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    Witcher 2 performance issues

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by heretic,the, May 20, 2011.

  1. heretic,the

    heretic,the Newbie

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    Hi Everybody

    i am a relatively new owner of a lenovo y560, and untill i got Witcher 2 the other day i never had any performance related problems with it.

    I never bought my laptop purely for gaming purposes but here's the thing, it doesn't seem to matter what setting i try, when i start a new game in the castle level i get basically the same 14-20'something frames for ANY graphical configuration. I still remember that the first time i swing my sword there is a nice frame drop. as soon as i get off the castle setting the frames get to their 30's. What really bugs me is the fact that i have such bad performance dispite the fact that the settings i'm running on look like Crap...

    If anyone has a similar problem or some solution pleee :D eeease let me know.


    -laptop-
    lenovo y560
    intel core i7 1.73 ghz,4 gb ram,Radeon HD5730 1GB15.6
     
    heretic,the, May 20, 2011
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Witcher 2 is a pretty nasty game if you start cranking stuff up. 5730 is an overclocked 5650 which is a good mid range card, but cards like GT555M even struggle to play it.

    Are you on the latest Catalyst drivers?
     
    Tsunade_Hime, May 20, 2011
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  3. heretic,the

    heretic,the Newbie

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    when i went looking for the latest drivers it seemed as if they hadn't been updated since last year (which is weird), i may be mistaken but if i got my laptop this year then i should be running on latest drivers :(
     
    heretic,the, May 20, 2011
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Download the latest ones from AMD, 11.5 Catalyst is out for Mobility cards.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, May 20, 2011
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    heretic,the Newbie

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    thanks allot for the advice, hopefully it'll work :)
     
    heretic,the, May 21, 2011
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    Make sure you're switched to the High Performance graphics; the Y560 comes with switchable graphics IIRC.

    The switchable graphics also makes putting the latest (and really fast) 11.5 drivers on a bit more difficult. Goes something like this:

    6. The Catalyst 11.5 Mobility drivers should've extracted to C:\AMD or C:\ATI
    In this folder, you should find the subfolder Packages somewhere.
    Go Packages, Drivers, Display, W7_INF (32-bit) or W76A_INF (64-bit)
    7. Enable the ATI adapter (not by setting the BIOS option).
    8. Launch Device Manager.
    9. Right-click the Radeon, choose Update Driver Software.
    10. Browse my computer for driver software.
    11. Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.
    12. Have Disk.
    13. Navigate to the folder from 6 with the INF file in it, accept the folder choice.
    14. Find either the 6470M or 6630M which you have.
    15. Accept the driver choice and the warnings.

    (Numbering and GPU names aren't right because it's copypasta)
     
    Colonel O'Neill, May 21, 2011
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    heretic,the Newbie

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    Update- tried installing new drivers and then some (hdd defrag/clean-up) and no change what soever in performance, really hoping that this is a fixable bug.

    In regards to the switchable graphics i looked around the internet for some info concerning that i from what i read i probably don't have switchable graphics (Display adapters section should have an intel option along with Ati, i think).

    If that's not the case and i actually do have switchable graphics then i'm just not sure whats going on beyond point 13 on the above list, where is folder 6?

    thanks for the help :)
     
    heretic,the, May 22, 2011
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