Asus N82JV Nvidia 335M Problem

I am not too technical so please bear with me. I've been having problems with this graphics card for quite some time now. Most games I try to play experience some choppy frame rates even on low settings. I figured that this was the capability of this card but I would like a second opinion because I believe there's some tweak that can boost performance.

I've recently tried the GPU utility GPU-Z, and the GPU load is always floating around 5-15%, all the while I'm playing Vindictus on low, and is almost unplayable in large battles.

Some other games I've experienced bad FPS
- Shogun 2 (large battles)
- Minecraft (view distance max)
- Fallout New Vegas (not playable on low)

I know the Nvidia control panel has its global settings on my 335M and I also add the games to the control panel with the same settings, so I don't know if it's an Optimus problem.

Anyway it's been bugging me for a while, I can post more details once I'm home.

 

This sounds like a classic case of optimus not enabling. Make sure you have the latest drivers directly from nvidia.com

NVIDIA DRIVERS 266.58 WHQL

Turn on the gpu activity monitor from the nvidia control panel and see if its turning on for games.
I have the same laptop btw and fallout new vegas was playable on high.

 

I definitely have those drivers installed. I'll be sure to check out the activity monitor.On a side note the white light does turn on when gaming, which is supposed to indicate that the 335M kicks in.

Is yours with the i5-450M? I ask because I had run a 3dmark6 test yesterday, and it choked up on the CPU tests, making me think that's what is bottlenecking the GPU or something.

 

Nvidia d3d9 perf fix at Fallout New Vegas Nexus - New Vegas mods and community

Try this for Fallout New Vegas. Worked like a charm for me.

 

I re-installed those drivers and in Vindictus there was an option for DirectX, and it was set on 8.0 I believe, so I set it to 9.0+... that gave a bit of a boost in performance, but just slightly. I get about 20FPS in town and maybe a bit less in battle, but at least it is playable now.

I will re-install Fallout and try that fix.

Oh yeah and the GPU Activity does show the game, and GPU-Z now shows 30-50% GPU Load, so at least its working, still well below what I expected.

Thanks for the help guys, any more tips would be awesome

 

Yes i have the stock i5-450. No I didn't use any of the performance fixes for vegas besides optimizing the settings. Don't listen to the light color. It's never been consistent for me.
I still think it's your drivers. You should try a clean install of the intel and nvidia.

Uninstall both the intel and nvidia drivers from the device manager. Install the newest intel HD driver first, then the nvidia driver. Make sure to restart when it prompts. Put all "global" settings to default. Only set your game to run with the card.

It also may just be a general optimization issue with your windows. Do you have a lot of background tasks, adware etc?

 

I formatted my laptop recently to start fresh so not much in the background. I'll try re-installing the drivers and report back.

Back to that GPU-Z tool, with the Load around 50% is that really saying that's 50% of this video card's output? If you were to run that tool would you be getting similar numbers or higher?

 

Re-installing drivers helped, Vindictus is a lot more playable, though it isn't perfect. Solo raids run smooth but FPS drops a bit with 2-4 other members.

I'll test with Fallout and see what's going down.

 

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