Does a newly started test game perform any better or is it only the ongoing save that is behaving this way?
On the graphics card question, we should confirm that you have dual graphics and see which drivers it's using before we get into how to see which card it's using or if something else needs to be adjusted. Not all systems have dual. If you could please run a full dxdiag report on this laptop, send it up to
Pastebin.com and provide a link so we can read it, we can suggest the best way to proceed from there.
How to run one: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information
