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    570M underperforming

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by cjswanson1355, Mar 10, 2012.

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    cjswanson1355 Newbie

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    Hello. I just purchased a new MSI laptop with a 570M graphics card. However, it doesn't seem to be running as fast as I had expected. I can only play Skyrim at a playable framerate at low settings, and even that is iffy. I've noticed consistently slow speeds with the games I have tried. Is there a way to tell if my card really is running slower than expected, or is this expected?

    This is the laptop I purchased. I upgraded the CPU to an i7.

    FORCE 16F2-012 / MSI 16F2
     
    cjswanson1355, Mar 10, 2012
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    cjswanson1355 Newbie

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    I watched some videos online and can certainly tell my video card is not performing. Can anyone tell me what is going on? I installed the drivers that came with the computer, and device manager says they are up to date.
     
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    RainMan_ Notebook Evangelist

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    LOW?!

    I run it with my GT 525M at high settings.

    Can you post a GPU-Z screeshot and another screenshot at sensors tab ?!
     
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    Ok, it seems my laptop can only run games well when it's plugged in. Is there a way to adjust the GPU settings even though it will consume tons of power?
     
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    RainMan_ Notebook Evangelist

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    You want to game on battery?! You are kidding,right ?
    You will kill your battery dude.
     
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    Ok, I guess the answers my question. Is there any information available about gaming on a battery.
     
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    s2odin Merrica!

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    Don't do it.
    Well you can, but as you have experienced it doesn't work.

    The whole idea of getting a gaming laptop is gaming while it's plugged in. If you need to (while it's plugged in) make sure it's on high performance mode.
     
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    somedood Notebook Enthusiast

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    I may be wrong, but I think the problem with running on battery is it can't supply that much current at the voltage needed, so rather than have the computer just shut down it lowers the power draw of the graphics card
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Nearly all big DTR gaming laptops will throttle high end dGPU cards to horrendous levels to protect the battery. My M17x R2 and my Vostro 1500 are unusable on battery.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Mar 11, 2012
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    Hi there, if you want to game on battery you can get a bit more out of it.

    You can increase the 2d clocks a bit using a bios editor.

    75/150/147

    could go to

    250/500/400

    Your battery should still cope so long as you don't use furmark or something silly.

    You will want to make sure you run nvidia inspector to unlock the lowest power state 50/100/67.5 so that your idle power times don't plummet.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 11, 2012
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