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    Underperforming Clevo P870DM-G?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Battlebared, Jan 24, 2017.

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    • GTX 980m x2 in SLI
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    Hey all, recently I've been having troubles with poor framerate in multiple games: Rocket League, Rise of the Tomb Raider...etc. I've been having a consistent 75 frames with G-Sync before, but now all of my games have dropped down to around 30-40. I reset all my Nvidia Control Panel configurations, but that did not help. Only when I disabled G-Sync had I seen a significant improvement in framerate, but it is now plagued with stuttering frames. My GPU and CPU temps are normal and SLI is definetly working, so now I have no idea what to do next.

    If anyone has any suggestions to fix this problem, if would be greatly appreciated. Also, if there's some basic optimisations I could do with the Clevo laptop, please link it with your comment. So far I haven't overclocked any of my components, or added any other configurations to the laptop.

    EDIT: 3D Mark Firestrike Score: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/11506078
     
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    nVIDIA GeForce Driver v378.49

    First, make sure to remove any Windows Password if you have one otherwise you will be locked in safe mode as the password won't work for some reason. For a bug free installation, please download Display Driver Uninstaller, run it to extract it to a folder, then run the Display Driver Uninstaller.exe by right clicking on it and choosing, Run As Administrator

    After the reboot, install the new driver, then select CUSTOM, now, uncheck GeForce Experience as the version included in the driver is older than the current latest one which is linked below.

    Also uncheck 3D Vision Driver if you do not have a 3D Screen as it often causes video lag when you first launch any video in your favorite media player.
     
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    Thank you! Just ran a couple of game and ran a new Fire Strike benchmark, issues are definetly resolved:
    http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/17586147?

    So now, where should I check to get my graphics driver? Should I keep Geforce Experience installed? The current driver definetly seemed to have improved my framerate, so I'd like to make sure I always have the most optimised one. Thanks once again for the massive help!
     
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    nVIDIA Driver Downloads

    Change the Product Series to the M (Notebook) option then select your Windows Version, then use DDU always
     
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