Low fps in games?

Stat1c

Stat1c

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So I've got a MSI GT780DXR laptop. It has an i7 processor, 8gb RAM and geforce 570m card.

On Skyrim, I noticed recently the framerate seemed a bit off. I was playing on the recommended settings (1080p and ultra) but according to fraps my fps was going as low as 18/19 when encountering enemies. It was generally ranging between the 20's and early 30's range. But as Skyrim supposedly has widespread issues with framerate, I put it down to the game and not my machine. Playing on high settings brought the fps up a bit.

I decided though to check fraps with BF3. To my horror (despite thinking the fps was ok) I was getting rubbish frames on that too, although not quite as bad. It was hovering around the 30 mark, though hitting the 20's often too. High wasn't a huge amount better. Medium brought it up quite a bit. Does BF 3 also have issues? Or is my laptop just *****? After all I've spent, I at least expected to run todays games easily :(:(:(
 
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Are laptop components crap compared to PC components? That's my only explanation for this.

I just put BF 3 back to default settings and it recommended pretty much medium for everything + ultra textures :/. It's about 38/39-50 with those settings.
 
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Not sure about new laptops, but the components run at lower voltages so do not get 'maaaaax' performance so that they can be ran off a battery I believe. At least thats why you won't see a desktop CPU running inside a laptop most of the time.
 
Laptops are not realy ideal for gaming, if they have good parts in they have rubbish battery life and you get charged way more.

38fps is playable and if it's recommended them I'd suggest stick with them unless you can tweak them.
 
Is there any benchmark tests you guys could recommend to check if I'm getting the performance I should be? I'm just wondering if there's something very wrong with my laptop. Other people with poorer systems seem to be getting better performance than me.

As far as I know, I should not have to be playing BF3 largely in medium settings, laptop or no laptop.

Should I overclock? There's an 'msi nvidia overclock' prog in the start menu (though it doesn't seem to open)
 
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should i overclock? I kinda wish I never bought this now. I'd no idea the 570m was such a poor card, I didn't see any mention of this anywhere
 
Apparently the MSI 780DXR is going to be replaced with a new MSI that has the 580m card, some time this month. I'm not sure is that includes the UK and possibly it would retail a lot higher than what the current model is?

Also, can anyone advise if it's a good idea to overclock
 
The 570M can have it's core voltage increased to 0.99v with bios flashing and core speeds at that point can reach 800-850mhz, that should help. Increasing the memory speed is also going to help a lot at these resolutions, getting up to 800-850 (3200-3400 DDR) should help.
 
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I get great gaming performance on my Samsung 700g7a and its 6970M, and BF3/Crysis 2 etc run very smooth at good high settings too (35-45+ depending on scene, but with BF3, most settings are on ultra, with just shadows on high. I use SSAO on occlusion.


Stsat!c, check here http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-570M.56635.0.html to see if your bemchmarks match up comparativly (Vantage should be close to 10K) when i had a 560M (a lesser card than yours) it ran quite well, but higher settings (especially in BFBC2, AvP etc really made it puff:)

My laptop performace assesment is coming from my pc in sig too. maybe the 2gig full dedicated ram on my card helps somewhat.

Anyway, try a few benches and try compare with those on the netbook charts and see how you do.

Tony
 
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