Just got my NP5165 and got some problems/questions

Hi, so I just got my Sager NP5165 and had a few questions I hope some of you fine folks can help me with.

1: I installed MSI afterburner, and when I press the VGA botton to dedicated graphics, the afterburner program starts lagging and hangs every 5 seconds. If I press the VGA botton back to integrated it works fine again.

2: In Nvidia Control Panel, I am unable to change which program to use the iGPU and the dGPU. I owned an M11x with optimus and that worked fine. Just this time the box where I can choose which graphics card is grey, and I can't click it. So some programs are set to Integreated as default, but can't get it to dedicated.

3: I downloaded batterybar, but it just displays around 2 hours of batterylife all the time when I use both iGPU and dGPU, not really accurate. Are there any other programs that displays how much batterylife is left, because Windows doesn't tell me, just says how many percent remaining of battery.

4: In hwinfo64 and Hwmonitor it says that my GPU clock is 650 (555m), but is it not supposed to be 590?

Thanks!

 

1. VGA button is mostly worthless. Don't use it.
2. Some drivers will let you choose, others will be gray. Haven't figured out specifically which ones.
3. Haven't been able to get battery remaining timers on any OS, only percent.
4. Not sure. Should be 590. 650 should be stable though.

 

Thanks LLStarks, I installed the 275.33 driver version and I can now choose graphics, yay!

When the power profile is on High performance, both MSI Afterburner and EVGA Precision programs lagg and freeze a lot. It works for 3 seconds, then freezes for 5 seconds, then works for 3 seconds again, which seems rather odd, so I won't be overclocking anytime soon.

Is there any way to get more performance when the laptop is on battery? I am able to play Starcraft 2 on Ultra on power, but only medium settings on battery. Would be nice to be able to play on high settings on battery.

 

You could try to manually overclock it, but I'm not sure how successful you'd be. The GPU/CPU downclock heavily on battery (especially the GPU) so medium performance isn't unexpected.

 

I'm not surprised about this. I've heard several stories of people being unable to game at the highest settings while on battery, and I saw one person having this issue recently. I think, at least for now, if you game on the battery, you're stuck lowering the settings.