The "Quick Questions that does not Deserve a Thread"...Thread. V3

[SEKCobra]

Means it's running too well.

[Makol]

Now I'm confused.

[SEKCobra]

Some games just cause coil whine, maybe it's capped at 120FPS or something like that.

[Makol]

Ah ok.

[SEKCobra]

The best test I've found is Overgrowth, that game causes extreme coilwhine.

[MaxOfS2D]

Anyone got recommendations for quality 2560x1440 screens? Especially in terms of color neutrality, color temperature etc

one that has gray grays, no matter if they're dark or bright :v:

[BiN4RY]

Monitors of that resolution are generally really expensive and costs about $750 - over $1k. Do you have a budget?

[MaxOfS2D]

[QUOTE=B!N4RY;38380451]Monitors of that resolution are generally really expensive and costs about $750 - over $1k. Do you have a budget?[/QUOTE]

around $600 at most

[BiN4RY]

This is $100 over your budget, but I would think it offers the best images for the price range

[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236294[/url]

There really aren't any good monitors under $700 for that resolution

[Loopoo]

I know "Can You Run It" is a terribly inaccurate site, but I seem to be able to pass the recommended specs (by a long shot) of games like Natural Selection 2, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare and Dishonored. However, when I actually run the games, I find I have to put the settings down, else there's quite a lot of lag.

These are the laptop specs below, is this to be expected, or am I doing something wrong that is causing the games to lag on Medium settings? I thought my laptop would be able to handle most games at high quite well, seeing as I have a GTX 675M. Unless the 675M is much crappier than it's supposed to be, due to the fact it's a laptop graphics card.

[QUOTE]Display 17.3" Full HD LED-Backlit Display with Matte Finished Surface (1920 x 1080) [$30.00]
Video & Graphics Card Nvidia GeForce GTX 675M GPU with 2GB GDDR5 Video Memory
CPU Processor 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3720QM Processor ( 6MB L3 Cache, 2.60GHz) [$70.00]
Thermal Compound Stock Standard Thermal Compound
Operating System Genuine MS Windows® 7 Home Premium 32/64-Bit Edition ( 64-Bit Preloaded )
Instant Windows 8 Pro Upgrade Offer with Windows 7 Purchase Yes, I will be upgrading to Windows 8 Pro Via Microsoft [$-15.00]
Memory 16GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 4 X 4GB [$50.00]
RAID Storage Options RAID-0 Storage ( Data Strip - Requires 2nd Hard Disk Drive with identical capacity as Primary HDD)
Primary Hard Disk Drive 500GB 7200rpm SATA2 Hard Drive
2nd Hard Disk Drive 500GB 7200rpm SATA2 Secondary Hard Drive in RAID configuration [$75.00][/QUOTE]

[Digimutant]

[QUOTE=loopoo;38380592]I know "Can You Run It" is a terribly inaccurate site, but I seem to be able to pass the recommended specs (by a long shot) of games like Natural Selection 2, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare and Dishonored. However, when I actually run the games, I find I have to put the settings down, else there's quite a lot of lag.

These are the laptop specs below, is this to be expected, or am I doing something wrong that is causing the games to lag on Medium settings? I thought my laptop would be able to handle most games at high quite well, seeing as I have a GTX 675M. Unless the 675M is much crappier than it's supposed to be, due to the fact it's a laptop graphics card.[/QUOTE]

You should be getting decent frame rates.

Power settings set to high performance?

[Loopoo]

[QUOTE=digigamer17;38380618]You should be getting decent frame rates.

Power settings set to high performance?[/QUOTE]

Power Options in the Control Panel are set to high performance. I had to knock practically everything down to medium in Chivalry, and turn off shadows and ambient effects and all that to get a decent framerate.

Can't think why it'd be running so poorly. Would updating the drivers for the VGA to the latest driver help somewhat?

[Digimutant]

[QUOTE=loopoo;38380627]Power Options in the Control Panel are set to high performance. I had to knock practically everything down to medium in Chivalry, and turn off shadows and ambient effects and all that to get a decent framerate.

Can't think why it'd be running so poorly. Would updating the drivers for the VGA to the latest driver help somewhat?[/QUOTE]

You could try the beta drivers.

What about the temps in game and idle?

Check the Optimus settings too

[Loopoo]

[QUOTE=digigamer17;38380640]You could try the beta drivers.

What about the temps in game and idle?

Check the Optimus settings too[/QUOTE]

Temps at idle are 45*C (can't be bothered finding the degree sign) and under load is 55*C.

How do I access the Optimus settings?

[alien_guy]

[QUOTE=loopoo;38380592]I know "Can You Run It" is a terribly inaccurate site, but I seem to be able to pass the recommended specs (by a long shot) of games like Natural Selection 2, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare and Dishonored. However, when I actually run the games, I find I have to put the settings down, else there's quite a lot of lag.

These are the laptop specs below, is this to be expected, or am I doing something wrong that is causing the games to lag on Medium settings? I thought my laptop would be able to handle most games at high quite well, seeing as I have a GTX 675M. Unless the 675M is much crappier than it's supposed to be, due to the fact it's a laptop graphics card.[/QUOTE]

The GTX 675M is slightly less powerful than a GTX 460.

I happen to have the 460 and I'd imagine it would be fine with those games, not sure how well it would fare at 1080p as my screen is 1440x900.

[Loopoo]

How well does a GTX 460 handle games? My GTX 560TI in my PC can handle most games maxed easily, with an FPS of around ~40 give or take.

[alien_guy]

[QUOTE=loopoo;38380684]How well does a GTX 460 handle games? My GTX 560TI in my PC can handle most games maxed easily, with an FPS of around ~40 give or take.[/QUOTE]

Well I run most games on high but I'm not running at 1080p as said above.

[Makol]

-snip-

Edit: thought Alien meant the GTX 460M.

[Shadaez]

Which model laptop did you get again?

[Loopoo]

NP9170 Sager Notebook. I have a fantastic CPU and (I overkilled) 16GB of RAM so I mean the only thing that can be holding me back for sure is the graphics card, even though I was under the impression the GTX 675M would be up to the task of running most games at medium-high without any significant FPS drop.

[Shadaez]

Run furmark 1080p benchmark and tell me the score you get. [url]http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/[/url]

[Loopoo]

Will do :) Restarting now quick, as I just updated the VGA drivers so I want to make sure it does the benchmark at it's best haha

[editline]9th November 2012[/editline]

Or, I'll do a before and after, see if there's any difference.

[lavacano]

Something keeps causing Fallout NV to lose focus and minimize, any ideas where to start looking?

Windowed mode is out of the question, don't bother suggesting it.

[Loopoo]

Lol, I BSOD'd during the benchmark. The GTX 675M was reaching temps of 93*C (Jesus Christ) so I guess that's why. The thermal paste they put in is standard and it sucks dick, but it's all good cause I got some nice thermal paste on it's way (24 carat diamond thermal paste, $16, not bad at all, especially since there'll be enough for both my laptop and PC). So until then, I don't know how I can benchmark my laptop without causing it to crash.

[editline]9th November 2012[/editline]

I don't know how to get my score, but I am 20FPS bang on, at the 1920x1080 benchmark, and then my GPU just gets hotter and hotter and at 90 degrees I gotta stop it.

[Shadaez]

93c shouldn't be hot enough to BSOD, what was the BSOD? [url]http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html[/url]

[Loopoo]

[QUOTE=Shadaez;38381230]93c shouldn't be hot enough to BSOD, what was the BSOD? [url]http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html[/url][/QUOTE]

I didn't catch it. It went up to 97 then BSOD'd. All seems to be good now, though. After updating the drivers, NS2 is running maxed out at ~32FPS, dropping down to ~20FPS during lots of combat. I'm happy with that, especially since NS2 is notoriously unoptimized.

[Digimutant]

[QUOTE=loopoo;38381346]I didn't catch it. It went up to 97 then BSOD'd. All seems to be good now, though. After updating the drivers, NS2 is running maxed out at ~32FPS, dropping down to ~20FPS during lots of combat. I'm happy with that, especially since NS2 is notoriously unoptimized.[/QUOTE]

Awesome, about the optimus settings, you'd find it in the Nvidia control panel. Sometimes my friend who has an AMD card in her computer, she asked if I could fix it for her and it turned out to be the catalyst settings on switching between dedi and the integrated. It was set to the integrated GPU so it was slow in Amnesia and the other games.

[Loopoo]

[QUOTE=digigamer17;38381358]Awesome, about the optimus settings, you'd find it in the Nvidia control panel. Sometimes my friend who has an AMD card in her computer, she asked if I could fix it for her and it turned out to be the catalyst settings on switching between dedi and the integrated. It was set to the integrated GPU so it was slow in Amnesia and the other games.[/QUOTE]

I don't see anywhere for Optimus settings in the control panel:

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Ekgbk.png[/IMG]

[Digimutant]

[QUOTE=loopoo;38381500]I don't see anywhere for Optimus settings in the control panel:

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Ekgbk.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

Thought you'd have opti- oh.

[Loopoo]

Thanks for the help though :) Played NS2 in maxed out graphics, it looked gorgeous and I enjoyed it a lot more than the first time around when everything was on low and I had a terrible resolution set to stop the lag.