FPS Issues Despite Great Laptop Specs
Hi all, I have a great laptop (2.3 GHz i7 quad core processor, 8GB RAM, 4GB graphics card, etc), yet even on the lowest settings, I'm getting terrible FPS, almost to the point where the game is unpl...
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From your hastebin I see you have an Nvidia Geforce 650M and Intel HD graphics.
It often happens in PCs with Nvidia hardware that the games launch on the integrated chipset to save energy. You have to change that in your Nvidia control panel.
Source of the thread I took that image from: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/DA-Inquisition-Fails-to-Start/td-p/3998841/highlight/false
Hi Fred,
Before, I actually went into Global Settings and changed the "preferred graphics processor" to the NVIDIA processor, but it was still giving me issues.
However, I will try your solution and let you know how it works out!
Thanks!
The Optimus products and the drivers for them seem generally substandard in every way, an opinion based on 30 years plus of desktop hardware experience. Many of them NEVER work correctly in Bethesda's or in EA's games. There are tens of thousands of messages on the Geforce forums complaining about the Optimus series.
So, I tried what Fred suggested, and I see no difference--still terrible FPS, pretty much rendering the game unplayable. :/
Any other suggestions or comments?
Thanks in advance.
set the nvidia control settings for:
Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration -> SINGLE DISPLAY PERFORMANCE
Power management mode -> prefer maximum performance
And if that doesn't work, see if you can disable integrated graphics in the BIOS (though I don't think all motherboards support this).
