So I've been playing today and I noticed some performance issues while playing on Dragon Valley. I tried to close what little I had opened in the background but it didn't help: from time to time my frames per second would drop to 40 or 50, and I could see some unusual bad tearing too.

I have a NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M graphic card and it performs well on medium, but today it wasn't performing as usual. So Galactic|Pegasus asked me if the Computer was hot, and hot damn, it was! So later I went ahead and disassembled my Laptop, I've cleaned the fan (I was expecting more dust than what actually came out, but well ... ) and I have re-applied the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU.


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Surprisingly it seemed like the thermal paste I had applied before was not there anymore. :'D So maybe that's why the CPU and GPU would get so hot when stressed. I hope I have applied the thermal paste correctly and I will test it in-game to see if I get those performance problems again. For the moment though it seems to go well!


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 This was taken just after the first boot so it's indeed really low;
 when the Computer runs normally I get between 42 and 45 degrees
 on the CPU cores; unfortunately with the software I use (SpeedFan
 4.49) I can't seem to get the readings from the GPU.



Staff Officer S_h_a_r_k_93 

Nice, yeah your old Thermal Paste was really cheap OEM stuff which eventually must have burnt off. You should also expect a break-in period for your new Thermal Paste before you start to see best results. Did you follow a guide for applying it correctly and which Thermal Paste did you use?

The thermal paste that contains silver I've heard is the better of them. Clean your Old Paste off very good before you apply the New paste on both the CPU & the Heatsink. A real fast fix would be to put a desktop fan blowing on your Laptop/computer. aAjoy-rig But it works.

@5tarLine Yeah I have watched many tutorials in the past, as well for disassembling my Laptop correctly. I use an old thermal paste I've bought: Cooler Master HTK-002 [specs here].

@1ARMBLINDMAN This is what I used to plug into the Laptop with an USB cord scrapped from a broken PC Joystick! All home-made baby! ahah


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The thing must be put under the back of my Laptop, after removing the battery. That's a direct soft blow of fresh air into the base of the Laptop (which must be lifted up a little bit to increase the air-flow), which cools both the desk and the base of the Laptop, thus preventing its intake fan from collecting already-hot air.

Staff Officer S_h_a_r_k_93 

okey..thats cool..i was thinking that nobody plays BF on laptop,but i see im wrong....i use laptop Sony vaio...sometimes it was realy hot..so i resolved with laptop cooler..with the led lights...looks nice woork fine...temperatur droping..and its cool air,chiling my comp....

If you do not know, try these free softs, S_h_a_r_k_93:

very, very effective !

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

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CPU-Z & GPU-Z -> Exactly what i would have recommended myself! Great lightweight tools that I've been using for years!

@ boky1122 -> I only ever played BF2 on a Desktop for a few months back when it came out around 2005/2006. Have been on a laptop for a couple of years now since i returned, also with a Cooler.

You need to be careful buying Coolers though, there is a lot of choice at similar prices but some are much better than others.

My company, Used hundreds of tubes of paste, from Radio Spares, They had space approval, They were used on thyristor stacks, and are in tornado's, and eurofighter !.

http://uk.rs-online.co...p/thermal-grease/2173835/

Or for the very best

http://uk.rs-online.co...p/thermal-grease/9092092/

@cataly63 but those are only applications that monitor the values of the CPU/GPU, right?

Staff Officer S_h_a_r_k_93 

WAIT DO NOT RELOASD WINDOWS 10 .. HOPE ThIS will do the trick !!!!Windows 10 NEEDS 3-4 UPDATES to run at it's Best... THAT MAYBE THE REASON Your dill's are not right.. Put that ATI card back in for (till you get the updates Of maybe you can download the updates faster... Then put the Better NI.. card back in with the driver update... Maybe I thought it was the fix ???.. Great luck anyway...