I haven't used my laptop to play games for a few months, mainly because I was so busy with school. After finals I started up again and noticed a lot of lag and freezing. At first I didn't know what was causing it and thought maybe it was the connection (Diablo III). Nothing I did in Video or Audio settings seemed to help. I recently got Portal 2 and noticed that the freezing only occurred right before Glados or Wheatley spoke which leads me to believe that the issue is with certain types of sound.
I've tried updating all of my drivers and that fixed nothing. I tried cleaning out my fans thinking it was a heat problem, nope. Yesterday I factory reset my computer, still having the same problem. Now I think it must be my sound card, but I'm no computer genius and I would like a second opinion. Please help, I don't want to spend money on something that might not fix my problem.
Specs:
Graphics Chipset ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Core Clock in MHz 625 MHz
Memory Clock in MHz 1000 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth in GByte/s 64.0 GByte/s
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q740 @ 1.73GHz, 1730 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processors
I've tried updating all of my drivers and that fixed nothing. I tried cleaning out my fans thinking it was a heat problem, nope. Yesterday I factory reset my computer, still having the same problem. Now I think it must be my sound card, but I'm no computer genius and I would like a second opinion. Please help, I don't want to spend money on something that might not fix my problem.
Specs:
Graphics Chipset ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Core Clock in MHz 625 MHz
Memory Clock in MHz 1000 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth in GByte/s 64.0 GByte/s
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q740 @ 1.73GHz, 1730 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processors