Games constantly freezing/skipping frames.

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Apr 11, 2013
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Hello there.

I've recently had this problem of games 'freezing' or skipping frames whenever I play them. I own a HP Pavilion dv6-6023TX and I run most games at high settings.

My problem:
When I play games they tend to 'freeze' or skip frames. This happens more frequently when there are more 'elements' (I'm not sure of the correct term for this) in the game, such as visual effects and additional 'units'. This has happened in ALL of my games including Counter Strike 1.6, which should not be a problem at all for a laptop with these specs.

To describe visually, whenever I play a game it 'freezes' or skips frames for about 1 second before returning to normal, however this keeps going on every 3-10 seconds depending on how many 'elements' are present ('freezing' happens more frequently the more 'elements' there are). I would like to say first off that THIS IS NOT A FRAME RATE PROBLEM as the FPS constantly reports a stable 60fps using Fraps.

I have tried to resolve this problem by updating my drivers, BIOS, removing recently installed software and I'm currently thinking of re-imaging my notebook.
I ran a diagnostic earlier before writing this post and the Hard Drive DST Short Test turned up a failure. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with this problem, but I will put it in there in case.

Solutions would be highly appreciated.