Performance Issues with my P-7811 FX

Hello all, I tried doing a little research but I came up with nothing. I bought this laptop hoping that I'll get a decent gaming machine. I saw benchmarks of this laptop running Crysis on all high with a decent resolution and averaging a very playable fps, with the exception of heavy fire fights.

When I installed crysis the game was unplayable at any setting. The auto detect settings put everything to all low, and I was running a resolution of 1280x800 and the game was always very choppy and jittery. I was running DX9.

So I thought okay, Crysis is a demanding game so I tried mass effect. It still runs like crap I have everything set to low and a resolution of 1440x900 and its still very jittery and choppy. Its playable but the choppy gameplay ruins it for me. This card should be able to handle ME at least on medium with full resolution. I'm running the latest 180.42 drivers. Anyone have similar issues?

 

Are you trying to game on battery?

 

or u go back to gateway nvidia driver updated on 9/15.
u can look at my screenies of crysis.

 

I noticed the same thing when I got mine. Even when you plug it into the wall, the power setting is set to "Balance" instead of "Performance". Click on the little battery on the right side of the Taskbar and change the power profile to "Performance".

 

I'm not gaming on battery.
My power option was set to balanced, I thought that only mattered when you were on battery. I didn't think it affected performance when the laptop is plugged in.
I'll try again and report back. Thanks for your replies.

 

What nvidia driver are you running?

 

I'm running 180.42 driver.
The issue was that it was set to balanced instead of high performance, everything's running smooth now.

 

Yea if you download the tool "GPU-Z" you can see that the Nvidia Powermizer tool likes to down-clock the video card any chance it can get. Only when you set it to Performance mode will it stay at the highest clock setting.

 

Glad that worked for you...

If you decide you want a little more performance, then I suggest looking at the first post in this thread http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=265740 and install Xfastest or Dox's customised Forceware and then install nvidia system tools 6.03 a little further down. The system Monitor tool will allow you to monitor all sorts of fun stuff. The performance tool will allow you to play around with your GPU's speeds. I bumped all speed by about 50MHz and that got me over 9000 in 3DMark.