GeForce GTX 870M - very bad performance

[FM Helldiver Radio]

I´ve got a GeForce GTX 870M and the NVIDIA GeForece Experience Tools suggests lowest settings. It even reduces my screen-resolution from 1920x1820 to 1600x900.

This way the Game looks worse than witcher 2
(Just played part 2 again to get the importable savegame i want, so i know how it looks like)

But even with this low settings i just get around 25 FPS


any suggestions?

[Black Sheep Wall]

You are probably using your integrated graphics.
You need set it so the game is actually using your 870m and not the integrated intel chip.

[FM Helldiver Radio]

i did set the game to use my GeForce now, but i did not change anything. I think it was used before also.

[iskrem]

Originally posted by Gooru:

i did set the game to use my GeForce now, but i did not change anything. I think it was used before also.

IM using the GTX 880m, im able to play on mostly ultra with hair off and foliage distance to high, 35-50 fps most of time

[FM Helldiver Radio]

Even while viewing the Messageboard in the first village i don´t get 30 FPS.

[ziro]

I have GTX860M and playing on 1600x900p, no hairworks, medium sharpening and almost everything Ultra, shadow medium, foliage medium, lock 30 fps.
Game is around 29 FPS

[zacharyb]

A gtx 870m is weaker than a gtx 660 which is the minimum requirement.

[gamertaboo]

Originally posted by zacharyb:

A gtx 870m is weaker than a gtx 660 which is the minimum requirement.

Might want to check those numbers again, there's less than a 2% difference overall, and the GTX 870m does many things much better.

http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=1975&gid2=591&compare=geforce-gtx-870m-3gb-vs-geforce-gtx-660

My GTX 860m plays TW3 at med-high settings, hairworks off, at 1080p getting 45-55 fps with occasional dips into the higher 30s in Novigrad. It's great when I'm away from my desktop.

Btw, you need to always take the term "minimum requirement" with a grain of salt. People are playing this game just fine with GTX 500 series GPUs, which happens every time a game Dev sets the "minimum requirement."

[zacharyb]

Originally posted by gamertaboo:

Originally posted by zacharyb:

A gtx 870m is weaker than a gtx 660 which is the minimum requirement.

Might want to check those numbers again, there's less than a 2% difference overall, and the GTX 870m does many things much better.

http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=1975&gid2=591&compare=geforce-gtx-870m-3gb-vs-geforce-gtx-660

My GTX 860m plays TW3 at med-high settings, hairworks off, at 1080p getting 45-55 fps with occasional dips into the higher 30s in Novigrad. It's great when I'm away from my desktop.

Btw, you need to always take the term "minimum requirement" with a grain of salt. People are playing this game just fine with GTX 500 series GPUs, which happens every time a game Dev sets the "minimum requirement."

Ya I know to take it with a grain of salt, but over half the people on the forums seem like they have no clue about computer hardware, and think just because they have a higher number their graphics card is better, and then there is a lot of others that don't realize that a mobile card doesn't equal a desktop card.

So I was just telling the OP that his card is weaker than the minimum. Granted I didn't know if that was normal fps for his card on this game, though by what you and others have said it seems like it's off by a large amount of fps.

[gamertaboo]

While that's true that a mobile card doesn't equal the same numbered desktop card, ex. a GTX 660 and a GTX 660m where the 660m is nowhere even remotely close to the desktop 660, now days they do equal A desktop card. For instance, the new GTX 980m equals a DESKTOP GTX 780. The GTX 860m Maxwell version is on-par with a Desktop GTX 750ti. etc.

Every new series of mobile GPU from Nvidia are getting much more powerful. So while you might understand this, for whatever reason there is this train of thought that is somehow still often present on the internet that notebooks cannot play demanding games. This is simply no longer true.

[Donio]

Same graphics card, i7 processor. I was able to get decent performance after uninstalling the device driver through the Control Panel, then re-install via GeForce Experience. Got around 30 frames easy after, I couldn't believe it.