Getting lousy performance for games

Any help? I just tried Bulletstorm and the main screen is incredibly laggy.

 

Hmm, the 460m, which is 15% better than the 555m can handle it on maxed settings (average 40FPS on max), so the 555m should be able to handle it perfectly fine on med-high without a sweat.

Did you toy around with the settings? Your system up to date with drivers?

(stats are from a quick google search; sample pool is 6 players, since I don't own the game)

 

Well here's the issue. The game runs fine when the laptop is hooked up to the charger, but as soon as I unplug it, the frames drop by a lot and it is absolutely unplayable. I have the latest driver. I don't know, this wasn't an issue with the M11x. I was able to run any game without horrible lag. It can't be this bad when it's unplugged. Something else is up.

 

You should of mentioned that you had it unplugged in your first post, because now when people search for "M14X bulletstorm", they'll read your first post and think the M14X is crap lol

Didn't someone mention earlier in another post that there's an issue while you game unplugged? I read that somewhere but there was no resolution yet. I'd personally call Tech Support and perhaps if you find an answer, you can share it with the M14X community to help others in distress

 

Set your battery mode performance to maximum?

 

is an common issue in this lappy, i think it has to do with the optimus function, others has reported the same thing..is a shame

 

Tried that. Hmmm, this is kinda disappointing. Can it be fixed by a driver update in the future?

 

The last thing I wanna do is get on the phone with another Dell representative, lol.

 

If there's enough QQ about it

See if you can go on the Dell forums and find "Chris M" the community rep. Maybe you could send him a PM and he could forward the issue?

 

There will be no need for that, there is actually a way. I just found out. What you do is you go to your power plans, choose the high performance one(or a custom you made), then go to the change plan settings, go to change advanced power settings, scroll down to graphic processor>Gpu power state>on battery: change from balanced to max performance. I just did this and it worked perfectly. I guess maybe that's how you disable that nvidia optimus?

 

That's what i was trying to tell, my bad for not explaining. The wlan slows down if you keep it at maximum power save, and the cpu downclocks to 5% if you dont change the " on battery" plan to 100%. The power plans are the key to gaming without the plug. And this is the secret to a longer or shorter battery life as well.

 

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