Do a clean installation of the video driver as explained here and make sure you set your application to run on High Performance from the NVIDIA Control Panel. Use this article for reference on how the use NVIDIA Optimus correctly.
Run an ePSA diagnostic and an AlienAutopsygaming test to check for hardware errors.
It worked. I am now running an average of 700+fps which is MARGINALLY slower than my desktop but completely acceptable of course. But the FPS also holds much more constant than my PC so that's a plus. I assume that if I put this into an external monitor I would expect an even better framerate?
I'm ashamed to say I hadn't tried that before. I had tried to disable the onboard video, I had UPDATED the Nvidia drivers and a host of other things.
With further testing I have found that the performance increase was through the on-board video. It is also much less consistent during certain situations such as high numbers of particles. Switching to the Nvidia card goes back to the low FPS I was getting earlier. According to the AW Command Center performance monitoring the GPU only works about 50% capacity. So I don't understand why it's not working harder to get the FPS to a stable level.
I believe what you see in the Command Center is actually the GPU fan usage. You can compare that information with Hwmonitor and also check for signs of overheating by following the steps here.
However, if no hardware problems are detected, you should take into consideration that desktop video cards are usually better than mobile cards. In your case, the Radeon HD 7700 series has better performance than the mobile GeForce 750M. You can compare video cards here.
Alienware-Naomi
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July 17th, 2014 13:00
Hi,
Do a clean installation of the video driver as explained here and make sure you set your application to run on High Performance from the NVIDIA Control Panel. Use this article for reference on how the use NVIDIA Optimus correctly.
Run an ePSA diagnostic and an AlienAutopsy gaming test to check for hardware errors.
Let me know how it goes.
BrandonDGoins
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July 17th, 2014 14:00
HOLY!
It worked. I am now running an average of 700+fps which is MARGINALLY slower than my desktop but completely acceptable of course. But the FPS also holds much more constant than my PC so that's a plus. I assume that if I put this into an external monitor I would expect an even better framerate?
I'm ashamed to say I hadn't tried that before. I had tried to disable the onboard video, I had UPDATED the Nvidia drivers and a host of other things.
Very very thankful for your help!
BrandonDGoins
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July 19th, 2014 13:00
With further testing I have found that the performance increase was through the on-board video. It is also much less consistent during certain situations such as high numbers of particles. Switching to the Nvidia card goes back to the low FPS I was getting earlier. According to the AW Command Center performance monitoring the GPU only works about 50% capacity. So I don't understand why it's not working harder to get the FPS to a stable level.
Alienware-Naomi
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July 21st, 2014 13:00
I believe what you see in the Command Center is actually the GPU fan usage. You can compare that information with Hwmonitor and also check for signs of overheating by following the steps here.
However, if no hardware problems are detected, you should take into consideration that desktop video cards are usually better than mobile cards. In your case, the Radeon HD 7700 series has better performance than the mobile GeForce 750M. You can compare video cards here.