FPS drops to 1

[Great Grizzly]

Ok heres the deal, im playing HL2M and its all going smoothly, not a hitch. Then after x amount of minutes, suddenly my FPS drops to 1.

Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 1 (2600.xpsp2.040919-1003)
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.80GHz, ~600MH Memory: 1024MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
MOBILITY RADEON 9000 AGP 32.0 MB
SigmaTel Audio

any ideas?

 

[short recoil]

Virus scanner cutting in?
Some things auto come on due to internet connection from the game.

 

[Great Grizzly]

no virus scanner, or anything like that.

I have a dell laptop. I have encountered this with other games, people suggested that it was an overheating problem, but it went away on the other games only to resurface here...

i have speed fan to watch my temp, but when the FPS dropped, i looked at the temp logs and none of the 2 sensors (the one on the harddrive and umm what is ACPI mean? thats the other sensor) showed anything overheating

 

[slumber]

Do you overclock your CPU? That could be an issue.

 

[Great Grizzly]

nope.

never overclock

 

[Great Grizzly]

grrr i dont get it...

 

[Ezmartini]

Perhaps a memory leak? That's the only thing I can think of.

 

[michaelsil1]

Try giving the game some more of your system memory.

Right click the game you want to play, properties,
launch options, type: -heapsize 524288 this will give your game 500 MB of Ram instead of 64MB.

 

[Great Grizzly]

hmm thats interesting, ive gone back to playing bf1942, and i have the problem there too :flame:

 

[Beerdude26]

Does your computer still have warranty? If you do, you should put all critical files you want to keep on another computer and send it in.