It's possible that they just increased the boost. Most new turbo cars have a boost solenoid that's controlled by the ECU, so you can increase the boost with ECU tweaks. When I had my Subaru tuned it went from 279 whp 297 wtq to 299 whp and 339 wtq. They increased the boost 2psi and reworked the fuel/timing maps to compensate.

And more economical because they probably leaned out the air/fuel ratio, which makes more power and uses less fuel.

Welcome to the team, guys!

For entering on your own:
LFS Username: brianmcd
Race Name: CoRe.brian
Number: 87

Age:14

Thanks everyone. It feels great to be part of such a high caliber team. I've always enjoyed racing with CoRe and I'm looking forward to learning more from you guys.

S2 Name: brianmcd
Racer Name: brian
E-Mail: pm me plz
TimeZone: est
Favorite Car: xrr
TeamSpeak: (yes/no) yes
Will you be able to make it to all 4 events?: (yes/no/maybe)maybe the next 3, not sure.

Yeah it does seem to be a cooling issue. Tonight I'm going to open her up and go to town with the compressed air.

Thanks so much for your help!

~brian

Oh, and this is an alienware laptop. It runs a desktop P4, not a mobile one.

Thanks for all the help so far guys!

Thanks for the program vari.
My CPU speed does seem to be dropping when the frames drop. Throttlewatch, however, says TM1 Throttling is 0.

It appears to be dropping to about 2.9 GHz.

Anymore ideas? I think we're on to something.

Nothing seems to be hogging cpu usage when the fps goes down.

I don't think setting a limit would help if my fps drops down to 20-30 fps for a good 5-10 minutes.

I've tried playing with all programs closed except for the logitech wheel program, and it still does it.

Thanks for the help, anyone else have any suggestions?

update #2: alt tabbing doesn't make the fps go back up. must have been a coincidence, but now it's not helping.

update: alt-tabbing out and back in makes the fps go back up. so anyone have any suggestions?

Hey guys,
I've got a weird problem. When I'm racing (either single player or multiplayer) and everything is good, my fps is over 100. Randomly, though, the game will hiccup and then my fps will drop to around 30-40. It feels like there is some limit being put on my fps, because it will just sit on a certain fps and not fluctuate much. It randomly hiccups again and fixes itself. I'm running no v-sync and no fps limiter.

System specs:
3.6ghz P4
plenty of hard drive space
GeForce GO 5800 gfx card
1 gig of ram

Sometimes if I alt-tab out and close an aplication, when I get back to the game I'm at 100+fps again. I don't know if this is from closing something or from alt-tabbing. It's not cause of running out of ram though, because I'll still have >500 megs free when I do this. Any input would be great. The game isn't really playable at 30fps.

Thanks,
Brian