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XPS 15 9530 Graphics Problem
I just got my xps 15 a few days ago and after getting all set up I started to play games on it.
For the first several hours, everything was fine. The game Skyrim looked great and played smoothly.
But then everything went wrong. The game started moving really slow. So slow it wasn't playable. I figured it was over-heating so I quit the game and left it until the laptop was cool. I tried again and after 10 minutes I got the same problem. So I quit the game, relaunched it with the graphics at the lowest setting and played for a little while until the problem started again. At this point I downloaded some software to read the GPU temp while playing. The next time it got really slow the temp was only in the 50s. I also made sure that the latest NVidia driver was installed. Nothing seemed to help. What is going on? How can I fix this?
pfakkel
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April 26th, 2014 09:00
Just to let you know, Dell released a new Bios at the end of March. Updating to that Bios completely fixed my problem. I can play games for hours without having any ridiculous throttling. This new bios seems to help the games, GPU, and fans all work together the way they are supposed to.
Now if my GPU hits 82 degrees (which doesn't happen very much thanks the working fans) it will only throttle a little instead of down to 150MHz.
Hope this solves your problem too!
Mike Hart
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March 4th, 2014 07:00
Call Dell, get them to replace the fans/motherboard that's what fixed it for me. Doesn't overheat at all now.
I had to tell them its overheating and shutting down the GPU.
(btw running in power saver will extend the time until it overheats as a temp fix)
scrufmcgruff
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April 22nd, 2014 13:00
jolaw
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April 26th, 2014 10:00
yes this is xps , xtreme performance system not xtreme performance trouble,
is word "trouble" violates dell Terms of Service ?
jolaw
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April 26th, 2014 10:00
skyrim is demanding game , please find game not so much demanding your xtreme performance system laptopt
maybe tetris ? or pinball ?
TempD_FIXIT_MAN
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April 26th, 2014 10:00
you need to monitor your cpu temps.. what are those? skyrim is a demanding game.. and it sounds like your cpu maybe over heating and or skyrim had an update and you need to update your gpu drivers..
jolaw
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April 26th, 2014 11:00
this is recomended requirment for playing skyrim
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your almost 2000 usd notebook is meet this recomended requirment ?
scrufmcgruff
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April 27th, 2014 16:00