MSI GX660R 15.6" freezing in games

Domzino · 20 Jul 2011 at 19:32

Hello,

I've had the MSI GX660R (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=LT-025-MS&groupid=959&catid=1828&subcat=) for a while now, and until recently, I've had no problems with it.

Lately, however, whenever I play certain games the system seems to freeze every few seconds, making the games impossible to play. These are games which ran fine before, such as Minecraft and Second Life, and still run at 60FPS. I've tried restoring my laptop to an earlier point in time, but it doesn't seem to help.

Here's a video of the problem whilst playing Minecraft, constantly holding the W key so if my character stops then it's the freezing. I took it with my camera as the problem didn't occur when using Fraps (odd). http://youtu.be/rZJoEaPUV9A

Any ideas?

EDIT: How do I move this to the Laptops thread? Sorry

Scrutinize · 20 Jul 2011 at 19:58

have you done any updates or installed new software / anti virus.

I would suggest a fresh reinstall of Win 7 and drivers first, if not it could be a heat throttling issue from a hardware fault / unsettling of heatsinks.

try the reinstall, if that doesn't fix then look to RMA.

Django x2 · 20 Jul 2011 at 21:56

If that was the case, Fraps would show the skips too.

I'd actually just update the display drivers first, then if that doesn't work, do a clean install of W7 and latest drivers.

Also, can you pin task manager on top to see if you get any memory jumps.

Domzino · 21 Jul 2011 at 11:56

Here is a screenshot of the task manager running whilst Minecraft is open, and there are no obvious memory jumps; the CPU usage does seem to drop down whenever the freezes happen though.

Also, I would do a clean install of W7 but I'm fairly sure I don't have an installation disk, nor do I want to lose all of my files.

JasK · 25 Jul 2011 at 12:20

I've got the 6GB version of the 660R as well and appear to be having (somewhat) similar issues.

I get audio breaking up and CPU spikes on win7 host processes (like network service, the ones I can't do much about). I can reproduce it on mine everytime, basically toggle the WIFI on/off and the CPU (all logical cores) will spike for about 5sec. This also happens when if anything downloads in the background. The problem is a little better when plugged in and "Turbo" is enabled, I'm guessing the overclocking will help to churn through the process hog a little quicker.

I've experimented with the WIFI and LAN drivers and at the moment the Mar 2010 Intel Wifi drivers appear to work the best, but by no means flawlessly.

Have a go and see if switching the WIFI off during gameplay alleviates your problem?

(I'm considering a complete clean start!!!)

jimblack · 3 Aug 2011 at 21:12

Hi
Have a MSI GX660r which has diplayed similar problems and has now a permenantly Black Screen when I boot up. Time to RMA after 2 months only. Was playing borderlands (glitched quite often), witcher 2 and prortal 2 no problems. I think the hard drive is fine and am hoping for as loose connection with screen/GPU.

regards