Karthal
Bronze Level Poster
Hey everyone, so this is an issue I've been battling with ever since I got my laptop just over a year ago and I think now, more than ever, I have more evidence on it being an abnormal issue.
So as the title says, I feel that my GTX 880M is getting nowhere near the performance it should be. A prime example of this would be the most recently released Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, which on a benchmarking site (http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-games-on-laptop-graphic-cards.13849.0.html) which has been proven to be accurate in the past has exceedingly different benchmarks than my own experience. On the site, it says that on the very lowest graphical, post-processing and resolutions possible, the game should run at an average of about 94 FPS, for me however, I only get around 18-35 FPS, a framerate which is consistent throughout almost everywhere in the game, aside from the Visima castle where I get an average of 25-40 FPS. I've also heard from multiple other people that my graphics card should be able to run this game above 60 FPS on Medium settings at 720p, which is seemingly impossible for me...
Another game I've noticed this especially in is Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. According to the benchmarking site I previously mentioned, I should be getting an average of 177 FPS on the lowest settings possible, for myself however, I'm only getting about 50 which occasionally fluxtuates up to 60 for a few seconds before dipping back down again.
I've got a laptop cooling pad which has had an effect on my exterior temperature and has helped with the FPS slightly although not much although I have yet to clean out my laptop in a while (although i wouldn't imagine that would make such a massive FPS difference), but heat shouldn't be the cause. I also have Witcher 3 installed on a hard drive with over 100GBs of spare space and my RAM should be high enough for this game. Anyone got any ideas what's going on? Thanks in advance.
So as the title says, I feel that my GTX 880M is getting nowhere near the performance it should be. A prime example of this would be the most recently released Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, which on a benchmarking site (http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-games-on-laptop-graphic-cards.13849.0.html) which has been proven to be accurate in the past has exceedingly different benchmarks than my own experience. On the site, it says that on the very lowest graphical, post-processing and resolutions possible, the game should run at an average of about 94 FPS, for me however, I only get around 18-35 FPS, a framerate which is consistent throughout almost everywhere in the game, aside from the Visima castle where I get an average of 25-40 FPS. I've also heard from multiple other people that my graphics card should be able to run this game above 60 FPS on Medium settings at 720p, which is seemingly impossible for me...
Another game I've noticed this especially in is Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. According to the benchmarking site I previously mentioned, I should be getting an average of 177 FPS on the lowest settings possible, for myself however, I'm only getting about 50 which occasionally fluxtuates up to 60 for a few seconds before dipping back down again.
I've got a laptop cooling pad which has had an effect on my exterior temperature and has helped with the FPS slightly although not much although I have yet to clean out my laptop in a while (although i wouldn't imagine that would make such a massive FPS difference), but heat shouldn't be the cause. I also have Witcher 3 installed on a hard drive with over 100GBs of spare space and my RAM should be high enough for this game. Anyone got any ideas what's going on? Thanks in advance.
