Laptop Video Card Problems?

my laptop, a Gateway T-1625 came with a Radeon X1270 onboard Gpu, it can run games like Half Life 2 and CS Source Pretty smoothly but my problem with it is that every minute or so the game loses FPS dramatically. It happens with every game i have, what could be causing this? Should i reinstall the Drivers?|||Reinstalling drivers would be a good idea. You could also go into the settings and turn down some of the fine details such as anti-aliasing and vertical sync (or switch the mode from quality side to performance side)



You might also want to check if you have any background programs that are running scans/updating indexes/eating up cpu.



You can try to figure out what's sucking up all your CPU by opening up the taskmanager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC for Vista/ALT+CTRL+DEL for XP), going to the "Processes" tab, Pressing "Show Processes from All Users", and sorting by "CPU" or "Memory."



Watch for what programs use the most (Higher CPU value means more perecntage of the total cpu it is using - which usually but does not always correlate to the Memory use amount). From here, you can tell what is using up your memory and you can act accordingly by adjusting the settings of those programs, etc.



I would highly advise that you DO NOT "End Processes" randomly. Do not "End Process" unless you know exactly what program is running and how it will affect your computer.



If you need to figure out what it is, right click the Image name and select "Go to Service(s)" or "Open File Location." Again, do not delete/end any of these unless you are sure of what you are doing.|||On board GPUs are aways a bad idea. They basically share memory with the system so are aways slower. Best thing is to buy a laptop with a dedicated one. Other than that nothing much can be done. You could try investigate what happens to your memory and/or gpu performance with a test utility. or you could check this site out http://www.notebookcheck.net/Comparison-… and see how your gpu fares. But other than that there is little that you can do|||Reinstalling drivers would be a good idea. You could also go into the settings and turn down some of the fine details such as anti-aliasing and vertical sync (or switch the mode from quality side to performance side)



You might also want to check if you have any background programs that are running scans/updating indexes/eating up cpu.



You can try to figure out what's sucking up all your CPU by opening up the taskmanager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC for Vista/ALT+CTRL+DEL for XP), going to the "Processes" tab, Pressing "Show Processes from All Users", and sorting by "CPU" or "Memory."



Watch for what programs use the most (Higher CPU value means more perecntage of the total cpu it is using - which usually but does not always correlate to the Memory use amount). From here, you can tell what is using up your memory and you can act accordingly by adjusting the settings of those programs, etc.



I would highly advise that you DO NOT "End Processes" randomly. Do not "End Process" unless you know exactly what program is running and how it will affect your computer.



If you need to figure out what it is, right click the Image name and select "Go to Service(s)" or "Open File Location." Again, do not delete/end any of these unless you are sure of what you are doing.