Performance Problems With GTX 1070 Laptop

[MelonLikeAFelon]

I need some technical support (and not from an Indian on the phone. I have a Gigabyte p57x v7 gaming laptop sporting a GTX 1070 (Note: this is NOT the Max-Q version). "A solid laptop" is what most would say. I thought so too: being able to play most games at near ultra graphics. But to my disappoint, a lot of games need the 1070 overclocked to function at medium graphics. VR is also the same except I'm meet with more motion sickness and migraines than disappoint (I have a very limited be library with Fallout 4 being my most played and most graphic intensive). With all these benchmark results that are associated with it, I feel like I got scammed.

What do you guys think? Am I doing something wrong? Are the settings all wrong, or is it the game?

[Space Coward]

Fix your power plan. It makes a huge difference for laptops.

It should be set to high performance when plugged in to deal with battery saving measures that will hurt performance.

[MelonLikeAFelon]

Originally posted by Comradicale:

Fix your power plan. It makes a huge difference for laptops.

It should be set to high performance when plugged in to deal with battery saving measures that will hurt performance.

I have tweaked with the power setting before. For most games, I have it on balanced while Vr and graphic intensive game are on high performance. But even doing this, the computer still caps considerably low. I have ran a benchmark test on it and it scored very well to most others like it.

[Cat with the Gat]

Haven’t played Onward (yet) nor do I have a 1070 (I have a 1080), but as general advice/fixes for when my 1080 was acting weird.

1. Under the Nvidia control panel, do you have your PhysX processor set to use your 1070? Rather than auto-select or cpu? I’ve noticed this improves some performance on certain games. Even ones that don’t use PhysX (to my knowledge)

2. I looked up your laptop, and it appears to have three display options: 1080p, 1440p, and 4k. Which display did you pick? 1080p should be easily playable at ultra/near-ultra settings on 1070. 1440p is kind of pushing it, but still playable. And 4k, well.. the 1070 is FAR from a 4k card. Even the 1080 struggles a little.

3. Going back to the nvidia control panel, you say you tweaked the power settings. Do you mean you tweaked the windows power settings? Or have you also tweaked the power settings under “Manage 3D settings” as well? My personal configuration is have the global power management mode set to “Adaptive”, and individually set each of my games to “Prefer maximum performance”

[MelonLikeAFelon]

Originally posted by Do YoU gUyS nOt HaVe PhOnEs?:

Haven’t played Onward (yet) nor do I have a 1070 (I have a 1080), but as general advice/fixes for when my 1080 was acting weird.

1. Under the Nvidia control panel, do you have your PhysX processor set to use your 1070? Rather than auto-select or cpu? I’ve noticed this improves some performance on certain games. Even ones that don’t use PhysX (to my knowledge)

2. I looked up your laptop, and it appears to have three display options: 1080p, 1440p, and 4k. Which display did you pick? 1080p should be easily playable at ultra/near-ultra settings on 1070. 1440p is kind of pushing it, but still playable. And 4k, well.. the 1070 is FAR from a 4k card. Even the 1080 struggles a little.

3. Going back to the nvidia control panel, you say you tweaked the power settings. Do you mean you tweaked the windows power settings? Or have you also tweaked the power settings under “Manage 3D settings” as well? My personal configuration is have the global power management mode set to “Adaptive”, and individually set each of my games to “Prefer maximum performance”

1. I'll take a look at that and test it on some games.

2. Wot? my monitor is only a 1440p. where did you you even find that info?

3. I have edited both windows and nevida power settings. the nevidia settings are about medium, any lower I'd end up with choppy or blury graphics, any higher, my pc will need to be overclocked for some games and others will make the computer struggle.