Hi TomsHardware! This is my first post, so I hope I'm following the forum rules in this post. If not, feel free to inform me.
I have a Lenovo Ideapad 700 which I bought a year ago as part of my polytechnic's BYOD policy, and I've also been using it as my personal gaming laptop. However, I've noticed a few months back that it has been running games very poorly as of late. Taking Overwatch as an example, the laptop can't run it at a decent frame rate unless I set the render scale to 50% and all the graphics quality settings to low, which is ridiculous as my laptop specifications definitely exceed Overwatch's recommended specifications.
These are my system specifications, according to Piriform Speccy:
Operating system: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700HQ @ 2.60GHz
RAM: 16GB Dual Channel Unknown @ 1064MHz (15-15-15-36)
Motherboard: Lenovo Skylake H DDR4 RVP11 (U3E1)
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 530 (integrated) / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
Storage: 465GB Toshiba MQ02ABF050H-SSHD-8GB (SATA)
Screen resolution: 1920x1080 @ 60Hz
These are the things I've done to try and tackle the issue:
- Ensured that games were using the GTX 950M graphics card instead of the integrated Intel graphics card
- Ran CCleaner and Defragger
- Set power settings to Maximum Performance
- Plugged in laptop for playing games
- Updated all graphics drivers
Despite all that, my games haven't seen much improvement in performance.
I have also run a PassMark performance test on my laptop, which returned me these results:
PassMark Rating Score: 2188 (55%)
CPU Mark: 8543 (75%)
2D Graphics Mark: 661 (67%)
3D Graphics Mark: 2063 (58%)
Memory Mark: 2572 (88%)
At the moment, I am circumventing this problem by setting the screen resolution of my games with frame rate issues to 1280x720 screen resolution, which gives me a decent framerate with good graphics settings. It is admittedly getting a little frustrating having to lower my settings on a computer that should be able to handle my games with a breeze, so I hope I could get some insight from you guys. Any answers to my topic will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
- Julian
I have a Lenovo Ideapad 700 which I bought a year ago as part of my polytechnic's BYOD policy, and I've also been using it as my personal gaming laptop. However, I've noticed a few months back that it has been running games very poorly as of late. Taking Overwatch as an example, the laptop can't run it at a decent frame rate unless I set the render scale to 50% and all the graphics quality settings to low, which is ridiculous as my laptop specifications definitely exceed Overwatch's recommended specifications.
These are my system specifications, according to Piriform Speccy:
Operating system: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700HQ @ 2.60GHz
RAM: 16GB Dual Channel Unknown @ 1064MHz (15-15-15-36)
Motherboard: Lenovo Skylake H DDR4 RVP11 (U3E1)
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 530 (integrated) / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
Storage: 465GB Toshiba MQ02ABF050H-SSHD-8GB (SATA)
Screen resolution: 1920x1080 @ 60Hz
These are the things I've done to try and tackle the issue:
- Ensured that games were using the GTX 950M graphics card instead of the integrated Intel graphics card
- Ran CCleaner and Defragger
- Set power settings to Maximum Performance
- Plugged in laptop for playing games
- Updated all graphics drivers
Despite all that, my games haven't seen much improvement in performance.
I have also run a PassMark performance test on my laptop, which returned me these results:
PassMark Rating Score: 2188 (55%)
CPU Mark: 8543 (75%)
2D Graphics Mark: 661 (67%)
3D Graphics Mark: 2063 (58%)
Memory Mark: 2572 (88%)
At the moment, I am circumventing this problem by setting the screen resolution of my games with frame rate issues to 1280x720 screen resolution, which gives me a decent framerate with good graphics settings. It is admittedly getting a little frustrating having to lower my settings on a computer that should be able to handle my games with a breeze, so I hope I could get some insight from you guys. Any answers to my topic will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
- Julian