Crazy low FPS in games, random BSOD's and freezes.

[Skill Free Jake]

Hi,

 

I've been having some serious issues with my pc lately while trying to play games. I am using an ASUS G75 (yes, it's a laptop) with a GTX 670M and an i7-3610QM. When I try to play any game, it will work as normal for about 10 minutes (this is after a fresh startup) and will then freeze for a few seconds, return, and will have around 5-10 fps in any game I try to play, even after closing it. So far the only thing that (temporarily) fixes it is restarting. For a while it would do the same thing but end up going into a BSOD, but I have not experienced that since I did a clean graphics driver install.

 

According to my GPU and CPU monitors on my desktop everything runs fine, both while playing and not. Full usage of the GPU during playing and the clock reading is correct (the monitor might just suck, but idk).

 

I have tried everything I can think of to fix it and nothing has worked. I did a clean driver install, which helped moderately. I made sure all my power and GPU settings are correct for gaming. Full virus scans, cleanings. I removed any newly installed software. Heck, I even deleted a metric shitton of stuff from the hard drive, and nothing has helped. The last thing I want to do is format.

 

If someone could help, you would be my new best friend. If I missed any information let me know.

 

And P.S., to make it worse, one of the BSOD's deleted Fallout: New Vegas right when I was in the middle of getting back into it. :'(

 

My specs (bear with me, they were from the Best Buy description, so they might be useless)

 

ASUS Republic of Gamers G75VW 3D Gaming Laptop

Gaming Series - Yes

Processor Brand - Intel®

Processor - Intel® 3rd Generation Core™ i7

Processor Speed - 2.3GHz (with Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz)

Battery Type - 8-cell lithium-ion

Display Type - High-definition LED (1920 x 1080)

System Memory (RAM) - 12GB

System Memory (RAM) Expandable To - 16GB

Type of Memory (RAM) - DDR3

Computer Hard Drive Size - 1.5TB

Graphics - NVIDIA GTX 670M

Video Memory - 3GB GDDR5 (dedicated)

Operating System Platform - Windows

Operating System - Windows 7 Home Premium

System Version - 64-bit

Graphics Chip - NVIDIA

Drive Capacity - 1.5TB

Graphics Card - NVIDIA GTX 670M

3D-Ready - Yes

[Godlygamer23]

Have you updated your drivers at all?(the latest drivers could be causing the issues.)

[Skill Free Jake]

Have you updated your drivers at all?(the latest drivers could be causing the issues.)

Yes of course, that was this first thing I did.

 

I'm at Nvidia 326.41 drivers right now and I still had problems with the ones before.

[Breakdown]

I remember reading somewhere that someone had a similar problem.

 

They said that the CPU was set to go into a 'low power state' when idle, and that's what was causing their FPS to drop.

 

I'm not sure if this will help, just trying to contribute whatever I can.

[Godlygamer23]

What software is running in the background? @Breakdown. That could be it as well.

[Skill Free Jake]

I remember reading somewhere that someone had a similar problem.

 

They said that the CPU was set to go into a 'low power state' when idle, and that's what was causing their FPS to drop.

 

I'm not sure if this will help, just trying to contribute whatever I can.

 

 

What software is running in the background? @Breakdown. That could be it as well.

@Breakdown You might be right, it feels like something is being restricted like that.

 

@Godlygamer23 I use MSI Afterburner to OC, but other than that nothing that should conflict.

[Godlygamer23]

Try doing what Breakdown said. I take it you're overclocking then?

[Skill Free Jake]

I am, but with Afterburner, that's just the easy way. :P

Changing or turning off the OC doesn't help.

 

@Breakdown Do you remember if they found how to fix that?

[Godlygamer23]

For what Breakdown stated, go to the Control Panel, type in Power, click on Power Options. Make sure the plan is set to high performance. And just in case, go to Advanced settings, and make sure your processor is set to 100% for both minimum and maximum. And do temperatures look normal when monitoring them?

[Breakdown]

I am, but with Afterburner, that's just the easy way. :P

Changing or turning off the OC doesn't help.

 

@Breakdown Do you remember if they found how to fix that?

 

I don't remember the details exactly.

 

But I think it had to do something with changing the settings in the BIOS. Again, I can't remember fully, so I don't want to give any incorrect information, if you get where I'm coming from.

 

Maybe @Godlygamer23 can share some info?

[EFD307]

I have the G73, take some canned air and shoot some quick bursts of air into the exhaust fans it works better if the laptop is on, a cloud of dust will come shooting out. i do this every week or so to keep things clean. theres no way of taking the G73 apart to clean the fans without taking the mobo out, hopefullt they fixed that on the G75 open it up and see if u have dust bunnies. I was also experiencing a gray screen of death, i downloaded some bios fix and i havent had a problem since. good luck!

[Skill Free Jake]

@Godlygamer23 Did that and everything was set correctly and temps are normal.

 

@EFD307 I just took off the back panels the other day to clean the filters and I cleaned out as much as I could. I don't have any compressed air on me however.

 

 

I do really appreciate the help guys

[grayperview]

Try re-installing windows....that's the next step

 

I fear you may have damaged you GPU overclocking it...defiantly not recommended, overclocking laptop components.

[watts]

I would also remove all over clocks and retry installing windows. Did you monitor your temps with the OC? and is it just the GPU u OC?

if all else fails its still under 2 yr warranty right?

[colonel_mortis]

Can you upload the BSOD dump files as explained in this thread so that we can work out what crashed.

Upload the dump files from C:\Windows\Minidump in a compressed archive (.zip etc) to the forum using the "Attach Files" button under the editor. This allows us to read the error messages and diagnose the problem effectively and quickly.

[Skill Free Jake]

@super_skank @watts I have been running the same overclock for around 8 months now with no problems whatsoever, but I fear you may be right. I don't want to have to reinstall Windows but I can if it comes to that.

 

@coloner_mortis I would, but it says access is denied when I try to add it to a .zip archive. I'm not sure how to fix that.

 

Sorry for the late reply btw.

[colonel_mortis]

@super_skank @watts I have been running the same overclock for around 8 months now with no problems whatsoever, but I fear you may be right. I don't want to have to reinstall Windows but I can if it comes to that.

 

@coloner_mortis I would, but it says access is denied when I try to add it to a .zip archive. I'm not sure how to fix that.

 

Sorry for the late reply btw.

More reply options and you should be able to attach .zip files. If it doesn't seem to be working (It should work...), stick it on a file sharing site (like dropbox) and post the link.

[Skill Free Jake]

Not that, I am getting access denied when trying to put the files into a .zip archive. As if they are locked.

[colonel_mortis]

Not that, I am getting access denied when trying to put the files into a .zip archive. As if they are locked.

Oh, run it as admin.

[Skill Free Jake]

Oh, run it as admin.

Still getting it. Running as admin does nothing. This is the error message I get -

 

!   C:\Windows\Minidump\073113-51012-01.rar: Cannot open C:\Windows\Minidump\073113-51012-01.dmp

    Access is denied.

 

Same with trying to grab the whole minidump folder.

 

Idk, I guess I'll try reinstalling Windows later this weekend. I appreciate the help.

[colonel_mortis]

Still getting it. Running as admin does nothing. This is the error message I get -

 

!   C:\Windows\Minidump\073113-51012-01.rar: Cannot open C:\Windows\Minidump\073113-51012-01.dmp

    Access is denied.

 

Same with trying to grab the whole minidump folder.

 

Idk, I guess I'll try reinstalling Windows later this weekend. I appreciate the help.

Could you try copying the folder to somewhere else (you will have to give permission), then zipping it? Strange though, everything should have read access, especially when running as admin.

[Skill Free Jake]

Could you try copying the folder to somewhere else (you will have to give permission), then zipping it? Strange though, everything should have read access, especially when running as admin.

That's not working either, it's acting like I'm not an administrator on my PC (even though my account is the only one). It's allowing me to read and use some files from earlier this year, however. But they are probably irrelevant. I can't use or read the most recent dump files.  :wacko:

[colonel_mortis]

That just shouldn't be happening. Can you take ownership of the folder (see this website), or if that fails, could you boot into another OS (like bootable live linux USB) and retrieve the folder from there. It sounds like there's something badly wrong with bits of your computer, so you might end up reinstalling Windows. Your OEM product key will still be valid.

[Skill Free Jake]

That just shouldn't be happening. Can you take ownership of the folder (see this website), or if that fails, could you boot into another OS (like bootable live linux USB) and retrieve the folder from there. It sounds like there's something badly wrong with bits of your computer, so you might end up reinstalling Windows. Your OEM product key will still be valid.

That doesn't work, either. I really don't know, I think I will just re-install Windows tomorrow. This is getting ridiculous.

[Hazy125]

That doesn't work, either. I really don't know, I think I will just re-install Windows tomorrow. This is getting ridiculous.

Teamviewer works well at bypassing permissions for some reason, if you have another computer to try with. You might be able to just copy the folder to another computer