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Anonymous
11 years ago

Poor framerate on new MacBook Pro with GeForce Gt 750M via Bootcamp.

Hi all,

My rig usually chews through most games, but on this one, I'm running around 15 FPS unless I turn everthing down to LOW. Here are my specs.

GPU: GeForce GT 750M

CPU: i7-4980HQ @ 2.80GHz

Memory: 16 GB RAM

Driver: 347.09

OS: 8.1

The weird thing is that when I use GeForce Experience to Optimize my game, it selects all of the lowest settings. Every single setting is set to it's lowest option. Which of course, looks like **bleep**. If I try to move to a more reasonable video quality, my FPS srops to under 20.

Is it possible that my rig just doesn't have to the power to play this game? I feel that I'm above the Recommended specs, so I shouldn't have to run everything at Low just to get to 30 FPS.

Anyone else running a MacBook Pro?

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    The minimum is stated in terms of desktop devices because of the standards applied.  There are no standards at all for mobile video, but on average, those are 20% poorer than the same base CPU chip in a desktop.  You are well below minimum, in other words.  If you did meet what minimum amounts to, you would only get Low Graphics, Medium screen resolutions, and Moderate Frame rates of 40-45 FPS. 

  • Even the desktop version of the Geforce 750 is below the recommended requirements.

    What resolution are you running? Macs usually have high resolution displays, whereas you should try something in the range of 1600x900.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Thanks for the reply.

    Any thoughts where I can get a comparison of the various chipsets?

    On the EA website it list the Recommended graphic card as a GTX 660. My assumption was that the 750 was better. Even with the M. The GTX 660 looks to be a couple of years old.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    There are many sites with benchmarking.  The difference between a real (desktop) 650 and the desktop 750 is / was far smaller than the increase in performance between a desktop 650 and desktop 660.  Laptops vary all over the place, depending on manufacturers, with only Sager giving you a good share of desktop performance with their gaming PCs. 

    Once upon a time, Toshiba laptops' GPUs werte "only" detuned about 15% compared to a desktop, while some other brands took off as much as 30% of performance.  Here is how 750s of some varieties compare, desktop to laptop: 

    http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-750-vs-GeForce-GT-750M-Mac

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Hey, thanks for helping me with that. Really appreciate it.

    I agree that there are a lot of varables, but I would have expected it to run a bit better based on this comparison.

    http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-660-vs-GeForce-GT-750M

    The overall benchmarks are close to the 660 (6.5 vs. 5.5).

    I'm a heavy gamer and this is the first game that is totally unplayable. My machine chews threw Shadows of Mordor and the new Borderlands.

    Oh well.