I used to have access to two laptops.

The first was a Lenovo V14 G2 ITL, my personal laptop with:

• CPU: Intel Core i5-1135G7 (11th Gen)
• GPU: Intel Iris Xe integrated graphics
• RAM: 12GB (8+4) DDR4
• Storage: 512GB NVMe SSD
• OS: Windows 11

The other was an HP office laptop with:

• CPU: Intel Core i7-1285G7 ( 12th gen)
• GPU: Intel Iris Xe Graphics
• RAM: 16GB (8GB + 8GB) DDR4
• OS: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit

Unfortunately, I lost access to both. One laptop eventually died and the other had to be returned to the company.

I've now got an HP Victus with a 13th-gen i5 + RTX 2050 4GB (40W) and 24GB RAM.
And before anyone jumps down my throat, it was the only thing I could afford. I got it dirt cheap for 34K INR.

And this is where I'm a little confused.

I spent years gaming on Intel Iris Xe, and I ended up playing 600+ games on it. I knew exactly what I was getting into. I never expected it to magically run games at high settings. My philosophy was basically if I can make a game playable, I'll play it. 😂

I played things like Red Dead Redemption 2, Elden Ring, the Uncharted games, The Witcher series, GTA IV, GTA V, and a huge number of other games on Iris Xe. Everything was basically Low settings, everything I could turn off was turned off, resolution scaled down when necessary, etc. I used Potato Mods, config tweaks, launch options, resolution scaling and pretty much every optimization I could find. I was perfectly happy squeezing 25–35 FPS out of something that technically wasn't supposed to run well on integrated graphics.

So when I finally moved to an RTX 2050, even though I knew it was a low-end GPU, I was expecting a massive jump.

Not necessarily Ultra settings at 60 FPS. That's not what I'm asking for.

I was expecting the 2050 to take the games I was already playing on Iris Xe and make them considerably smoother, while also opening the door to a whole new category of games that simply weren't practical on Iris Xe. Games like Space Marine 2 were the kind of thing I was hoping would finally become playable.

Instead, I'm finding myself doing almost exactly what I was doing before: everything on Low, shadows/reflections/volumetrics/etc. disabled, resolution lowered or scaled, and constantly looking for optimization tweaks.

And that's honestly what has surprised me.

I know the RTX 2050 is a low-end laptop GPU. I know it's not a 4060 or 4070, and I wasn't expecting miracles. But after spending so long squeezing every last bit of performance out of Iris Xe, I expected the jump to a dedicated NVIDIA GPU to feel much more dramatic.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the actual difference between these GPUs, or maybe the 40W power limit on my particular 2050 is holding it back more than I realize. The 24GB RAM is also a single-stick configuration, so I'm wondering whether memory bandwidth is affecting performance as well.

So I'm hoping someone here can explain this to me.

How big should the real-world performance difference be between Iris Xe and a 40W laptop RTX 2050?

And more importantly, am I getting the performance I should be getting from this laptop?

Are there NVIDIA Control Panel settings, Windows power settings, BIOS settings, RAM configuration issues, Optimus/iGPU behaviour, thermals, drivers, or anything else I should check?

I'm not expecting this thing to run every modern AAA game at 60 FPS. I'm a low-end gamer; I've spent years making games run on hardware that had no business running them. 😅

I just want to understand whether the RTX 2050 is actually performing normally and I'm simply expecting too much, or whether there's something about my particular setup that's leaving a significant amount of performance on the table.

I'd really appreciate advice from people who have actually used these low-end laptop GPUs and know how much you can realistically squeeze out of them

EDIT:-

https://i.postimg.cc/FH8P2nTk/Screenshot-2026-09-03-135729.png

Laptop temp when plugged in, sitting on a cooling pad, and running Blood of Dawnwalker at around 18 to 20 fps ( unplayable)

EDIT 2:
So what I did was disable my iGPU and downgrade my NVIDIA driver for the 2050 and well, I am now able to play Black Myth: Wukong. Been playing it since 7 this morning ( 7/09/2026), and I'm getting around 50–60 FPS on medium settings at 1080p.

I’ll test some other games as well, but so far it seems to be working. Thank you all for the advice and for helping me figure this out

I have been thinking about something: with the current ram prices on DDR5 (and DDR4 to a degree) how viable would it be to assemble a DDR3 Machine?

Theoretically, with a reasonable GPU like a 1060 or 1660, it should be able to run stuff like Baldur's Gate 3 or even Cyberpunk (with a lot of tweaking).

Or am I dreaming?

I came here as lots of people here try to take the maximum out of their hardware. And I had this thought today.

Edit: this caught more attention than I expected. Thanks a lot for the responses! I have a few different systems, including a DDR3 one. I'm gonna assemble it for "science" and put some games to the test, in line with your comments. Thanks a lot everyone!

Hi,

I have an old Windows 10 laptop with an i5 8th gen CPU, nvidia mx250 2gb vram GPU, and 8gb of RAM. Seeing the current pc prices I wanted to squeeze a few months to a year of use out of this laptop by playing older titles at 30fps+.

I have a 1440p oled monitor but obviously I cannot run 1440p or even medium 1080p with my specs. I am currently playing RDR1 with 1080p 30fps low but it doesn't look great on the monitor. I tried 720p thinking integer scaling would make the game look better but it looks much blurrier than 1080p. Are there some graphics settings that can make 720p or 1080p look good in that monitor? (FSR or lossless scaling but I have zero experience with them)

So, I have a GTX 1050 2gb Galax (640 shading units, 128 bit). Currently i'm running RE4 remake at 40-50 fps, Death Stranding 1 at 40-50fps, and Death Stranding 2 at 20-30fps. About overclock, now im achieving +800Mhz in memory and 200Mhz in core.

Talking in r/hardwarebrasil , some people recommended me to undervolt the gpu to increase the performance, wonder if its worth it? Someone who have do it, any tips?

For context of the surroundings, i have:
I5-9400F
16gb DDR4
Games running on a SATA SSD
Thermaltake 450W

Is it better to buy Games in gog rather than steam? I mean cause the launcher Is lighter

I thought with these specs, i would be confortably playing GTA5 on low settings. Even in 800*600, i'm barely getting 10-14 FPS.

I experience it too in other games like FIFA 20, F1 2020, valorant and rocket league with CPU temps up to 80 celcius.

Even my old PC with core I3 4160 + hd 4400 + 12GB RAM + HDD is performing better than my laptop on the games i've already listed. It4s just unplayable.

I ran a benchmark yesterday and they said out of 100 pc with my exact same config, my laptop is ranked 83rd worst.

Can someone help me fix it or there's nothing to do? I will be happy even with 25 FPS

EDIT: I’ve found the problem this morning. My CPU is locked to 800mhz when gaming. I removed my battery and tried, it was then locked to 1200-1300 sometimes up to 1800 and dropping directly to 1200mhz. I had less fps than playing with the battery enabled though. Could that be a battery issue since my PC randomly shutdown below 30% without any warning? And then, is there any fix or i’m just buying a new battery?

My game runs at around 50 fps,and lets say I want to cap it to 40 so its more stable,my monitor is 60hz so is vsync going to cause a lot of input lag?specs are i5 3570k,rx 570 4gb and 16gb ram

Or should I just cap it to 30 fps and disable vsync?

running the game on AMD ryzen 3 4350g 4 cores 8 threads vega 6 igpu, 8gb single channel ram 2666ghz windows 10 pro on SSD. unless i am making a mistake, my system exceeds the recommended system requirements for the game, i have getting <26FPS at 1080p very high. I have also installed DXVK, but the difference is negligible.

Hello,

i have gtx 1050 Ti and ryzen 5 5600x, 16 gb ddr4 ram...

certain games like tekken 8 or marvel tokon fighting souls may often be short of 60 fps by 4 to 6 frames...

I am extremely curious and feel encouraged by what this software seems to be able to do, but, truthfully, i do not fully understand it, i am not very smart or technically oriented.

Yet, even in my dumb condition, something made me feel "there's someting interesting" about losless scaling.

Would anybody be ok with guiding and explaining my dumb butt about this software, and maybe discuss how i could use it on the games that fall short of the 60 fps?Maybe even further, as in how it could (if i understand right) help running modern games[?

Thank you and sorry!

(The bot said to say the budget and location...my location is Argentina, and my budget is $180,000 argentinean pesos per month.)

I’ve been having the itch to play Minecraft again after a few years but when I went to boot it up, my computer had trouble running it. The game is incredibly laggy and the frame rate dips into the single digits with each movement. I’ve tried to lower the settings as much as I can and it hasn’t helped much. I tried downloading/using optifine and that also didn’t do much. I even tried an older version (18.2) and even then it struggled to run it. I don’t really know what to do next.

If this helps, these are my current specs:
RAM- 12 gb
Processor- Intel(R) Core i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20 GHz
Graphics Card- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4 gb), Intel(R) HD graphics card 4600 (113 mb)

I’ll be honest and say that I know little to nothing about what are considered good specs for a PC to game on. I’m guessing my issue is my graphics card, but I don’t even know what I would upgrade to that isn’t going to be wildly expensive. If anyone has any advice on how I can get Minecraft to run well on my PC again (whether it means downloading a different optimization software or purchasing a new graphics card) please let me know! Thank you 🙏🏼

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So my internal storage is pretty limited, so I’m trying to figure out a way to store and manage a larger library of games.

For those of you dealing with low storage space, how do you handle it? Is it realistic to store and play less demanding or older games directly off separate USB flash drives (or external drives), or does the read/write speed cause too many stutters/loading issues?

want to hear how you guys organize your drives or if there are any specific setups/formatting tips you’d recommend for this.

Windows 10 300 GB ssd 10 GB RAM

This Wednesday I finally decided to send my pc to a technician after constantly being bombarded by blue screens even when playing older games. "I had at least 5 bluescreen whike playing Darksiders 1 the past week.

So I was left with no computer and after three days of doing other things I decided to try building up a machine from all the old obsolete parts I had accumulated throughout the years on the rare occasions I would update something.

I have never been good with computers and this was the first build I built with my own hand with ample help from youtube and google and ai for troubleshooting.

The parts:

Gt 730 2gb gpu (I could have sworn mine was 1gb and didnt have a fan, this one however had a fan attached on bent-nearly broken pins that said gtx geforce on it.

Processor g2030

Motherboard asus h61mk 2 ram slot card

4gbs of ddr3 Ram

A beaten vero pc case with some extra usb ports and a cd drive, but again I had no sata cables for the drive.

I had a faulty Scorpion? Power supply that sparked but I found a 500w modular with sime missing cables that looked newish, I guess the missing sata cables were on my current computer on the technician. I picked the modular to avoid the risk of a fire.

No spare hard drive or ssd as I didnt want to format the old disks I used for external drives and backups and I also didnt have sata cables at hand anyway. I found a way to boot windows xp lite from a 12gb usb stick with a program that uses the ram to run windows instead.

So here it was my first build. Nothing went according to plan, my gt730 was shortcircuited, the fan span but I had no image even when I a plugged the vga on my motherboard it kept shorting and the only solution was to remove the gpu to use the intergrated graphics of the processor.

The extra usbs of my case were fried and the machine was shutting down every 15 seconds to protect itself until I unplugged it. And the boot pins of the motherboard didnt work with the screw driver method, I had to connect the reset pins to the start up button as instructed by google and that worked.

I was missing screws to secure things and I used whatever I had in hand from a box of loose random screws.

The glorious result! I have a semi functioning computer, with a g2030 intergrared graphics running windows xp lite/live from 2gb free storage/12 gb overall thumb drive and operating them on my 4gb ddr3 ram, leaving me with 3 gb ram available, and I am currently connecting a 40gb free storage hhd external drive to instal some games on the same hhd and run them from it. If all goes well I will be able to play some Hitman Silent assassin or Baldurs gate 1 from my gog backups :). No way I am attempting to connect that thing to the internet. Still, I feel this is a win for me.

Think my laptop is actually considered low spec nowadays, I can't afford replacing it atm but it can run most games I'm actually interested in so I'm not really fussed about it.

Here in Europe it's been getting pretty hot sometimes lately and I tried running a UE game and it went poorly, had to tweak the Engine.ini to get 60 FPS. The fans were loud as hell, they got less loud after the Engine tweak tho. Apparently the pc does affect the room's heat so I was looking for ways to reduce the heat it generates.

And that's how I found out about undervolting. Does it really have no downsides? Almost seems too good to be true. I haven't set it up yet tho. Apparently it also helps with lifespan I've had this laptop for almost 3 years now so I really should slap myself in the face rn. I want this laptop to survive as long as possible really. Btw you guys got any other tips for lifespan?

i mostly play indie games, however they do still lag/stutter sometimes :< does anyone have advice?

specs as per rule 4:

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System:

Kernel: 7.0.0-30-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc

Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.6.3 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0

Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Machine:

Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 14-ep2xxx v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis:

type: 10 serial: <superuser required>

Mobo: HP model: 8E2B v: 89.26 serial: <superuser required> part-nu: B5VU3UA#ABA

uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI v: F.07 date: 11/05/2025

Battery:

ID-1: BAT0 charge: 43.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 43.1/43.1 Wh (100.0%) volts: 12.9 min: 11.2

model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: full cycles: 1

CPU:

Info: quad core model: Intel N150 bits: 64 type: MCP smt: <unsupported> arch: Alder Lake rev: 0

cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 6 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 3203 high: 3309 min/max: 700/3600 cores: 1: 3284 2: 3309 3: 2961 4: 3258

bogomips: 6451

Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx

Graphics:

Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-N [Intel Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel

arch: Gen-12.2 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0

chip-ID: 8086:46d4 class-ID: 0300

Device-2: Luxvisions Innotech HP True Vision HD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0

speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 30c9:00c7 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: modesetting

unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1

Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99") s-diag: 414mm (16.31")

Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x1442 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 112

size: 309x173mm (12.17x6.81") diag: 354mm (13.9") modes: 1366x768

API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris device: 1 drv: swrast gbm:

drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris inactive: wayland

API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.2.8-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 glx-v: 1.4

direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (ADL-N) device-ID: 8086:46d4

API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 layers: 7 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A

device-ID: 8086:46d4 device: 1 type: cpu driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000

Audio:

Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-N PCH High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard

driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:54c8 class-ID: 0401

API: ALSA v: k7.0.0-30-generic status: kernel-api

Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active

2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin

Network:

Device-1: Realtek vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw89_8852bte v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s

lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b520 class-ID: 0280

IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>

IF-ID-1: tailscale0 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: full mac: N/A

Bluetooth:

Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1

bus-ID: 1-8:4 chip-ID: 0bda:b86a class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>

Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3 lmp-v: 12

sub-v: 960c hci-v: 12 rev: 4be class-ID: 7c010c

Drives:

Local Storage: total: 596.14 GiB used: 166.87 GiB (28.0%)

ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: KIOXIA model: BG6 512GB size: 476.94 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4

tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 12000104 temp: 33.9 C scheme: GPT

ID-2: /dev/sda model: HN8T05DEHKX073 size: 119.2 GiB tech: N/A serial: N/A fw-rev: A802

scheme: GPT

Partition:

ID-1: / size: 467.89 GiB used: 166.86 GiB (35.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2

ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1

Swap:

ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 3.2 MiB (0.2%) priority: -1 file: /swapfile

USB:

Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1

chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900

Device-1: 1-3:2 info: 2.4G Receiver type: keyboard,mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid

interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 3554:fc03 class-ID: 0301

Device-2: 1-5:3 info: Luxvisions Innotech HP True Vision HD Camera type: video driver: uvcvideo

interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 500mA chip-ID: 30c9:00c7 class-ID: fe01

serial: <filter>

Device-3: 1-8:4 info: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2

rev: 1.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:b86a class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>

Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s lanes: 1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003

class-ID: 0900

Sensors:

System Temperatures: cpu: 71.0 C mobo: N/A

Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 0

Repos:

Packages: 3121 pm: dpkg pkgs: 3082 pm: flatpak pkgs: 39

No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list

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Info:

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Processes: 300 Power: uptime: 15h 28m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle wakeups: 1

hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 255 target: graphical (5) default: graphical

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Hello guys

I'm playing on ThinkPad t470s with i5-7200u and integrated Intel 620HD, works on Windows 11

What can I do in the system and in general to get the full performance of this specs?

I've already changed power plans and such basics, but there's probably something else I don't know about that will provide better performance.

Pls share your ideas and tips

what is actually limiting my fps in sekiro

i have an i5 1135g7

iris xe graphics

with 16gb of ram

on windows 11

while running sekrio i decided to turn on the xbox gamebars performance widget and noticed neither my cpu or gpu is being utilized a lot

i asked gemini whats wrong and it said despite my gpu only being used 60% lacks the horsepower to run it at higher fps ill attach a screenshot of the usage

screenshot

do not pay attention to the fps unlocker i know i needed to run in full screen but i can't forcefully disable the vsync anyways since i have an intel

I’d like to post my gameplay videos, but my PC can barely run the game-let alone run it and record at the same time. I do record in low resolution (720p at most), but posting in that format these days is a no-go; it really needs to be at least 1080p.

Can anyone recommend a tool for upscaling that doesn't require a high-end PC-something that would run on my humble setup?

• Windows 10 Enterprise
• FX 6300 8GB Ram
• RX 550 4GB vRam
• ssd sata 128gb (system) + hd 2tb (data)

Guys, please! No jokes like "record Minesweeper" or "record Solitaire." This is serious! Help!!! I am DESPERATE!

Whenever I play something graphic intensive, the display shuts off and plays the USB disconnection sound. It never happened before and I just got it the past week. It would sometimes happen during a game nonstop and the display would never come back unless I ALT+F4 the game completely. Please help me out!

Also my display setup is like this: GPU > HDMI Adaptor > VGA > Monitor. Figured that it might be worth sharing.

My pc specs:
i5-7400
8GB DDR4 1333Mhz
RX 580 8GB
650W Gamemax PSU
Windows 10

I've seen it run newer games such as Tsushima, far cry 6 but I've taken a look at its dx 12 support and saw it doesn't support newer but still how did someone manage to run Tsushima or far cry 6? And saw it was 30+ fps on far cry 6 and 20+ fps on Tsushima which is more than enough also it's my brother's laptop which he doesn't need anymore and I don't remember full specs but it's an Intel, 16gb ram and windows 10

I just bought thinkpad l13 yoga gen 2 i5 1135G7 and 16gb of ram

According to youtube video i watch ot should be able to run it atleast to 24fps but mine is weird

The framerate is 16 fps and lower stuttering like hell and jumping all over the place but in some area like inside the house it stays a smooth 30fps but can stutter a bit to 27fps

This is on the lowest setting possible at 720p

But when i increase the graphics a little bit the performace stays exactly the same and when i lower the resolution to 800x600 it also stays the same

I ruled out temperature issue,driver issue(because i just updated it)

I check task manager and it said it gpu at 100% and cpu at barely 45%

A helping hand would be appreciated,thank you

On Windows, games can behave differently depending on whether they are High-DPI aware.

If a game is High-DPI aware, it generally ignores Windows Display Scale for its 3D rendering resolution and can render at the monitor’s full/native resolution.

So, for example, on a 4K display, changing Windows Scale from 100% to 250% may make the Windows interface larger, but the game can still render at 3840×2160.

This gives the best image quality, but it can be demanding on weaker GPUs. To improve FPS, you normally need to reduce the game’s resolution or Render Scale.

If a game is not High-DPI aware, Windows scaling can effectively reduce the resolution at which the game is rendered.

For example:

Windows Scale = 250%

1 ÷ 2.5 = 0.4

So the game may render at roughly 40% of the monitor's native width and height.

On a 3840×2160 monitor, that is roughly equivalent to:

1536×864

That is only 16% of the native pixel count, which can produce substantially higher FPS, although the image will be less sharp.

If you want maximum image quality in such a game, setting Windows Scale to 100% allows it to use the monitor's native resolution.

Some games also provide their own Render Scale setting. In that case, you can reduce the rendering resolution even further.

For example:

Windows Scale 250% + Render Scale 60%

0.4 × 0.6 = 0.24

The game would render at about 24% of native width and height, or only about 5.8% of the monitor's native pixel count.

That can make a very large difference on low-end GPUs.

My game Alien Grounds currently has High DPI support disabled for exactly this reason, while also providing a Render Scale setting, so players with weaker PCs and high-resolution laptop displays have another way to trade image quality for FPS.

Important: this isn't universal behavior for every Windows game - fullscreen mode, engine, DPI-awareness implementation and resolution settings can all affect what actually happens.

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I recently bought a lenovo Thinkpad e16 gen 3. It came with a Ryzen 7 250, radeon 780m igpu and 16 gigs of ram. I have since added a 8gb stick of ram to give more room to the igpu. I understand that this is not a gaming laptop but the performance has been severely lacking for the specifications.

The temps for the laptop under stress are pretty low (around 60°C) so my main concern is that the gpu is underclocked/throttles easily. I tried going into the bios to check if theres anything I can do but it's extremely basic.

Is there any way to get more performance or am I just stuck with what I have?

SPECS:

i5 4460

RTX 3050 (6gb version)

12gb ddr3 1600mhz

Hi y'all, I haven't used my pc in a while so when I opened fh6 to play I noticed that it was struggling to hit 20fps. So I ran passmark and the gpu 3d score came out to be 4010 pts, it should score around 10k, so I restarted and the score climbed to 7450 pts. Then I removed the pcie riser and slotted the gpu directly to the mobo and I got 7730 pts. But this pc with the same exact setup used to score 10k pts (even on the riser). I accidently once limited my gpu to 80% power and it scored 8500 pts. Now I'm struggling to crack 8k pts on 100% power.

I have reseated the gpu, cleaned the gpu, the slots the shebang but still can't even crack 8k. Please help me

Well, recently I got a laptop with the following specs:

• CPU: Intel Core i5-5200U
• GPU: Nvidia Geforce 940M (2GB DDR3)/Intel HD Graphics 5500
• RAM: 6GB (1x4GB, 1x2GB DDR3 1600Mhz)
• OS: Windows 10 LTSC
• Screen resolution: 1366x768p

I want to record gameplays of Geometry Dash, maybe at 1280x720p (But it MUST be at 60FPS). For the GD players here: No, I don´t meant showcasing (If that was the case I would rely on tools that are in Geode mods, like Eclipse+ffmpeg API), but recording at the same time I play for like verifications or formal completions. And nope: I would be using my phone as a handcam.

I tried using OBS Studio an configurating it to use QSV/h264 for encoder (Intel Quick-Sync from the iGPU, while the Geforce 940M would be rendering the game), but it throws a error when starting the recording. It works using software encoding, but of course both my iGPU/CPU usage peaks at almost 100%, which isn´t very good for the game performance (I mean, yeah, I can get +144FPS on a lot of levels, but in the heavier ones, where it barely keeps 80FPS, the recording could make them drop awfully).

There´s another option for internal recording, or should I just cope with? Looking for your answers. c:

A few weeks ago, I started noticing drops in my games' 1% lows much more clearly. I used to have an AOC 60Hz 5ms monitor and never really paid much attention to this, but because of work, I ended up getting an AOC 24G4/P (180Hz). I don't know if it's due to the lower 0.5ms response time or the high refresh rate, but ever since I started playing on it, I've noticed these drops much more frequently.

At first, it didn't bother me. I beat Death Stranding, Resident Evil Requiem, and Pragmata over the past few months, and while I saw that some areas caused bottlenecks, it either happened less often or I just didn't notice it as much. For some reason, though, these drops have started driving me crazy lately—to the point where every game I play, I have the overlay on constantly monitoring frame pacing.

I’d love to get your opinions on this. I've read in a few places that it could be caused by RAM frequency, SSD read speeds, CPU bottlenecks, chipset drivers, BIOS settings, pagefile configuration, etc.

Some friends told me that micro-stuttering like this is normal for my setup, especially during transitions like changing areas, spawning lots of enemies, autosaving, or during heavy action scenes.

The drops are very brief. Usually, if I'm playing at 60 FPS, the 1% low drops to around 18–25 FPS during these moments, but most of the time it stays solid between 50 and 56.

My Specs:

• CPU: Intel Core i5-10400F
• Motherboard: ASUS Prime B560M-A
• RAM: 2x 8GB RAM @ 2400MHz
• GPU: RTX 3050 8GB
• Storage: 1TB SATA SSD (for games) + Kingston NV3 NVMe SSD to Windows (6000MB/s read / 4000MB/s write)

I'm still a bit of a novice with some of these technical details, so I'd really appreciate any insight on whether this points to an actual issue or if it's just expected behavior for this hardware. Thanks a lot in advance!