Performance problems with my laptop

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Originally Posted by Bubalu

thanks for the answers :)

My fps when i am in a city are 10-15. But sometimes are going to 20-30. I am happy if they are 20-30 but most of the times are low than 15 or low than 10 and and is unplayable.
I have done a look on my Bios but there is nothing to touch there, maybe for the bios version.
I know that my computer is not really good for play but do you think can i do someting for improve all of this?

Thank you very much :)

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10-15 fps? Yikes. Even 20-30 is far too low for some.

Your frame rate is really low and your computer is having a hard time running FFXIV.

I've noticed that FFXIV is heavy on the GPU use but also heavy on the CPU as well. You can try dropping the settings down to try to eek out better frame rates (kill off AA, Occlusion Culling, etc.) to try to improve performance.

You can also attempt to overclock your CPU/GPU. I will say, if you go this route, you run a risk of damaging your machine. The chances are low, but you are pushing your equipment past it's designed parameters. If you OC and if you have a warranty, that warranty will be void.

I did some looking around for you and I couldn't really find any information on your specific model of computer, it looks like you CAN update your 620M drivers to trick it into thinking it's a 630M to push the core and memory clocks up. As for your i5, depends on the chipset, but it's definitely possible.

I want to reiterate the dangers of overclocking. If you don't do it right or know the values, you can will damage the hardware/software of your computer. If you overclock, you do so at your own risk:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus...-lounge-3.html

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpu...core-i5-2500k/

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus...c-results.html

I've also tried to overclock the cpu, but i cant. My bios are locked and i cant see advanced settings.

I don't know what else can ido...

Thanks :)

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Originally Posted by Bubalu

I've also tried to overclock the cpu, but i cant. My bios are locked and i cant see advanced settings.

I don't know what else can ido...

Thanks :)

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That's ... What I was afraid of. You need to unlock your BIOS to overclock your machine.

Please, please, PLEASE, do research into flashing your BIOS before doing it. If you flash the BIOS wrong, you brick your computer. If I were in your shoes, I honestly would look into another machine as flashing a BIOS is risky.

If you decide to go that route, MAKE SURE YOU FLASH YOUR DRIVE TO FAT FORMAT. This is so easy to miss and if you don't flash it to FAT, you will bad flash your BIOS which, again, is a death sentence for most computers.

You may be able to find some modified versions of your BIOS here: http://www.bios-mods.com/

I wouldn't go this route and like my above post, this is way of the beaten path and is in no way, shape, or form supported by the OEM. In all reality, you will be happier just picking up a new machine.

Issue with 620m from what i recall benchmark wise it's just bad..... Hopefully you're lucky and have newer version of card which was better performer, Low-(Pushing med settings be near impossible or tricky...). If we go by nividas info supposily better but like i said it isn't much in real world performance.


Like Marishi said if you've never flashed bios don't do it unless necessary but seems like fact holds a new machine be better if you don't need mobility build a desktop imo.

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Originally Posted by Solitear

Issue with 620m from what i recall benchmark wise it's just bad..... Hopefully you're lucky and have newer version of card which was better performer, Low-(Pushing med settings be near impossible or tricky...). If we go by nividas info supposily better but like i said it isn't much in real world performance.


Like Marishi said if you've never flashed bios don't do it unless necessary but seems like fact holds a new machine be better if you don't need mobility build a desktop imo.

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From what I understand NVidia has it's CUDA rendering which is better at rendering large video format files or video editing while AMD focuses more on gaming for it's rendering. There has been the debate since the dawn of time about which is better. NVidia or AMD. I've had both and I've found that neither are better than one another. AMD is less dynamic, but also comes at a cheaper price. NVidia is more pricey, but can multitask a bit better.

AMD is a bit easier to modify when it comes to overclocking and changing core frequencies than NVidia (at least I've found). Different strokes for different folks...

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