Trying to get the last bit out of my P-7805u that I can..

So my laptop is completely stock.
1920x1200 screen.
Running Win 7 x64

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I've been playing SWTOR on my desktop and have installed it on my laptop and finally got around to trying it out.

At 1920x1200 and low graphics settings. I get around 30fps just standing there. But once I'm in a fight and lightsaber are flying around my fps dips way down to 8fps.

Any ideas/tips for not having to replace my laptop yet and getting a little more life out of it?

 

Basics: Clean the crap out of the laptop, run a GPU temperature sensor, reapply thermal compound, etc.

Other than that, I have no idea what that game's requirements are so I am just speaking generally.

 

Yeah it's not overheating...

 

There is no pc demo to load up and evaluate so little help other than those with the game can offer. That is other than old school advice of turn the resolution down..................

 

Try turning off vsync. I find that helps massively in increasing FPS in many games. If the game doesn't have that option, you can do it in NVIDIA control panel.

 

I use auslogic boostspeed to clean my system up. Old registry entries from installations, defragmenting AND optimization of files as well as boot and registry defrag.
I spent around 200$ and got a x9100 8 gigs of ram and a few other things.

If you DONT want to spend any money...
and you have the stock CPU theres a pinmod you can do to overclock that chip.
I never even thought about that, seemed too risky to me.
**But you should at least overclock the video card. It's easy to do with nvidia system tools.
Get that and furmark to benchmark. Run through the 15 minute test and make sure your temps are well under 100c My Furmark score on my stable overclock is 7269 frames at completion.

Here's what I was willing to push my system to until I get better cooling. Going to replace the TIM and place a copper shim on the chipset.