Help LOW FPS with Skyrim on L702x

Hi guys. I have a Dell L702X with the following specs:

i7 2720QM CPU
GT555M
1080P 3D screen
Blu Ray
8GB RAM
A12 bios

Latest nVidia 285.62 drivers installed. I have had the laptop for a few months and recently decided to try out Skyrim.

I had a go at the default settings which pretty much set all to high at 1080. Looked beautiful but I was getting lots of stuttering and fps was dropping into single figures.

So I tried lowering the resolution to 900p and AA off. Looked pretty bad but again I am getting stuttering and FPS drops to 12-13FPS in caves and 23 outdoors..... simply unacceptable for a £1000+ laptop.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong here?
If anyone has the same system, please point me in the direction of the right settings, or possible different Nvidia drivers?


Thanks in advance guys!

Luke

 

hi try these drivers these are newer beta drivers which brings alot of performance boosts to games like skyrim Graphics Driver - Verde 295.51 Driver - GeForce thats the link there try them and report back

 

Yes download the latest BETA driver and try again playing at 1080p, should be fine then.

 

Cheers guys!

 

Raised my FPS by about 3..... Totally stumped now

 

check you are running the game with your nvidia card and not your intel integrated graphics card

to make sure right click on your game icon and then go to run with graphics processor and select the nvidia 1

and see if that makes any difference, seeing from your specs you shouldnt have any trouble running that game

 

Hey Daryl. I have the 3D version so Optimus is disabled by default.

 

im really stomped by how it cnt be running well as it is quite the powerful laptop you have more so than mine even mine is the i5 edition of urs and only has the gt525m and i can play skyrim no probs, can i ask have you got the latest updates for your skyrim i think the latest update was 1.4 thats the only other thing i could think thats causing it, and if not you could always go down the road of overclocking your card a little

 

I think the 290.53 drivers are better for Skyrim. Mine plays great, though i do play at 900p. Can't tell you my FPS as I don't care. Game just runs smooth.

 

I haven't played it so I don't know what settings are actually available within the game, but it is normally shadows, AA and certain lighting that causes the biggetst problems in my experiance.
If you can start to decrease the shadow settings it should help (in wow with everything on ultra I was getting 30fps-ish but dropping a lot in areas with lots of lighting etc, turning shadows to medium instantly increased that by around 20fps without changing anything else).

 

try checking your GPU temps while youre trying to play. If they are abnormally high, the card might shrink performance to keep the safe temps.

 

I found that a simple overclock using MSI Afterburner, the 1.4 BETA patch for Skyrim available via Steam, and the 290.53 BETA Nvidia drivers improved performance significantly.
I'd be inclined to turn shadows down to medium, no AA and use FXAA instead.
I've resorted to playing the likes of Skyrim and BF3 at 1366x768 also, allowing room to bump AA usage etc.

Playing Skyrim all on high at 1080p may be pushing it somewhat. The GT 555M is a capable GPU if you know how to get the most out of it, but don't expect desktop level performance.

You paid in excess of £1000 for a 3D display, Blu Ray, and the 2720QM CPU.
Price doesn't always reflect performance.
The spec in my signature cost £700 for instance, because I didn't opt for Blu Ray, the 3D 1080p display, and the CPU upgrade.

Best of luck to you.

 

You cant expect to run with everything on high with a mid-range card for forever.. Skyrims a demanding game. Update Skyrim and your nvidia drivers as suggested. Give Nvidia Inspector (overclocking utility) a go. I prefer it over MSI Afterburner..

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Benchmarks - Notebookcheck.net Tech Check out the results for the 555m. You'll have to tone the settings down some to get good fps in all areas

 

As above, disable or set shadows to low and try it again. Shadows are always the killer in any game these days (aside from AA and tesselation!).

 

I have my shadows set to low and think they look fine, they still look defined and sharp. I also have aa off af x16 and fxaa on, with everything else on high i get atleast 40fps with temps no higher than 69C on both cpu and gpu. (no overclock btw)

I also have 2.5gb of texture replacers and loads of mods installed.

 

Definitely this is not the result from Gt555 in xps.I play the game with version 1.3, all on ultra,1600:900;AA-4;FXAA,AF-16 and triplebufering forced through nvdia drivers,put all graphics mode that i can find;HD texture;Hd water;HD background mountains;HD foliage,gras,fire,light.snow,etc. tweak the shadows with some mod and it looks very nice and with skyboost i get 34-40 fps.I try Ambient Occlusion from new nvidia drivers on preformance level and realy the game looks better,but sadly the gpu just cant hanndle this i get 15-25 fps.I tried also that processor thing set to 99 procent that Sam_A_1992 write about,and realy i see biig tempreture drop from 85 max to 73-74.Realy nice.Thanks Sam

 

No problem i tried ambient occlusion aswell but the fps drop is simply to big. I also use enb mod from boris which makes things look nicer which now works for optimus laptops!!! ENB main page

 

I always switch the shadows off completely , i like it better that way and it gives you a good performance boost .

 

Is ENB series too havy for gt555.They envolve to many post procesing and SSAO.Wich version did you use.

 

Im using the latest version 105 enb injector (which is a non SSAO version) with this guys settings i found and without enb in this particular area i was in i was getting 40fps and with enb i got about 36fps. So a small drop but note version 105 performs a lot better than 103, expect 10+fps loss with 103. Also it can take a while to find settings you like.

Enb in general does make things brighter, more depth, deeper colours and a bit more crisp. I still dont know wether i prefer vanilla or enb tbh. Also please note most enb settings also use the fxaa post process injector which us optimus users cant use as it still relies on d3d9 files.

The enb settings are very customizable so it will probably take time to make a config which suits you. Which is why i downloaded a setting which i like then tweak to my liking.

 

I installed Skyrim earlier, it doesn't perform too badly and I haven't finished looking into tweaking it. but I am having a problem.

There is no mouse lag, but there is a delay between pressing the keys and movement happening and it is fairly noticeable. The delay happens with all direction keys, but theres no delay when you press espace to get to the menu or when searching/picking up things - I am completely stuck as to what it could be. Anyone heard of this and know how to stop it? Tried a few of the lag input suggestions I have found online, but surely the mouse and all keys would be lagging if it was complete input lag.

 

Whats your fps? Check with fraps. As ive noticed too low fps will cause the problems your experiencing.

Btw guys heres my thread on bethesda forums regarding more info on enb http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/13...timus-users/page__pid__20289477#entry20289477

 

So it looked like putting shadows to low got rid of the horrible lag and low fps... everything else is now on high/ultra and I am getting 50FPS on avarage 900p

Thanks for the help guys