5-7 FPS with GTX1070 gaming laptop

[ChickenCat]

I saw that others had fps problems, but does 5-7 FPS with medium and low settings running 1080p realistic? I have an ASUS gaming laptop with i7- 7700HQ, GTX1070, 16GB RAM, all SSD, not a rocket but still have no problems with most of the games.

I guess I just need to wait for the new NVIDIA dedicated driver + BG3 patch, but I do wonder if I am alone with this.

[Haven]

Close Chrome. BG3 is heavy on RAM right now and if youhave ~16 GB or less of RAM then you're going to be spiking into maxing it out pretty frequently. There is not any effective smoothing or anything for FPS so this is immediately visible as massive frame drops. There will still be spikes, especially around loading times, but it's a lot more manageable.

[ChickenCat]

yep, game still crashes, and fps at 7-8, keep up the great work

[Acr0no]

Same here, istant crash on DX11. So i switched on vulkan and generally i stay on 60 fps, but sometimes the framerate dropped on 30 fps without reason.
I've a 5600 xt

[NotMisty]

This seems to be an issue with laptops.

[Jacks]

My GTX1660Ti gets rekt on Vulcan, switched to Dx11 and it runs like a charm.

[DarkWaterSong]

Have you checked what your system uses when idles?

Like I have a ASUS ROG Zephyrus S GX502GV Gaming Laptop (Intel i7-9750H, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB) and when I am not running a game I am using around 30% of my RAM. If I run a bunch of stuff in the background, like Dropbox and others I can eat over 15 and 20% of my processor before I even launch a game. Also I can forget running anything more powerful then solitare if I am up when my 2am backup runs along with a AV scan.

Also I get over 50 frames at worst with this game IF I turn off all my background processes.

[Acr0no]

Originally posted by Jitorin:

This seems to be an issue with laptops.

Nope, istant crash happened to me on a desktop pc. And my desktop pc is nearly new with 16gb ram, ryzen 7 3800x and asus rog strix 5600xt (build it on may 2020 during quarantine lol)

[Sklendath]

1660super, i7-5820k, 16GB ram...1920/1200 - fullscreen, DX11, Overall preset Ultra and everything runs smoothly

[Smerk]

I run the same laptop Acer predator g 571 to be precise. Runs well on medium here. Between 30 and 50 frames. Have not had a problem.

[ChickenCat]

Originally posted by Jitorin:

This seems to be an issue with laptops.

Yeah something like that, definitely with ASUS ROG laptops, and more specifically with the Vulkan API. I had similar problems with No Man's Sky.
But then some people reported no problems on a gaming laptop, so not really that black n white. (and that's why this is so frustrating)

I built a new desktop, that was my solution, no gaming laptops for a while. As per above, the hardware is too specialised. After some point in time nobody (NVIDIA, ASUS, INTEL, WINDOWS, etc...) bothers to update their software/firmware and you left with these messes...