I really want to like The Witcher 2 but...

I can't play it over 11 FPS! I have a good laptop that should be playing it at 25 or more FPS. I don't understand how I can play Black Ops with maxed out graphics at over 50 FPS and I can't play this game. I think there is something wrong considering others are getting higher FPS with similar specs. I should also mention that I am relatively new to PC gaming and don't want to give up just yet so I could really use some help here. This is the laptop I'm gaming with:

Samsung RC512-S02 Specs | PCMag.com

I should also mention that I have the laptop connected to a LG LED TV via an HDMI cable, but like I mentioned before I am playing Black Ops and similar games (which I think are graphically intense) with fairly high FPS; usually in the 50's or so. Is it my graphics card? I am using the new processor with the GT 525m NVIDIA card. I have already uninstalled the 3D vision files and updated to the 1.1 patch. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

You cant compare with black ops man. bo is using the old mw2 engine, just furtherly tweaked, and the performance is severely humpered by treyarch unprofessional work. It took 6 patches to get it smooth like mw2.

About the witcher 2, your gt525 cant run it proprely, as it doesnt have enough horse power. Its not a powerful card nor a gaming one: you can try however to run the game at lowest settings possible at native resolution.
Also are you sure that optimus is switching the cards correctly? It may happen that youre running on the integrated intel.
Add the witcher 2 to optimus whitelist, change power management to "prefer maximum performance" in nvidia control panel/3d settings and try again.
Also latest betas 275.27 should have some performance enhancements for witcher 2 afaik, worth checking them out.

 

Yeah that's true I didn't know that about BO, I guess I was just impressed by the graphics coming from console gaming I'll try your suggestions when I get home and report back the results. I hope it works! Thanks for the help!

 

I just wanted to notify you that BO uses the WaW engine which has been tweaked, it does not use the IW4 engine. The black ops engine is a refined WaW engine which is a refined CoD 4 engine...

 

Thanks for the correction mate

 

No problem Just wish they would actually have used the IW4 engine on black ops...

 

I dont think The Witcher 2 loves your Nvidia GeForce GT 525M.
But since you have Optimus tech you might wanna check if it fails to enable the Nvidia GPU and tries to render the game with the Intel IGP.

 

You are getting 11 fps at 1366x768 resolution?

That seems a bit low, even for a non-gaming card like the 525M.

did you try lowering the settings down to high or medium? or perhaps reducing the resolution further to 1280x720? Whatever you do you must make sure that ubersampling is disabled

 

The game runs like absolute crap for me as well. 20 fps at 640x480, everything low. There's bad performance and then there's this.

 

525m is a successor to the 425m, which was not a powerful gaming card.
Do you have some of the goodies turned down, like AA/AF?
Shaders absolutely kill low and mid range cards. Try turning shaders to lowest or off.

 

The minimum requirement for The Witcher 2 is a desktop 8800 GT.

The 525M is half its speed. You should not expect to run the game very well, if at all.

 

Benchmarks are right in the link he posted, Lost Planet 2 DX9 is beating his laptop mercilessly.

MobileMark 2007- Performance score 293
PCMark Vantage 7201
3-D BENCHMARK TESTS - 3DMark06 - 1,024 x 768 - Default 7742
3-D BENCHMARK TESTS - 3DMark06 - Native – 0X/4X 6469
Crysis - Medium quality - 1,024 x 768 - AA/AF=Off/Off 46.4
Crysis - High quality - Native - AA/AF= 0X/4X 14.6
Lost Planet 2 (DX9) - Middle quality - 1,024 x 768- AA/AF=Off/Off 30.1
Lost Planet 2 (DX9) - High quality - Native - AA/AF= 0X/4X 15.5

 

Well thanks for all the feedback and at this point it is painfully clear that my graphics card is the culprit. I have managed to get the FPS to an average of 20 frames in the starting area near the tents. I have all the settings lowered, downloaded the 275.27 beta patch and now have the game running on the native resolution.

I want to upgrade my card soon so i can play future games but am unsure as to which card would be next gen gaming worthy. What do you guys think, what card should I upgrade to?

 

Have ye patched your Witcher 2 install?

 

its the same card, nvidia just slapped a 5 in there

and to the op, no you cant change your gpu, you will need to buy another laptop

 

You cannot upgrade your graphics card. Very few notebooks are capable of upgrading graphics due to the card being soldered to the motherboard.

 

Oh I see, how annoying. I was pretty sure I read that this model had "upgradeable graphics card" but I guess not. I guess I should wait six months and buy the new Macbook...

 

you are going to wait more for that, and probably apple is going to follow the ultrabook thingy, which steve already hinted

 

Make sure you buy one with an ATI GPU (cause they are using ATI for this generation and maybe above) with a 6770M or higher if you want to game on them. The stock ATI GPU is on par, if not worse, than what you got now in your Samsung.

Just FYI.