bottleneck performance?

[Raist]

Oh man... I had completely forgotten about nVidia's adaptive refresh rate. The laptop was doing weird things when I tried locking the rates down in either the NVCP or the game. But I set it to adaptive in the NVCP (triple buffer on and such for when it does clamp refresh and all) and then unlocked refresh in the game's menu. It smoothed out considerably. May be something to tinker with.

Note that I also set as much as I could to application specific as well. Power scheme is also adapative in the NVCP to help conserve power (it's a laptop after all). It has several settings that you may want to check on. Driver mode may not be working too well, who knows.