- Mar 10, 2014
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Hello,
I have recently bought the Lenovo Y50 with the UHD 4k display and the top specs(16gb ram, 512 ssd, 860m 4gb) that I could get, and I am having a lot of screen related issues with this laptop.
First off when I got it, applications like origin will scale really small when my Windows 8 settings is at the highest (250%) size. Also other applications like chrome will appear to be pixely and not in 4k resolution when the close and minimize icons are clear and crisp along with everything else.
Some other issues I have been having are with gaming. According to the Nvidia benchmarks and reviews of other people's Y50s, the 860m should be able to play Battlefield 4 on high settings with good frames, but I get about 30 FPS on medium settings with the native 4k resolution. I have tried setting the resolution down to 1920X1080, but there is not much change at all.
In War thunder, the game launches in the 4k resolution and looks fine, but for some unknown reason, my cursor is only limited to the top left quadrant of the screen. I am able to click on anything within, but I cannot go outside. This issue gets resolved by reducing my resolution to 1920X1080, but on ultra settings, I get only 30 FPS max, when I got about 50 when I ran my gtx 660 ti on my desktop.
In Civ 5, the game launches the first time in a low screen resolution (like 1350X650 or something like that) and once I change it to the native screen resolution, the screen shriks down to about 7x5 inches. The best resolution that I founf works good with this screen is 1920X1200. Also when I play on max settings in Civ 5, I get about 13 FPS and to play comfortably I have to set me settings to medium or low.
These are some of the issues that I have come across with the Y50 so far. Everything else with is it just great. The screen, when it works, is crystal clear, and the keyboard is crisp and sexy. The track-pad could be better, but I use a mouse anyways, so meh. The audio is phenomenal and the computer runs very cool. I have not gone on my settings and deleted all of the Lenovo bloatware, which I have heard there is a LOT. Is there anything that I can do to improve my settings so I can play these games at the highest graphical quality and FPS/game-play? I really like this computer, but if this is not the right choice for the games that I am playing, is there another fairly thin gaming laptop that will solve my issue?
Thanks so much!
Alex
I have recently bought the Lenovo Y50 with the UHD 4k display and the top specs(16gb ram, 512 ssd, 860m 4gb) that I could get, and I am having a lot of screen related issues with this laptop.
First off when I got it, applications like origin will scale really small when my Windows 8 settings is at the highest (250%) size. Also other applications like chrome will appear to be pixely and not in 4k resolution when the close and minimize icons are clear and crisp along with everything else.
Some other issues I have been having are with gaming. According to the Nvidia benchmarks and reviews of other people's Y50s, the 860m should be able to play Battlefield 4 on high settings with good frames, but I get about 30 FPS on medium settings with the native 4k resolution. I have tried setting the resolution down to 1920X1080, but there is not much change at all.
In War thunder, the game launches in the 4k resolution and looks fine, but for some unknown reason, my cursor is only limited to the top left quadrant of the screen. I am able to click on anything within, but I cannot go outside. This issue gets resolved by reducing my resolution to 1920X1080, but on ultra settings, I get only 30 FPS max, when I got about 50 when I ran my gtx 660 ti on my desktop.
In Civ 5, the game launches the first time in a low screen resolution (like 1350X650 or something like that) and once I change it to the native screen resolution, the screen shriks down to about 7x5 inches. The best resolution that I founf works good with this screen is 1920X1200. Also when I play on max settings in Civ 5, I get about 13 FPS and to play comfortably I have to set me settings to medium or low.
These are some of the issues that I have come across with the Y50 so far. Everything else with is it just great. The screen, when it works, is crystal clear, and the keyboard is crisp and sexy. The track-pad could be better, but I use a mouse anyways, so meh. The audio is phenomenal and the computer runs very cool. I have not gone on my settings and deleted all of the Lenovo bloatware, which I have heard there is a LOT. Is there anything that I can do to improve my settings so I can play these games at the highest graphical quality and FPS/game-play? I really like this computer, but if this is not the right choice for the games that I am playing, is there another fairly thin gaming laptop that will solve my issue?
Thanks so much!
Alex
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