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    Garbage performance in SC2: HoTS on a 680m/i7-3630qm

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Vitor711, Mar 15, 2013.

  1. Vitor711

    Vitor711 Notebook Evangelist

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    So I gave up on Ultra at 1080 and have been lowering settings at the same res but I still get down to 17FPS as soon as I get anywhere near my supply limit.

    Anyone know what's going on? Pretty sure I had better performance with my 285m on Wings of Liberty.

    GPU utilization is at 40% during gameplay but 99% during cutscenes. There's no way I'm that CPU limited, is there?
     
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  2. digitalerr0r

    digitalerr0r Newbie

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    having similar issues :/ must be doing something wrong ..others are working flawlessly ...
     
    digitalerr0r, Mar 30, 2013
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  3. maxheap

    maxheap caparison horus :)

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    u guys are sure you are on high performance on power settings? I have 2920xm and it can drive 7970m to 99% utilization. It is clearly not CPU bottlenecking (3630qm should be more than enough). Either driver screwup or power profile (I am ruling out iGPU as I am sure you checked that already).
     
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  4. digitalerr0r

    digitalerr0r Newbie

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    yeah i've set windows 7 power settings to high performance, set programs from nvidia control panel to use high performance GPU, (660m GTX) , been gaming on sc2 medium settings. 8 players battles just lag like crazy..

    and from what i can see GPUz says its reached 60% gpu utilization

    1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg 4.jpg SC2 2013-03-31 10-07-54-30.JPG SC2 2013-03-31 10-12-28-92.JPG
     
    digitalerr0r, Mar 30, 2013
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  5. HTWingNut

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    @ OP since you have a Clevo, make sure your Fn+ESC Clevo Control Panel is set to "High Performance".
     
    HTWingNut, Mar 31, 2013
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