Y500 Tweaking, Modding, Discussion.

I bought a Y500 and am very satisfied with it. For this price I could not have hoped for a better laptop.

My laptop before this was the Acer 3820TG. That laptop was great but the associated owners lounge were even better. They were filled with discussions on how to tweak your system, benchmarks, how to overclock optimally etc.

Sadly for the Y500 all I see it ing about how there was flex on the delete key or how overclocking bricked their system or even stupid statements about how this laptop will be obsolete in the future...

Please don't in this thread, discuss how you've managed to make it better and post benchmarks etc.


Personally I opened mines up to install a 256GB Crucial m4 mSATA. Anyone have any idea on what I can do with the 16GB mSATA I have lying around?

 

AriStar, I fully agree, and would like to submit my first little tweaking discovery.

I recently started using adaptive vsync, largely because of D3doverriders unpredictable behavior in SLI. However, I noticed that with adaptive vsync on, Borderlands 2 would stutter like a madman though the tearing was gone (it was completely unplayable). So the first thing I did was use MSI Afterburner's fps limiter in conjunction with the adaptive vsync and limited the fps to 60fps. This worked in clearing up ALL my stuttering, but it brought back a small amount of tearing. My reasoning for this was that the 60fps cap imposed by MSI AB is not actually the true refresh rate of my monitor, so there would be moments adaptive vsync would go wonky and show tears. This happened almost in rhythmic waves. So i thought, what would happen if I limited the fps to 61 instead of 60, and used that in conjunction adaptive vsync?
Well, so far my results have been spectacular, and using Borderlands 2 as the example again, I get silky smooth 60fps (as adaptive vsync doesn't allow you to go above your refresh rate- at least not frequently) and tears ONLY when the fps drops below the refresh rate (as it's supposed to). Input feels just fine, and whatever stuttering I've had in ANY game (valve source/ue3 engines) have been solved in this way. This is also the ONLY way I've been able to play any cryengine games without stutter.

BTW, does anyone know if all software fps limiters work the same way, or do they hook themselves into different points of the rendering pipeline? I ask because I've found nvidia's fps limiter to be a bit problematic. I'd suggest Dxtory or MSI AB.

 

^does that work on source engine games as well? I was getting terrible stuttering on Dota 2 and the only thing that solved it was playing borderless window mode

 

There is also word on overclocking your LCD display to have a faster refresh rate, with people reaching 108hz. The higher rate reduces tearing and stuttering with higher frame rates, and then I wonder how well it works with adaptive vsync as well.

I haven't had time to mess around too much, but I'm super stoked to start tweaking.

I think there's more discussion on that here:
Y500 Matte Screen?

And that forum also has other things, including the great bios/vbios mods by svl7 to enable OCing on newer drivers and a few other things.

 

Hi AriStar, I saw that fix on the forum right after I had finished tinkering, and setting a 61fps cap + Adaptive vsync forced works just as well for me (and I know what the stuttering feels like since I've been testing with hl2, portal, tf2, cs:go, dota). YMMV tho

 

Alright, how do I do adaptive vsync?