Runs great! After 5 minutes.. Help!

[Ross]

Hey all, recently purchased ETW and the installation went fine with no problems and finally I get to play this new game in the TW series.

Originally I had all the settings on auto which pretty much put everything on Ultra, I played for at least 5 minutes and the game just ran terribly slow, constant stutter every move I made on the campaign map (and battle map).

After this I put the settings all on low, started the game and it ran smooth..after a few minutes and it went back to being a sluggish little ****! I get a huge FPS drop from 40 to 5. I have no idea what it could be, my laptop specs seem okay to me but I like to know what you think:

Alienware M9750
Windows XP PRO SP2
Intel Core 2 CPU T7600 2.33GHz
2GB RAM DDR2
2x NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX 512MB SLi Enabled (Driver: 179.48)

Any idea's what it could be? MTW2 ran great on this, even with ETW settings on low I'd think it'd run smooth too. Thanks.

[Ross]

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[Juggernawt]

Disable SLI and give it a try, maybe?

[D.B. Cooper]

Your processor is under par, and this game is very CPU intensive.

[Ross]

Really? I would of thought it was the gfx. But even on the lowest settings.. surely is shouldn't be as bad?

Disable SLI and give it a try, maybe?

Just tried it, no luck. Was actually worse. Really puzzled to what it could be! Any chance of it being a heating problem, I know that my tempratures are well over 60...