ASUS N73SM, i5 / Geforce GT 630M 2 gb / 8 gb POOR FPS on all games

[roel222]

I recently bought a Asus N73SM with a Geforce GT 630M 2gb video card, and 8 gb memory.
since i had it, it runs all games poor ;

GTA IV
F1 2011 / 2012
Dishonoured

just some examples but it really runs everything bad, while when i check the requirements my laptop should easily run it.

So what can be the problem?

i tried so far; updating drivers, using game boosters and selecting the nvidia card to run ( since it got a integrated intel hd 3000 aswell)

[roel222]

Zygomorphic wrote:
This is a good set of steps. Make sure you are running the latest drivers from nVidia, not ASUS. ASUS hardly ever updates theirs, so nVidia is better. Oh, to do the clean install, reboot into Safe Mode and uninstall there. Reboot into Safe Mode and install new drivers. Then reboot into Windows.

indeed asus never updates, but since a month ago Nvidia had no drivers aswell for my videocard, they released them now and i've used those it made a lil improvement but not much.

[roel222]

DaemonXR wrote:
U sure its i5 CPU? If yes which one? Is it i5-2450M??
What graphic card is that? There are few GT630M cards (GF106/116,GF108 and GF117) acc to notebookcheck.com!

What operating system you have?
What nVidia drivers u r using?
Did u instal nvidia drivers as they should be installed?
Latest WHQL is 306.97 (R304) and BETA 310.64 (R310).

This card IS capable of fluent gaming on low and mid settings (depended of game of cours). It is renamed GT540M if it have 96 shader units (GF108) or GT550 and 555 respectively!

It is probably something messy on your setup. I would recomend complete uninstall =>(clean install) of new nVidia drivers and after that go check your performance. It can be software issue but faulty graphic card is also something to consider after you exhaust all other options.

Using the newest driver updates from the nvidia website, 306.97 indeed
OS = w7 Home Premium
i've aswell tried to even completely put it back to starting settings didnt work either

[roel222]

Chino wrote:
Please download 3DMark Vantage and run the Performance test. Post the results here when finished. 🙂

downloading right now, will scan and post as soon as possible but consider it to be done later today since im not at home right now

http://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/4436393 <<< results

[Chino]

roel222 wrote:
downloading right now, will scan and post as soon as possible but consider it to be done later today since im not at home right now

http://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/4436393 <<< results

Looks normal. One last test.

1. I'm going to need you to go back into the 3D options in the NVIDIA panel. Restore everything to default and save.
2. Download GPU-Z.
3. Download EVGA Precision X.
4. Then download this program Unigine Heaven
5. Run EVGA Precision X. At the bottom of the program you'll see some graphs. Double click it. A new window should open. Enlarge the window so that all the graphs show.
6. With EVGA Precision X opened, run Unigine Heaven and select the Extreme Preset.
7. Enjoy the 6 minutes of eye candy.
8. When finished, open GPU-Z.
9. Take screenshot (Rearrange all the program windows if necessary so they're all visible) and upload it here. 🙂

[roel222]

okay ill be doing this in aprox. 1,5 hour

[X-ROG]

What is your 3 year old laptop spec you are comparing to?

[roel222]

MarshallR@ASUS wrote:
What is your 3 year old laptop spec you are comparing to?

Specs are something like; 4gb ram, 1 gb video momory and i dont know rly which videocard since him not at home but i will post that as soon as possible

[roel222]

DaemonXR, i will follow these steps when im home today.

[DaemonXR]

And be sure u use DriverSweeper from Guru 3D to remove all remnant of old driver in your sys!

This is discussed elswhere but i will give it a fast run for u:

Step1:

Boot normally and download latest WHQL or BETA from nVidia directly on ur desktop (i would recomend WHQL firs)
Download DriverSweeper from Guru3d and extracr archive in a folder you create on your hdd
Step2:

In normal mode go to your control panel=>Programs=>uninstal program
Uninstall your nVidia in this order:
nVidia update (if you have it, if not proceed)
nVidia 3D vision controler driver (if you have it, if not proceed)
nVidia 3D vision driver (again if u have it)
nVidia Physiks
nVidia graphic driver (it will ask for restart after this so u do restart and be prepared to tap F8 while boot to enter boot menu)
Choose safe mode and log as admin

Step 3:

Now when in safe mode go to your NVIDIA folder e.g c:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\310.64 (in my case) and delete folder 310.64 (again my case)
this is because to prevent OS to auto install old driver again
Now execute DriverSweeper.exe and click "analyse"
After that check only "nVidia - display" & "nVidia -Physx" (DO NOT check any other check box or u will mess ur system) and click "Clean"

Step4:

After cleaning finished u restart your machine to normal boot and install new drivers from your desktop
When nVidia installer starts do not use "Express", instead use "custom" installation and check "clean install" check box then hit "Next"!

Uncheck 3Dvision driver if your card do not support 3D vision or you dont need one
Uncheck nVidia update if you plan to install your drivers in future using this metod (which is best metod)
Uncheck HD audio driver if your card do not support audio through HDMI feat

Hit install and when finish restart your machine
Thats it
Hope you will fix that issue

Cheers

[DaemonXR]

any forward movement 🙂