LENOVO Y50 860M DRIVERS

Hello everybody!

I have a Lenovo y50 laptop with a 860m gpu. I recently update my drivers to the latest (376 or whatever) only to find out that it overheats my laptop, to the point it was a 90° idle. When i tried playing battlefield bad company 2, the FPS would go from 60 to 23 every few seconds. When i disconnected the power, the laptop crashed with a BSOD.

So i cleaned the fans, using can of compressed air, and rebooted. No difference.

I then decided to revert to the old driver (372.70) and the laptop still did that 23-60 stuff. I remember reading that nvidia purposefully downgrades the performance of old components in order to make people buy their new stuff. So i thought, what if i go even more back in time?

And so i lowered to (368.69) and then to a driver that was released the same year the laptop was released (355.98), and the 23-60 stuff happens very rarely.

Problem is it never seems to stay still at 60FPS, even if its a fairly old game, and ever if all the settings are set to low.

Tl:dr: What i am asking is: what driver should i use to optimize performance? i just want to be able to play games with a stable framerate that wont go 23-60.

 

Take your tin foil hat off.

The reason that Kepler is being "downgraded" is because the architecture can't support the newer rendering technique that is present in modern games.


And as for your laptop, do a repaste.

 

if that is the case, then how come the FPS in a much much older game is worse (the game is older than the GPU).

And even if what you say is really true, how come it crashes when I remove powercord with latest drivers? How come it idles at 90°C IDLE?
and how come when I downgraded to a much older driver (355) IT DIDN'T CRASH, OR BECOME VOLCANIC HOT ON IDLE?

Did you even read the articles before doing a meaningless post? Why even bother posting if you had nothing useful to say?

 

Y50 860M is Maxwell GM107

Also, 90*C idle is definitely not right.