Unacceptably low fps on GTX 970M Laptop!

[Black Walder Frey]

I've got an ASUS ROG GL502 laptop, with an i7-6700HQ 8 core CPU @2.60 GHz, 8 gigs of ram and a gtx970m. Despite all that when I do the benchmark for Deus Ex Mankind Divided on the lowest possible settings, everything turned off including vsync on DX11, 1920x1080 resolution I get an abyssmal average of 40 fps, with a peak of 56 fps and a minimum of 2fps. Frankly this is what I'd expect playing on Ultra, not very low! I'm on windows 10 x64, I have a cooling pad to prevent my PC from overheating and I ran Razer Cortex to close background apps to prevent RAM leaching. Does anyone know why this is happening or is Deus Ex Mankind Divided a poorly optimized game?

[Falcon712]

I had to bring the resolution down on my 980m do the option right under 1080p, I was running 60fps and it looked good enough for me.

[Vassago Rain]

M cards aren't even close to their equivalent desktop 'versions,' so no, that's not 'unacceptably low.'

[trek554]

while a minimum of 2fps is certainly odd, your average of 40 fps sounds about right for low settings at 1080p with a 970m. I tested it at 1080p on low with my 1070 and got 128 fps and my slightly oced gpu is 3 times faster than yours so you are just overestimating your hardware.

[гот-педовка]

DUDE ITS 9TH GAMES POPULATION AND AFTER THEM LAPTOPS WILL NEVER BE SUPPORTED.

IF YOU WANT TO PLAY BUY AN ACUTAL PC OR PUT THE 800x600 RESOLUTION

[rob]

really strange, I was able to almost max the game with the 980m @ 1080p, but VRAM was also maxed most of the time (4GB). The 970m usually have 3GB of vram so you cannot crank everything up (textures and shadow resolutions at ultra are VERY demanding on memory) but it should run the game decently at mix of medium/high settings with an average of 40 fps, still much better than the console version.
Some settings have very little impact on performance from off to on(low), have you actually tried tweaking them?

Try these settings:

MSAA: OFF
FOV: 75%
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filtering: 8x
Shadow Quality: Medium
Contact Hardening Shadows: Off
Temporal AA: On
Motion Blur: On
Depth of Field: On
Bloom: On
Volumetric Lighting: OFF
Subsurface Scattering: On
Cloth Physics: On
Ambient Occlusion: On
Tessellation: Off
Parallax Occlusion Mapping: On
Screenspace Reflections: Off
Sharpen: On
Chromatic Aberration: On
Level of Detail: Medium

[Mapwales]

970m is the bottle neck in your laptop it's not a full 970 card so dont expect it to work like one.

[Dante from Devil May Cry]

970M is vastly underpowered, you'll need to crank the resolution down. Considering the laptop model you have, the screen size is rather small for 1080p imo anyway, sure it can support it but doesn't mean it's any better than a slightly lower resolution.

[Jonny Sparta]

try fiddling with fullscreen settings, check nv control panel settings, prefer max performance, single display, anisotropic filter optimization,

maybe try hardware monitoring to see if your gpu is throttling, check operating temps, if so i'd recommend using msi afterburner to create a custom fan profile with boosted fan spd under your temp target

Im using a desktop 970 and having no issues so you can't be that far off