Help with Laptop Graphics

[nappydwarf]

Hi, I recently bought an Alienware 13 with a gtx 960m, i7 5500u, 16gb ram, ssd etc. I downloaded some games and was having some trouble with frame rates. I forced the 960m to be prioritized, and when running the games (WoW, gw2) I could click on the Nvidia icon in the system tray and see that these games were running on the GPU.

I know that this setup isn't going to max everything out, but I expected better than less than 20fps in Guild Wars 2 with every setting turned down. That is why I think something is wrong, and am coming to you guys for help.

Another thing to note is that because the screen resolution is 3200×1800, I either had to change the OS resolution to 1080p to game, or go into the Intel control panel and stretch to fill out the screen at 1080p. I chose the latter.

Thanks for your help, let me know if there is any more information I can get for you.

 

[dragonoar]

Few things you can try:
- Use High Performance on your battery settings.
- Use High-Performance Nvidia Processor in your Nvidia Control Panel
- Try updating your drivers