"Gaming" Laptop not so good at Gaming. Details in Thread.

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TriShredatops

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Good day chaps,

So around a year and a half ago I bought the Acer Aspire V3-571G to use for school work and play some relatively good games. At first it was performing great, above 40 FPS in games such as Bioshock Infinite and Fallout 3 which are quite big games to run and to be running them above 30 FPS, on medium graphics, is great. After having a little break from PC gaming, but still using the laptop for work and such, I found myself to be having issues. It could not do any better than 10 FPS. I shall post the important specs below:

  • CPU: Intel Core i5-3210M 2.5GHz (with Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz)
  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M with 2GB Dedicated VRAM
  • RAM: 8GB
  • HDD: 750GB

Because it's a laptop I don't know the motherboard or power supply but I researched the components posted above and found out that they are supposed to be "high-end" which at first they were performing like they are. But now, they perform like they were made in 2002.

I have posted here to ask the question, does anyone know what has happened? Obviously I have not given you enough information to know EVERYTHING, so of course, ask some questions. But I was just wondering, have I clogged the machine up with junk that has cause it to run slower? Does it just slow down after I've used it many times?

I'm not completely computer illiterate but at the same time, I'm not a genius so if you can help, please try and explain it as if you were talking to a child :p
Any help is appreciated and Thank You if you have read through this :D

Martin.
 
Jumper118 said:
A gt630m is very low end. Have you got the lastest drivers installed?
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Bottom of the "high end" section: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

Yes, latest drivers installed.

OspreyO said:
Check the temps, if its overheating maybe its throttling back. Maybe it needs cleaining out.

You playing on battery or AC?
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Playing on AC. I've also posted this on several other forums and they suggested the same thing. Unfortunately I am unable to open the laptop in any way due to it's warranty.
 
Basically it comes down to this, Updates happen. Be it graphical, a patch for the game, your operating system etc you name it. Some may unlock features or increase performance. But there is an associated cost along with those benefits and that is it requires that little bit more from your hardware each time.

Now you could simply just have a very clogged up laptop, try the usual suspects (Old files/updates, disc clean up, use CCleaner, tones of Nvidia updates etc), clean out the dust (Heat can and will have an impact on a PC's performance laptops especially as they employ more throttling than desktops do)

Use treesize free to view your HDD and see what massive files you have.

While your components might not be that out dated, Dont expect too much from the newer games coming out now. Your GeForce GT 630M is still miles better than my misses intel4000 graphics and she was playing games like WoW at 30ish FPS.
 
What's your idle CPU usage range and average? Should be zero.

What's your idle process count?

Also, you say you used to get 40fps on Bioshock. You're testing the same Bioshock, right?
If you're playing cutting edge modern games 10fps sounds about right I'm afraid.
 
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Go into power settings and set to high performance mode if it isnt on that setting already, see if that helps. Sometimes its the little things. :)
 
Its a 630M version, right?
So its weaker than normal 630.
Problem with laptops in general is that they are getting old much faster than normal pc's.
Most of the time you can only add some ram sticks or change disk to ssd/sshd in laptop, while normal pc doesn't have those limits.
An 18 month old 'gaming' laptop can be at best movie player or office machine right now, so dont expect much from it.
I had a few laptops over the last 5 years and I had to change them every 15-18 months.
 
TriShredatops said:
I recently got Batman Arkham Asylum and was going through the video settings. It says, I believe on the Anti Aliasing "Turned off on NVIDIA Control Panel" so I guess I am using the GPU.
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According to Notebookcheck the GT630M "should" Play Batman Arkham at medium settings at a res of 1366x768.

Best make sure you have "white" listed the game using the Nvidia Control panel:

1. Right click on desktop.
2. Select Nvidia Control panel.
3. Nvidia Control panel will open.
4. Select Manage 3D Settings.
5. You will see two tabs Global Settings and Program Settings.
6. Select Glabal and select High Performance NVIDIA Processor. (This effectively turns off Optimus using the NVIDIA GPU all the time).
7. Or Select Program Settings.
8. Select Add under 1.
9. Find the game you want to white list.
10. Click on Open.
11. Under 2. Select High Performance NVIDIA Processor if not already selected.
12. Select Apply.

As already stated by acme15, ensure the laptop is on "High Power" settings via the battery symbol on the BRHS of the desktop.
 
asim18 said:
What's your idle CPU usage range and average? Should be zero.

What's your idle process count?

Also, you say you used to get 40fps on Bioshock. You're testing the same Bioshock, right?
If you're playing cutting edge modern games 10fps sounds about right I'm afraid.
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CPU usage range: 1% - 5%
Process count: 114
Yes, I am testing BioShock Infinite and Fallout 3 like before.
 
kefan77 said:
are those idle or load? if load, they're still ok.

look here and set games to run on Nvidia.

http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/Nvidia.htm
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http://gyazo.com/1e1093f3c5b7e9d6626c12324743aa85

What I forgot to mention which is probably a big deal is that back when I played the games at 40+ FPS, I hadn't fiddled with the NVIDIA control panel. I only found out I was using the integrated graphics when I came back to playing. Could it be that my GPU is worse than the integrated graphics?
 
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