CommunistTiger Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 I have 2 laptops. One runs Skyrim fine. The other is a 10 year old Dell D820.Here's the situation:Oblivion, I get 20FPS with the commands tg, tt, tlb, distant land off, med textures, all other options off at 1280x720.Skyrim, I get 30-60 FPS (location dependent) at 800x600.This old Dell has a nVidia Quadro 120M @256MB and 1768MB with H/W reserved (RAM usage). It has an intel T7600 dual-core at 2.33GHz, 4MB L2 cache. Skyrim runs fine, Steam runs fine, Need For Speed runs fine. My problem, isn't running programs under Windows 7. My problem is power management. Without the 90 watt power adapter, the GPU draws so much power while playing any game that the laptop shuts off. I can't play for even 5 minutes without the 90W adapter. The battery is brand new. I cleaned the inside (refurb), cleaned the exterior (also refurb, isopropyl and wipes), and did a 450F GPU reflow. Display runs at 1920x1200.How do I stop the laptop from shutting off? I can't load Ubuntu because of this high-power issue, Ubuntu has no native 120M drivers. I start the live installation and it crashes on desktop.I managed decent performance on a D430 1.33 dual core, but this D820 is becoming a nuisance. Skyrim runs fine. Half Life 1 and 2 both run fine. Portal runs fine. The damn thing just shuts off. I have to pull the battery and hold the power button to get it on again. Posted from my Dell Latitude D820 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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