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    Sager NP9150 With 7970M Still Seeing Enduro Issues.

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Twitchyk, Jun 30, 2013.

  1. Twitchyk

    Twitchyk Newbie

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    Many people seem to think Enduro has been fixed, I have come to see if there is a way to disable Enduro on the Sager NP9150 that I have just purchased from XoticPC.com

    Windows 7 Ultimate 64
    8gb Ram
    500gb SSD
    7970M
    [​IMG]

    When Playing Arma II I am getting roughly 10-25% usage on the GPU. However in BF3 I am getting 95-100% usage. The CPU is not the bottleneck.

    Is Arma coded poorly or is this just another AMD driver headache?

    My real question REGARDLESS of the game performance is this. Is there anyway to disable Enduro? With Rivertuner? With custom driver? with BIOS updates? I really never ever have this laptop unplugged and I dont care if the card runs at full speed. I just wish I could disable Enduro.

    Thanks
     
    Twitchyk, Jun 30, 2013
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  2. Talon

    Talon Notebook Virtuoso

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    I don't think you can disable enduro on this laptop. Also Arma II is poorly coded or something because I get the same crappy GPU utilization with my 780m.
     
    Talon, Jun 30, 2013
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  3. roughavoc

    roughavoc Notebook Consultant

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    The main question is, on Arma, are you playing Online? If so, I remember from the Dayz mod, that your FPS is HEAVILY affected on how good the servers are.
    Get a high spec server, I could get 70+ FPS, average, 30-40FPS, a terrible specced server down in the 20s

    Arma 3, online I get around 40% usage, and I am using Alienware and have Enduro constantly disabled. Single player, 99% constant. Seems they haven't addressed the problem as of yet in the new game
     
    roughavoc, Jun 30, 2013
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  4. transphasic

    transphasic Notebook Consultant

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    To be more specific, you CANNOT disable Enduro in Sager machines. You CAN with Alienware laptops, but not with Sagers.
    We are stuck with AMD and their Enduro nonsense, and there's nothing we can do about it, either.
    Enduro will never be fixed globally with any kind of hardware or Software solution, nor a BIOS fix either.
    AMD has had 15 months to fix the problem, and they haven't been able, because they can't.
    The only thing that they have done, is to tweak a game here or there specifically with Driver releases, but that's about it.
    For me from now on, Nvidia is the only way to go, and that's the only way to get around not having to deal with Enduro any longer.
     
    transphasic, Jun 30, 2013
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