Frames Per Second issue

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The game runs great, but then ill leave my laptop in its screensaver state for a period of time and i go launch the game again but now i get 7-9 fps compared with 25-30 fps. If i restart my computer it goes back to normal. is there a reason for this? here are my cpu specs

Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_qfe.070227-2300) Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Latitude D820                  
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A07
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7200  @ 2.00GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 3070MB RAM
 Page File: 1110MB used, 3335MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Please PLEASE dont tell me you have an inter graded graphics card.

What is you graphics card.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Nvida Quadro NVS 120M and ya my drivers are good. the game runs fine even when there are massive battles going on. its just that after i leave my laptop on for a while it goes into screensaver mode i get outta that and play the game it then has issues with FPS
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
that is strange... it shouldn't happen. I doubt it is hardware-related.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
i mean its not a huge deal just like to know what it is thats causeing it and if i could fix it
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Hmmm, i have same problem on my Latitude D820! Damn, it's very annoying.
I think that may be some error in nvidia driver or something..
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
It sounds like a driver issue, with the suspend function possibly?

I'd check Dell.com for drivers for your Latitude D820, and see if there's anything that can be updated. Could very well be an issue with the Bios too, it's hard to say as the change log for the most recent bios doesn't list anything and Google comes up empty.

Make sure that you have all the security fixes and updates from Windows Update.

And lastly check that you got the latest DX files, from www.microsoft.com/directx

That's mostly just tossing darts around randomly at potential culprits.