MagicAndre1981

it is the temperature. The Intel GPU which is inside the CPU is not so fast and doesn't produce such heat. That's why you don't have any issues when using the Intel. I googled a bit and other users also have extreme framedrops in games because of throttling when the temperature is over 70°C. You can try to diable the Intel Turbo Boost in the BIOS, maybe this helps the reduce the temperature. Some users reported that it may help to set the max frequency to 99% in the advanced power plan options to reduce the throttling with your laptop. Also try other nVIDIA drivers.

I think this is an overheating protection. Maybe the threshold is 70°C and the laptop reduces GPCU/CPU clock and voltage to cool down.

I posted this to Allan, too: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/wptk_v4/thread/b88aa183-d3ee-4cd1-92d6-e466c07e1a2f Check this topic and make the registry changes.

no, the Idle Loop is ok. This is the system idle process you see in Process Explorer. If you dump the DPC/ISR usage you see this: So the 1st Core is used 59% by the ACPI driver. Run MSI Afterburner in background it shows how high the temps are.

ok, so I'm right. The laptop overheats and the CPU throttles which generates the ACPI issues.

can you give me the latest trace so tjhat I can look at it? The Nanoservice hangs for 49s. What is this? Do you need it? If not stop it. Also uninstall this SuperRAM tool, do you need this Advanced SystemCare and PC Tools? "PC tools" often causes issues and crashes and you are already running the Windows firewall. The PC tools damages the prefetcher completely. This generates the cache misses and slows down the boot. Also don't use a different defrag tool. Uninstall Perfect Disk and ONLY use the Windows integrated defrag tool. Also uninstall Soluto, only trust xbootmgr and not such an tool. Also uninstall C:\Program Files (x86)\PGWARE\PCBoost\PCBoost.exe. This is all crap. Uninstall all those snakeoil tools and only use your Panda AV and the Windows firewall. This is enough. After removing all tools run the optimization again.

It may also be a IRQ sharing issue. Please make a smaller trace and give it to me so that I can look deeper in it. The other one was simply too large.

According to the website http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5VVM_DH/#download you use an "ADI AD1986A" chip. Google for a newer driver. The version on the website is from 2007 and only for Vista.

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@SonofNun disable the SQLWriter service and do the other tips and run the optimization. This should really help. Reply again if this makes Windows faster. @Allan try this: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/wptk_v4/thread/b88aa183-d3ee-4cd1-92d6-e466c07e1a2f

New Hotfix: Unexpectedly slow startup or logon process in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2617858

yes, I mean the Windows included defrag tool. The prefetcher is broken, you have too many cache misses. The service UleadBurningHelper takes 6s, service PwmEWSvc takes 6.5s, the SUService takes 4.5s to start. If you don't need both, disable them. Service UNS hangs completely. Also why do you need the SQLWriter service? Why have you installed SQL Server? Also do you need all of the Lenovo tools? Check if you can stop some. The Defrag tool places the files so terrible on the HDD, that the HDD is totally busy. Don't use such crap tools. Remove the tool and check the optimization topic I linked in the first post. Install the hotfixes and run the command I provided. If this doesn't fix it, remove Norton360 and use a different AV tool. Norton is really slow.

the tool is dead. Don't use the tool any longer

it complains about missing WAIK, but I have it installed to C:\Program Files\Windows AIK and your tool only allows me to select folder from C.\Program files (x86)

do you use the Windows Defender from Win8? Try to disable it and look if you still have the high CPU/mem usage

surgery successfull, patient dead No, it was a hassle to open the large file (my 8GB were not enough. Windows had to page out 4GB). But the ACPI.sys driver is the cause. This maybe a BIOS, power plan or an overheating issue so that the CPU throttles. Try to update the BIOS, change to high performance power plan before playing and also make sure that the laptop is not to hot.

simply read hardware tests before you buy new PCs and check if the OEM includes an option to disable the "secure boot" option. If not, simply don't buy such products and buy other hardware which give you the choice to disable "secure boot".

can you compress the ETL? Try 7zip and compress it to 7z (ULTRA/LZMA2). This reduces the size a lot. Next upload the 7z file to mediafire.com

this is wired. Run xperf -stop to stop older traces. next run the xperf latency command.

which other tools do you run?

use the internal defrag tool. Run the optimization and if this doesn't improve the speed upload the compressed ETL file. @AllanFreelancer what is the starttype of the superfetch service?

this is the correct text xperf: error: NT Kernel Logger: Cannot create a file when that file already exists. (0xb7) So you already run a xperf trace or a different tools runs in background (Process Explorer, Process Hacker, Resource Monitor from Windows) which also uses ETW to display data.

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try to repair the .net frameworks with control panel->Add/remove software and install the updates again.

YOu Windows needs 2minutes to boot to the desktop and 2m59s to be booted completely timing bootDoneViaExplorer="123681" bootDoneViaPostBoot="189181" The .Net 3.0 Font Cache service also hangs for you. It takes 21s to start the service. The service TPHKSVC takes 8 s. The jhi_service, takes21 and the MSSQL Server Express takes 36s to start. I set the starttype of SQL Server to "manual/on demand" and start it if I need it in VS. So look if you need all the services. If you use a HDD (no SSD), check the link in my first post and install the hotfixes for Windows 7 and run the optimization. If this doesn't improve the boot, make a new trace and upload it.