T410s Optimus game performance / heat

Hello, I have a 2 year old T410s.
I'm trying to play the Diablo 3 beta. However, after a couple minutes of in-game action the game slows down to a crawl.
I have Thinkpad Fan Control running at fan state 80 (6000+ RPMs) and even so the temperature is reaching the low 90 degrees C.
I know there have been overheating issues with the T410s. Have these ever been fixed? Do I need to contact warranty support for assistance?
Thanks

Well I'm playing a game that should run on Intel HD graphics. I've had similar problems with SC2 which was an older game as well
And the temperature thing has come up while doing things such as watching netflix videos. I'm assuming that temperatures hot enough to nearly boil water aren't a commonplace sort of thing
I'm not playing Crysis or anything. You would think a $2k (at the time) computer would have some ability to use its graphics chip, no?

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T410s Optimus: Crashing/Freezing/Bugs in association with Minidock+External Displays

Hi There.
Because my new Thinkpad T410s 2912WA6 (Optimus) and it's Bugs Features are quite time-consuming while i would need a reliable system to get things done, (that is why i spent over 1800 Euros on dock+thinkpad), i have to make it short.
1) optimus driver (nvidia/intel) crashing freezing bluescreening while docked and full hd displays over dvi attached, even still in 8.17.12.6802/8.15.10.
8.17.12.5738/8.15.10.2154 or whatever C:/SWTOOLS contains and what was installed on delivery works fine. plz fix.
2) want to see boot screen of my t410s optimus while docked on dvi display attached to dock. not possible for now. plz fix.
3) i guess docking station is designed to free some space on my desk --> dock + thinkpad far away from desk --> want to wake thinkpad up by pressing a key on my usb wireless keyboard attached to dock --> does not work --> pain in my back, pain in my mind.
plz fix.
okay...maybe too short, here some more detailed information:
1) Most annoying bug is the new always everything crashing nvidia optimus driver. As discussed in many other threads, there are rough problems with high DPC, freezes, blue screens. For me, i could identify nvlddmkm.sys as source of high DPC, while i had no time or not the knowledge to investigate on freezes or bluescreens.
In Fact: My T410s, bought in november 2010 was working fine, and i had no problems aswell as i started using a mini dock plus series 3 in combination with 2 Full HD 24'' Displays on the 2 DVI Ports on the Minidock.
In March 2011, Lenovo Update Software installed an update on the Graphics Driver (this may not mean the Driver Update was released at this date, i just ran the Update Software for the first time) was installed, the corresponding line in the Installation Protocol is:
"Thinkpad Video Features[NVIDIA NVS 3100M Optimus] for Windows 7 64bit | 8.17.12.5738/8.15.10.2202"
Interestingly i think the Nvidia driver version-nr didnt change, while the intel hd driver-nr was 8.15.10.2154 before.
From that day on, with increasing frequency, win7 started to freeze, in random situations but almost always while using it docked with 1 or 2 24" displays attached on DVI, nearly never when undocked. Aswell i just saw a black screen when switching youtube videos to full screen, same issue described by other users. The Flash-fullscreen issue was fixed after installing 8.17.12.6802, inoffically posted by Jamez in another thread. However, the freezing continued and i got a blue screen everytime i sent my T410s to Standby Mode while docked, no problem undocked.
After that, i luckily found out that under C:\SWTOOLS all drivers thet were installed on delivery can be found. I installed the "old" nvidia and intel hd drivers, since that, THANK THE LORD, no freezing anymore, everything works fine.
What i want to tell here: For me its ok to use these old drivers for the rest of my life and i dont have any motivation to give any grahpics driver update another chance, but i guess there are other users out there, struggling with this issues so you might better send them working drivers for optimus/nvidia systems.
2) an annoying fact aswell, and after searching google and this forum for "t410(s) optimus boot display" i dont believe that this is an individual error for me that can be resolved by recovery or similiar suicide attempts. Short and crisp: it is impossible to see the boot screen on my external Displays when Thinkpad is docked and Optimus is activated.
Of course, there is a BIOS setting, allowing me to select the Boot Display, and it proudly tells me i can selected "Digital 1/Digital 2" for the Dock-DVI Ports, but when selecting this Option, i only have the choice between VGA, Internal, and HDMI (Digital on Thinkpad). No Digital 1, no Digital 2. As others told me, Digital 1/2 can be selected as soon as you switch from "optimus" to "descrete". But guess what, i bought a optimus system so i want to use it. I hope this can be fixed by a new BIOS-Version or any other kind of update.
3) obviously, it is not possible to wake up a sleeping and docked t410s remotely, especially by wireless keyboard. First thing is, of course, i DONT want to attach the usb keyboard receiver directly to the thinkpad/yellow usb port. If i do so, i dont need a docking station anymore because i have this docking station for fast undocking without removing extra cables. Second interesting thing: Despite of my wish to have no cables directly attached to my thinkpad, i tried it on the yellow usb slot. my usb receiver was working (blinking) while thinkpad was in standby mode, but nevertheless, it didnt wake up on pressing keyboard/mouse. i have set the right settings in device manager.
So, excuse my bad english, im from germany so it is quite hard for me to write down all this in english. I would appreciate comments from other users, experiencing the same problems/bugs, aswell as what lenovo staff has to say about it. thanks for your attention.

ThinkMIke/Lenovo staff:
Did you ever solve the problem? I am experiencing something similar. Somewhat similar hardware setup: T410 w/ optimus + Minidock 3 + two external monitors (using DVI and VGA ports); laptop closed. Long ago, I "bit the bullet" and plugged wireless keyboard/mouse dongle into laptop USB port to enable waking from sleep via keybaord/mouse...painful, but used to suffice; would not work with dongle plugged into Minidock. More recently, I have been fighting Optimus bugs that cause my system to freeze every ten minutes or so. Recently tried switching off Optimus in BIOS. This eliminates the freezes, but now my system cannot be woken from sleep at all, and once "sleeping" eventually shuts down. (In fact, the system doesn't seem to really sleep...the fan seems to continue to run.) This problem now persists even if I turn Optimus back on in BIOS...I seem to have moved the system to a new and different unstable state. Any insights?
Thanks!
Eric
Moderator edit: Removed unneccesary quote of previous post.

[Solved] Asus laptop, Optimus NVIDIA card and heat

Hello everyone,
I got myself a laptop a few weeks ago and until now everything seemed to work okay. I set up Bumblebee for Optimus and could run Heroes of Newerth without problems. Recently I updated the drivers, and when I ran the game everything went laggy and soon thereafter (seconds), before the game even fully loaded, the computer turned off due to overheating. This is when I put my hand on the side of the keyboard (where there's some aluminum) and nearly burnt my hand!
There doesn't seem to be any permanent damage, but how can I be sure?
I reinstalled everything graphics-related and it seems to work now. I must have not updated all the packages properly from the AUR.
I've never paid attention to the temperature, and I've been looking at it now; is 96--99 °C normal with a game running for a few minutes? I check it with `acpi -V`.
The specs of the machine are:
Model ASUS K53SV
Intel i7-2670 @ 2.20 GHz
Nvidia GT540M
8 GiB RAM
500 GB 7200 RPM disk
(Edit) Some further clarfications:
A week ago, I don't think the machine got this hot. And that's after a few hours of ingame time. Maybe an update did this? Also, nvidia-settings reports that the card temperature during gaming is about 90 °C. Again, no idea what the normal temperature is.
The temperatures already rise when in the ingame menu and practically stay that way constantly. Is there some "bad" programming afoot that needlessly stresses the machine?
(Edit)
The CPU temperatures don't go crazy if I run the game with the onboard Intel video card. CPU load may be caused by copying the data from one X server to the other because of Optimus. But I don't see this being so heavy (99 °C heavy).
(Solution)
Aha! I installed the 'nvidia' package from the official repositories, which replaced 'nvidia-bumblebee', and this solved my issues. Now everything runs ingame at a stable 70-ish degrees Celsius. I also removed the kernel option pcie_aspm=force, but I don't think that did anything.
Last edited by Nanthiel (2012-03-27 17:52:59)

Thanks for the reply, you're rigth Lone_wolf , the nvidia driver works, installed directly from pacman.
The ENGT 430 is just a GT 430 with different look from the outside.
However lspci reports
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)
So is the same card different look
Solved!

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Welcome to  Discussions,
They can get hot in Summer, but if it ever gets to the point of overheating it will go into a coma until it cools down again.
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The whirring sounds like your fan spinning into high speed. They can be quite noisy compared to normal fan speed.
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On really hot days, which to me means over 40 degrees C in Australia, I have a fan blowing over the computer. Not practical for a laptop outdoors, but I don't try and push them too hard on those really hot days.

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My mac heats up on normal apps like watching youtube videos on chrome. If this was to happen, this did not happen until now. Also, while playing light 1-10 megabytes games my mac heats up to 80 degrees celsius (176f). This did not happen until today.

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When I play game under BootCamp Window 7, my fan becomes very loud.
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Hi,I Bought Recently a Lenovo G510 (About Weeks) When I Start Playing Games,The Left Side Of The laptop Become Hot And It Start Blowing Hot Air out Of It.(I Was Playing Call Of Duty 4) .is It A Hardware Failure Or What?Please Help Me

Hi Thewolverine95,
Welcome to Lenovo forums
As I understood that you are facing the issue with the system heating when playing game in your Lenovo G510 laptop.
As you have mentioned that the system heats when you are playing game, this is due to the graphics card issue, as the graphics in the game is higher than the system.
As some of the games require high end graphics, if the graphics in the system is lesser than the game the system heats up, try with other games.
Try to upgrade the graphic card and check for the issue. Also try to update the graphic driver and check for the issue.
Hope this helps! Do post us back for further queries.
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I'm pretty sure my MacBook has a broken fan. I can't hear it, even when the temp is measuring upwards of 180 degrees, and Fan Control is set to run it at a minimum of 3500 RPM and reads several thousand RPM, even though the fan is off. I think it broke yesterday, but previously there had been strange clicking noises. I can run it for a while when I'm not doing anything intensive (~135°–145°), but when I run BOINC or try to play games, the CPU heats up to over 180° and it powers off in a few minutes. Does anyone else have this problem? Is the fan stuck, or did a wire come loose, or is the fan motor broken?

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I have a new W500. If I run it at 100% CPU on both cores (either through a benchmark or a game), it slowly heats up to 95C CPU temperature then cuts the CPU clock speed. (Core 2 CPU's are supposed to do this when they overheat). The problem is worse on either the minidock or the full dock that standing alone. Ambient temperature is 23C and airflow is fine.
Lenovo has checked the machine and claims this is normal. It does not seem right to me.
Has anyone else checked the temperature of their W500 when running a full load?

There is an application called TP Fan Control (Think Pad Fan Control) made by a dude with the alias troubadic. It helps my computer maintain a decent temperature even under high workload! Unfortunately google doesnt work on mobile broadband so I don't have a link for you.

GRRRR 6800u overheating

well im totally fed up with the constant high temps of my msi nx6800u
today i was playing BFV and i started to get crackling and popping and texture flashes in the the game, i suspected heat so i exited the game and went straight to nvcpanel to see my temps in the mid 80's c. i know the card looses 10 degrees quickly so during the game it mustve been like mid 90's c
the ambient temp was like 63c, yes its a warm day here in melbourne.
i immediatley ripped the side off my case and returned the card to stock speeds from 425 to 400.
the card im looking at it now is idling on 65c the ambient temp with the side off my case is 43c
i dont care what anyone says but the card under load at 90c is not healthy (as i saw with the sound cracks and texture flashes)
i cant see how im gonna get this card to idle at 40 and run at 70c under load which would be perfect for me.
Im not happy with the stock cooling, ive even ripped off the heatsink and applied thermal paste again, but that didnt change the temps.
NOt happy MSI !!!

It's not MSI's fault.
You've admitted your ambient temps are high at 63c. It is unrealistic to expect any better than you are getting, without appropriate cooling in your dwelling and in your case.
Knowing that, you shouldn't even consider overclocking until you get your case cooled properly and your dwelling's ambient temps under control.
If you have to then do as Raven said and use a house fan becuase you won't get much better than that.

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