Low FPS on a 140W TDP 3070 laptop

[Unknown_Airlines]

I just bought a new i7 11800 / RTX 3070 (140W) laptop yesterday but notice that I cannot max out the graphics while still maintaining smooth FPS. Does anyone else with similar laptop experience FPS drops with settings maxed?
I don't know what software can capture FPS to tell you the exact number, but it just obviously isn't smooth. Turning graphics to low solves the issue but how could a RTX 3070, even if laptop version, not able to run a 2 years old ported game on full?

My desktop with 1080ti doesn't have trouble running everything maxed out in the entire game.

[WhitePhantom]

Go to Steam settings, in-game settings and you can turn on the in-game FPS counter.

For performance check to make sure your laptop is actually using your GPU for the game instead of integrated graphics.

1. Open the "Nvidia Control Panel".
2. Select "Manage 3D Settings" under 3D Settings.
3. Click on the "Program Settings" tab and select the program you want to choose a graphics card for from the drop down list.
4. Now select "preferred graphics processor" in the drop down list. (You can see what the automatic option is listed as global setting) If you want to use the dedicated graphics card, select High-performance Nvidia processor.

[Unknown_Airlines]

Originally posted by WhitePhantom:

Go to Steam settings, in-game settings and you can turn on the in-game FPS counter.

For performance check to make sure your laptop is actually using your GPU for the game instead of integrated graphics.

1. Open the "Nvidia Control Panel".
2. Select "Manage 3D Settings" under 3D Settings.
3. Click on the "Program Settings" tab and select the program you want to choose a graphics card for from the drop down list.
4. Now select "preferred graphics processor" in the drop down list. (You can see what the automatic option is listed as global setting) If you want to use the dedicated graphics card, select High-performance Nvidia processor.

Thanks! Although there is something else I would like to share.
At first I did exactly what you said but it didn't work and I was about to post so. Ultimately I decided to reboot first and test again - and it finally worked!
So people - if you have similar problems like me try adjust the Nvidia control panel setting AND reboot once. The Nvidia control panel did not prompt me about this and I almost thought it doesn't work.


But why is this necessary at all? I thought Windows is designed to be able to auto-select?

[A Suspicious Crayon]

The wattage doesn't mean anything, is it a 3070 Max Q or Max P, how much ram is there and how fast is that ram, is the 11800H actually boosting.

To see more detailed stuff of your PC you can use tools like AIDA64 for a detailed list of components, HWINFO to see temps and all or CapFrameX+Riva tuner statistics Server to get an ingame overlay that shows you all sorts of information ingame.

Something else you can try is running ProcessLasso, you activate ProBalance, Smartrim Performance mode and change the plan to Bitsum highest performance and see if that gets you some results.

[Unknown_Airlines]

Originally posted by A Suspicious Crayon:

The wattage doesn't mean anything, is it a 3070 Max Q or Max P, how much ram is there and how fast is that ram, is the 11800H actually boosting.

Nvidia no longer allows mobile Ampere chips to carry the Max-Q/P designations. TDP is the only way to tell how good the GPU is as not all are created equal and is now buyer beware. A low TDP 3080 could be beaten by a high TDP 3070. There are many benchmarks available and I chose my laptop carefully thanks to their effort.

[A Suspicious Crayon]

Mhhh thats Odd, because i can still find Max Q And Max P everywhere even in 30 series laptop gpus, but anyways, there has to be something else wrong because my almost ancient hardware can run the game just fine on 75+ fps. 4790K 5700 with 16 gig ram is vastly slower than your laptop.

[Unknown_Airlines]

Ultimately my laptop run fine too! ; ) It's only the weird bug of it not knowing to use the dGPU and instead of going to iGPU so we had to force it through Windows settings. No other games I have played doesn't know when to switch and it just shows how little Konami cares about non-smartphone gamers.