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sudden performance drop in laptop gpu

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Deadman Original post #1
Mar 30, 2013 at 5:15 PM
i have asus k53sm it was running all games perfectly and now suddenly every game lags horribly when i play it.
1) I have performed clean installation of latest drivers
2) the 630m gpu is showing working properly in device manager
3) deleted all the junk
4) checked the profiles in nvidia control panel
5) switched to performance mode
the strange part is the games run better with the inbuilt intel card compared to the 2GB nvidia card:-?

is my graphic card damaged?
I have not install any new software and my lappy was in the same place all the time:cry:
thetechfreak
Mar 31, 2013 at 10:41 PM
Which games don't run properly? What resolution are you playing at? Are you keeping all graphics setting on max? Are you using drivers from ASUS site? If not use them.
Also it might very well be a virus/malware problem that's keeping the cpu busy in the background. Do a updated antivirus scan.
Defragment the drives the games are in.
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Deadman #3
Apr 1, 2013 at 10:43 AM
Which games don't run properly? What resolution are you playing at? Are you keeping all graphics setting on max? Are you using drivers from ASUS site? If not use them.
Also it might very well be a virus/malware problem that's keeping the cpu busy in the background. Do a updated antivirus scan.
Defragment the drives the games are in.
everything is updated correctly and i am playing games like crysis 3, modern warfare 3, assassins creed 3,...i have completed these games and they were running perfectly before but now i have to disable and then enable gpu from device manager everytime i restart laptop to run games properly.:|..
when i disable gpu svchost.exe is killed what is it.
thetechfreak
Apr 1, 2013 at 12:28 PM
Well to know about the process: What is svchost.exe And Why Is It Running?


but I think you must read this too -> How to EASILY remove the svchost.exe virus
Hrishi
Hrishi #5
Apr 1, 2013 at 1:11 PM
Other than the Games are you able to run other tasks (CPU intensive ) fluently like earlier ???
Can you post a screenshot of the System resources from the Resource manager ?? That can help in identifying any unwanted process consuming your system resources.

Can you also check the Max values and Avg. values of the GT630m GPU from the GPUZ tool. , while running the games ???
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Deadman #6
Apr 1, 2013 at 2:59 PM
Other than the Games are you able to run other tasks (CPU intensive ) fluently like earlier ???
Can you post a screenshot of the System resources from the Resource manager ?? That can help in identifying any unwanted process consuming your system resources.

Can you also check the Max values and Avg. values of the GT630m GPU from the GPUZ tool. , while running the games ???
everything is working smoothly.have a look at the processes after restarting.
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as i clearly mentioned the only option i have is to disable and then enable gpu from device mgr so that it can perform normally
thetechfreak
Apr 1, 2013 at 7:47 PM
If you look closely at the task manager screenshot you will the that one svchost.exe that's using up 24% of the CPU doesn't have the description of "host process for windows" which makes my doubt of it being a virus malware than anything else.
Hrishi
Hrishi #8
Apr 1, 2013 at 11:03 PM
If you look closely at the task manager screenshot you will the that one svchost.exe that's using up 24% of the CPU doesn't have the description of "host process for windows" which makes my doubt of it being a virus malware than anything else.

AAaaand he has reported that when he changes to Nvidia dGPU , that svchost.exe process gets terminated. So most likely there is a good chance of malicious programms/Virus like you said.

Noteably its using the network as well , so it can be something fishy.
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Deadman #9
Apr 2, 2013 at 12:40 AM
thank y'all removed that host process which was causing trouble:-D..games are running fine now but now this thing pops up when i log on
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