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Started playing New World with my wife lately, we used to have gaming PC's in the house but now they are relegated to the office so we are making do with laptops... this wasn't great until a few tweaks I thought i'd share!
I am on a Macbook Pro 2019 with bootcamp, (5500M GPU, intel 9980H CPU).. at first the noise and heat and framerate were all bad, first to fix the noise and heat - downloaded 'Throttlestop' and disabled the turbo boost on the CPU, it's now locked to 2.2 GHZ or so and runs about 17-20 watts, this has reduced noise drastically with no noticable impact on framerate. Next the graphics ... getting about 28 FPS average at 1920 x 1200, not ideal, so I downloaded 'More power tool' and unlocked the ability to undervolt the GPU by writing the bios settings back to my registry rather than modifying the GPU itself (for warranty reasons!)... set an undervolt of 1279 Mhz / 730 mv at the top end and now my GPU is running at 40 watts, 1200-1270 MHZ compared to 500-900Mhz previously, glorious 60 FPS finally maxing out the refresh rate of the machine!!
Next the wife's laptop, it's an old MSI G63, and you literally can't use WiFi while gaming or the wifi card turns off, I can't believe they sold these things and got away with it... anyway we inherited it we were not the poor suckers who bought it... A simple job here, the GPU is a 1650 so a small overclock on the memory / core to give a little bit more performance and Throttlestop to turn off turbo boost and fan speeds are almost silent while gaming now which is unbelievable from a gaming laptop! It's a very low power machine but she's happy with her potato graphics as long as she can play her games....
I think i'll treat her this summer if I can get hold of a good laptop with an Intel CPU so i can throttlestop it and either a 6800S or 3060 GPU for graphics, would rather have a low power machine as I haven't had much luck with longevity on higher power laptops having one die recently at only 4 years of age but these low power ones seem to go on forever.
I just thought I'd share because I was quite surprised what a difference a couple of software mods can do to your whole set up (Noise / Heat / FPS!) hope it helps someone
I am on a Macbook Pro 2019 with bootcamp, (5500M GPU, intel 9980H CPU).. at first the noise and heat and framerate were all bad, first to fix the noise and heat - downloaded 'Throttlestop' and disabled the turbo boost on the CPU, it's now locked to 2.2 GHZ or so and runs about 17-20 watts, this has reduced noise drastically with no noticable impact on framerate. Next the graphics ... getting about 28 FPS average at 1920 x 1200, not ideal, so I downloaded 'More power tool' and unlocked the ability to undervolt the GPU by writing the bios settings back to my registry rather than modifying the GPU itself (for warranty reasons!)... set an undervolt of 1279 Mhz / 730 mv at the top end and now my GPU is running at 40 watts, 1200-1270 MHZ compared to 500-900Mhz previously, glorious 60 FPS finally maxing out the refresh rate of the machine!!
Next the wife's laptop, it's an old MSI G63, and you literally can't use WiFi while gaming or the wifi card turns off, I can't believe they sold these things and got away with it... anyway we inherited it we were not the poor suckers who bought it... A simple job here, the GPU is a 1650 so a small overclock on the memory / core to give a little bit more performance and Throttlestop to turn off turbo boost and fan speeds are almost silent while gaming now which is unbelievable from a gaming laptop! It's a very low power machine but she's happy with her potato graphics as long as she can play her games....
I think i'll treat her this summer if I can get hold of a good laptop with an Intel CPU so i can throttlestop it and either a 6800S or 3060 GPU for graphics, would rather have a low power machine as I haven't had much luck with longevity on higher power laptops having one die recently at only 4 years of age but these low power ones seem to go on forever.
I just thought I'd share because I was quite surprised what a difference a couple of software mods can do to your whole set up (Noise / Heat / FPS!) hope it helps someone