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mediv   02-02-2005 at 08:04:59 PM

With WoW running, my notebook occasionally goes up to very high FPS, but always drops down to 30.0. Is this a power saving feature that I can turn off?

Using a dell inspiron 9200 with radeon 9700. plenty of ram, processor power all of that.

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BigRat   02-02-2005 at 09:49:45 PM
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It could either be the speedstep or overheat.
To test it, you can set it to "always on" at the power management. If it still happens then its probably the heat.

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folken   02-03-2005 at 12:14:52 AM
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That is either powerstep or heat. Probably powerstep, I get that too when playing high graphic games. I set my laptop to run speedstep when on battery and disable it when on ac.

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