Recent content by jay_dee_kay

Been tinkering non-stop. After clean reinstalls and toggling bios options, plus a dozen other tweaks, comp runs great. It'd be an essay to describe the issue, but it's resolved.

Idk how to mark this solved but yeah it was a bad fan

I remember a while back I enabled fan performance mode in my bios menu a while back, and the fans were very loud, but the system stayed cool. I've noticed recently the fans do not run anywhere near as fast (or loud), and now I'm having heating issues again. Other than setting cpu cooling to...

try disabling fast startup maybe... its in the additional power settings, under "change what the power button does"

could this have anything to do w a bad power supply? ive noticed my laptop is charging sometimes even though it is never unplugged

yep says 2 of 2 slots used

the game tested is on an m.2 drive, my os drive. Moved from d to C (os) drive, didnt really help. should be 2x8gb, pretty sure the manufacturer doesnt do 1x16. how would i check without cracking the case?

According to resource monitor, my cpu is at roughly 70-75% in a hi demand situation where i normally have trouble. memory usage is about 55%, disk usage peaks and drops, but seemed a little more stable than in idle for some reason. my vram usage is supposedly at about 50% according to the...

at idle w task manager: cpu 16%, memory 25%, disk supposedly at 0% at idle w resource monitor: cpu, network and mem. usage barely register on graphs, disk usage is all peaks/lows, no stability and constant activity. ill send in-game results asap, sad to say ive never used resource monitor...

I bought an Alienware M17 R2 in January, RTX 2070 max q, 16 gb ram, i7-9750h. I've noticed an awkward stutter and graphical issues while running a game. These issues are most noticeable when my pc needs to load a lot of textures, such as in a crowd setting or in a dense city. Tweaking graphics...