Hello, so I bought a laptop 2 years ago:
ASUS A46CM (64 bit)
Original Pre-installed OS: Windows 7 Professional
Intel Core i3 (2 Cores, 1.8 Ghz)
[Integrated] Intel HD Graphics 4000
[Dedicated] NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M with 2 GB vRAM
4 GB DDR3 RAM
500 GB HDD
I play some games like CoD4 and Black Ops 2 and Minecraft frame rates are smooth, at about 30 - 40 fps. I play Battlefield 3 too, on medium settings and get about 30 fps
After a year I upgraded to Windows 8 Pro and started playing more games, and their performance was smooth, and I had no worries of lag at all.
I installed NVIDIA GeForce Experience and my drivers are updated weekly - monthly, but then I noticed my games started getting slower and slower gradually.
Far Cry 3 originally maintains a 45 fps performance on medium settings, and Battlefield 4 gets 30 - 40 fps performance on low settings.
Now they start to go to 30 - 20 fps. I tried everything from rolling back drivers to updating to latest drivers, putting my games on an ext. hard drive, clearing up my disk space.
When Windows 8.1 came out a year later, I updated to it, and my games run terrible. I tried fixing it, reading game setting forums, rechecking the DirectX versions I had, running every game I had on its lowest settings, anti-aliasing off, lowest textures and everything and of course, adding programs to the list in NVIDIA Control Panel (and setting it to Performace rather than Quality)
Far Cry 3, Black Ops 2, Battlefield 4 all on their lowest settings start with 30 fps, and then 5 seconds later drop down to 5 - 15 fps, and it only goes to 20 fps max, but drops down to 10 fps. I installed some games like Hitman: Absolution and Borderlands 2, and on their unchanged optimal settings, they also have the same results.
I thought the problem was my OS (Windows 8.1) so I clean-installed Windows 7 back, and it actually play games worse (crappy cut off audio) than Windows 8 or 8.1.
And now I upgraded (clean-install) to Windows 8, and the peformance was just was bad as how it was on 8.1, even when I had no additional bloatware installed except my Intel and Nvidia and Wi-Fi drivers. Now my laptop's using the 337.88 NVIDIA Driver.
I am really tired of this problem and I just want to get back to the state where my laptop was, when gaming was still smooth as it first was(not as smooth as gaming PCs but you get the point
If anyone can help me with this problem, I greatly appreciate it.
Thank You.
ASUS A46CM (64 bit)
Original Pre-installed OS: Windows 7 Professional
Intel Core i3 (2 Cores, 1.8 Ghz)
[Integrated] Intel HD Graphics 4000
[Dedicated] NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M with 2 GB vRAM
4 GB DDR3 RAM
500 GB HDD
I play some games like CoD4 and Black Ops 2 and Minecraft frame rates are smooth, at about 30 - 40 fps. I play Battlefield 3 too, on medium settings and get about 30 fps
After a year I upgraded to Windows 8 Pro and started playing more games, and their performance was smooth, and I had no worries of lag at all.
I installed NVIDIA GeForce Experience and my drivers are updated weekly - monthly, but then I noticed my games started getting slower and slower gradually.
Far Cry 3 originally maintains a 45 fps performance on medium settings, and Battlefield 4 gets 30 - 40 fps performance on low settings.
Now they start to go to 30 - 20 fps. I tried everything from rolling back drivers to updating to latest drivers, putting my games on an ext. hard drive, clearing up my disk space.
When Windows 8.1 came out a year later, I updated to it, and my games run terrible. I tried fixing it, reading game setting forums, rechecking the DirectX versions I had, running every game I had on its lowest settings, anti-aliasing off, lowest textures and everything and of course, adding programs to the list in NVIDIA Control Panel (and setting it to Performace rather than Quality)
Far Cry 3, Black Ops 2, Battlefield 4 all on their lowest settings start with 30 fps, and then 5 seconds later drop down to 5 - 15 fps, and it only goes to 20 fps max, but drops down to 10 fps. I installed some games like Hitman: Absolution and Borderlands 2, and on their unchanged optimal settings, they also have the same results.
I thought the problem was my OS (Windows 8.1) so I clean-installed Windows 7 back, and it actually play games worse (crappy cut off audio) than Windows 8 or 8.1.
And now I upgraded (clean-install) to Windows 8, and the peformance was just was bad as how it was on 8.1, even when I had no additional bloatware installed except my Intel and Nvidia and Wi-Fi drivers. Now my laptop's using the 337.88 NVIDIA Driver.
I am really tired of this problem and I just want to get back to the state where my laptop was, when gaming was still smooth as it first was(not as smooth as gaming PCs but you get the point
If anyone can help me with this problem, I greatly appreciate it.
Thank You.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro 64 bit