Guys, I need real help here. I had this N55s for almost a year. Recently, the laptop seems to heat up very fast, especially during game time. (played World of Tanks) and when the laptop heats up the fps drops to single digits. Furthermore, sometimes after closing the game, the screen flickers for some time. It usually gets back to normal after some time. This stuff happened before but right now it has gotten more frequent and the flickering time is longer.

What's wrong? Is the graphic card the problem? Or is it the thermal paste? Should I update the graphic driver or something?

Attached is a pic of the temp and fanspeed during normal case, in which no heavy programs is running.
Thanks for any help


This post has been edited by wiki47: Aug 2 2013, 05:23 PM


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Thanks for the reply, man.

I updated the driver to 320.49. And it worked great ! Thanks for the help.

FYI, the reason why I didn't update my driver was because a lot of people commented that some of the drivers cause other problems when you install them. I tried it once before (I think it was version 310 or 314 or something) and right after that the temp went up for no reason and the graphic performance actually went worse.

Glad it didn't happen with this new driver

Probably a bit off topic here....
But do any of u guys ever have problem installing STAAD pro on N55SF-352V ?
I installed it once before and it runs fine. After I'm done using it, I uninstalled it to clean up my lappy.

Now I tried ti re-install it due to work and I can't seem to get it to run.

The installation seems to run fine (by the looks of it). But whenever I double-clicked the program to launch it a pop-up comes out

I searched the internet and apparently this error is due to the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable thingy. But it seems that different programs utilize different fixes.

Anyone have any idea on how to resolve? Thanks.

P.S. : Also, anyone know how to get the benchmark of lappy's GT555M?