Unflappable Drayk adc. Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Let's get to the point My laptop specs And Intel HD Graphics 4000 graphics card Windows 8 I think that's all So my friend asked me if I could fix his laptop as it is overloaded with bloatware and viruses. Starting up takes his laptop like 10 minutes to run at full speed. There were a lot of unnecessary programs in the background and stuff. It was a horrible sight, yes. So I reformatted his laptop, installed the Dell drivers, nothing more. It was much faster than it was before, well at least it is. Problem is, I used a random Unity game as a measuring stick to measure his laptop's performance. Mine ran the game at smooth 60fps at high performance. Yet when I tried his laptop, it was frequently shifting from 10-30 fps at the same high performance. That was a few months ago, but IIRL, his specs are: Intel Core i5 something something CPU @2.53 GHz 3GB RAM 64-bit Windows 7 professional Intel HD Graphics 3000 And I thought his laptop was supposed to run better games than mine. Anyone knows why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Graphics hardware is generally more of a limiting factor in performance for most games than CPU speed. Both of those systems have integrated graphics hardware with pretty limited performance capability, but yours is still significantly better on that front. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk adc. Posted November 15, 2014 Author Share Posted November 15, 2014 Oh, that explains. My assumption was hey, it's only one intel generation thing, what could go wrong? Well I was wrong, thanks Lilith. But I do remember when I opened his laptop at school, the game ran at 20 fps for a sec then the next thing was smooth 60. Strangely, I've observed that his laptop runs best on battery rather than on charger. Something's definitely not right. I would advise him to play using the battery, but after 1 minute, the laptop would shut down, because his battery is kinda broken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 If it runs differently on mains rather than battery, that indicates power settings are messed up. Also, initial lag and then smoothness is usually caused by I/o latency as things are loaded into memory (or in some cases, nonessential things swapped). Nothing to do for that besides a ramdisk (ibwouldnt recommend for your system), or short striping (which may help, but can be difficult to do properly). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk adc. Posted November 15, 2014 Author Share Posted November 15, 2014 If it runs differently on mains rather than battery, that indicates power settings are messed up. That happened to my laptop once when it was still a few months old. I played League of Legends one day, and saw my fps stutter and seem to cap at around 20-30. I removed my charger then saw it ran smooth as butter, from 20-30 to the 60 vsync cap. Then when it almost ran out, I had to plug in the charger, but it would stutter again and all that. So I tried taking a look at my power plan and it was on the default balanced state. I set it to high performance and it solved the problem. But I've played LoL during my first few months with my laptop on balanced without any problem. And by that I mean it is 60 fps on charger while on balanced power plan. Which is weird. Oh well, thanks for the explanation guys. I'll take it from here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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