Starwars Battlefront on Dell XPS 13 9350

Hi!

'Got a XPS 13 9350 (skylake i5 8go 256Go) and i'm playing Starwars Battlefront (in low settings i've got enough framerate to have lot of fun). BUT the maps are rrreeaaallly slow to load (3/4minutes) and i''ve got almost everytime a message saying "EA connection lost"...

I've made a force upgrade of the intel HD drivers to the lastest beta drivers (Beta_15.40.18.64.4380) and i still have the problem... :-/

I'm playing GTA5 and i've tried Battlefield 3 and Hardline without any problems, anybody is playing Battlefront and having the same issues as me?

 

You're not going to play any of those games very well on a Dell XPS 13 9350. That laptop isn't designed for gaming at all. In addition to the integrated Intel HD graphics (which is very weak, and poorly suited to gaming), you're also using a dual-core 15W low-voltage CPU, which is a relatively weak CPU.

That laptop can play some less-demanding games like League of Legends or DotA 2 at decent framerates (around 40-60fps). But you're trying to run some pretty graphically demanding games (SW Battlefront, Battlefield 3, Hardline, GTA5, etc). Your laptop simply isn't powerful enough to run those types of games. The only thing you can do to change that is to play those games on different hardware. Upgrading drivers just isn't going to make enough of a difference to matter on those games.

 

As he said: with low settings he gets enough framerate "to have a lot of fun" and is running GTA5 and Hardline "without any problems". The issue here is slow EA loading speed for maps, and I doubt that has anything to do with CPU or GPU.

 

Ok, sooo...

In fact i'm not asking IF i can do it, because like i said, I AM doing it...

I've played GTA5 on my PS3 for months and in fact i found that it was more beautiful and smoother on the XPS.

Can somebody else -effectively playing Battlefront- tell me if he's got the same issue?
I know that for battlefield there is some tweak to make the game faster, maybe there is something equivalent for battlefront...?

For example:

 

So nobody else's playing Battlefront...? :-(

 

At least, nobody is playing on an XPS 13.