Having trouble getting a smooth framerate out of my machine...

[campbell000]

Specs of my laptop:
Intel i7 Q720 (mobile) 1.60Ghz (the oldest i7, I think)
ATI Radeon 5730 (mobile)
4 GBs of Ram
Native display: 1366 x 786

Games usually hover around the 60-55 fps mark, but there are very frequent and very annoying dips and jerks in the frame rate that make it drop to about 30 or 40. This happens about 5-6 times a minute, and make games very annoying to play. Is this to be expected? And, is there anything I can do to make the framerate more consistent (perhaps at the expense of visual quality)?

[noah]

What games are you trying to play? And you could try making it 1xIR. Most games should be full speed.

[Xalphenos]

Your CPU is slow especially if turbo isn't working. Make sure your temps are good or turbo will not work. Even with that you really shouldn't expect full speed all the time but it depends on the game. What are you trying to play? If three of your cores are being used your max turbo is only 1733 mhz so LLE on thread is out of the question.

[LordVador]

(02-19-2013, 07:34 AM)campbell000 Wrote: there are very frequent and very annoying dips and jerks in the frame rate that make it drop to about 30 or 40. This happens about 5-6 times a minute, and make games very annoying to play. Is this to be expected?

Your laptop is probably overheating. Check your temperature.

(02-19-2013, 07:34 AM)campbell000 Wrote: is there anything I can do to make the framerate more consistent (perhaps at the expense of visual quality)?

No. Your CPU is too weak for most games

[noah]

Yeah I read his stats wrong . I thought he said i7 3770k. My eyes deceived me. It also feels weird responding because Campbell is my last name, and my brothers. And my brother... is a troll.

[campbell000]

(02-19-2013, 07:51 AM)Xalphenos Wrote: Your CPU is slow especially if turbo isn't working. Make sure your temps are good or turbo will not work. Even with that you really shouldn't expect full speed all the time but it depends on the game. What are you trying to play? If three of your cores are being used your max turbo is only 1733 mhz so LLE on thread is out of the question.

I was trying to play Paper Mario, SSBM, and Mario Kart DD. All three exhibited the same behavior.

And really? Too slow? What kind of temps should I be looking at? How can I decrease my temp?

[NaturalViolence]

Use realtemp or coretemp (google them) to check your temperature while running the game in dolphin. Then post the temps here.