used too because you have saved lots of stuff to your laptop over time and now it takes a long time to load because theres so much save to the harddrive.

 

[elbow_sock]

i checked, and there is no overheating issues and i'm not lacking in memory because i just got a 2TB harddrive and moved a bunch of stuff to it

 

[Couriant]

Use Task Manager while running the game and see if if your CPU or RAM is being maxed out.

 

[elbow_sock]

yes, when i run and play the game the CPU Usage max's at 100% and only occasionally goes down to 97% ish

 

[Couriant]

I think that's your problem... your CPU is being used so the processing is slowed down. I would recommend closing down all non-essential programs/processes down and try again.

 

[elbow_sock]

when i checked, all i have open is the game

 

[fmanks]

when you said you didn't have anything on, did you check your internet security scanner like mirosoft security essentials because they can run scans every day without you knowing.
So you might think that you have nothing running but your game but your computer scanner might have launched an automatic scan.

Check just in case.
I might be wrong. I might not be.

Flynt