1 FPS in most games after resetting computer

[Skolokiroptera]

Title. My laptop is older and was running agonizingly slow the last couple of months, so after trying everything else, I factory reset it and reinstalled windows 10. Good news is that it's running at nice quick speeds again, the bad news is that just about each game I've tried to load up into is stuck unplayable at 1-2 FPS. They were not like this prior to the reset mind you, while it took a long while to load into each application before, they still ran okay once in.

Of the games I've tried so far, from worst case scenario to best:

Stellaris: wouldn't even load into the main menu.

Deep Rock Galactic, Dredge and Glass Masquerade 3: all >1 FPS slideshows.

Little Nightmares: 1 FPS slideshow, but it started in windowed briefly before defaulting to full-screen and I noticed it was around 40. Set it back to windowed mode and the FPS jumped back up. (Tried this with Glass Masquerade and it had no effect.)

TF2: technically playable at anywhere from 10-30 in game, but constant and erratic changes in value.

Half-Life 2: is actually perfectly fine. No issues with frame rate at all.

I'm sure that there's some reason why some games are affected and others less so or aren't at all, but I'm not tech savvy enough to figure it out. I've attempted to optimize what I know so far, reinstalling NVIDIA and the updating the drivers, as well as changing my power plan to ultimate performance. I'm honestly at a loss here.

Obligatory Specs:
Windows 10 64-bit
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7300HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz
8GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050

[Cathulhu]

Did you install the latest driver for your 1050?
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/results/211710/
This is where you get the one for your videocard and OS.

[Iceira]

Its a Laptop, he point at wrong IGPU card ( or software rendering it ) and not the Nvidia main IGPU card, some games has own configuration and dont use windows system default.

[Skolokiroptera]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Did you install the latest driver for your 1050?
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/results/211710/
This is where you get the one for your videocard and OS.

I'm currently at work and cannot check, but I'm fairly sure that it's the same driver I installed/updated to. I can double check in a few hours.

[MoonC A T]

You're using the wrong GPU

[ZeedSaMa]

sounds like a gpu issue my doggo, gl!

[Skolokiroptera]

Update: so the driver linked to me was the one I'd already installed/updated to, so that's not the issue. And I had already gone into the NVIDIA control panel and selected the right GPU, both in global settings as well as for specific applications just to double down, but with no change. While having Deep Rock up, I pulled up task manager to look at the results, and it was maxing out the GPU on the Processes tab, but on the Performance tab, GPU (specifically NVIDIA) was at 0%.

So I think that despite making the change in the NVIDIA control panel to the right GPU, under the hood it's still using the integrated instead, hence the contradictory results in TM about GPU usage. Trying to google solutions now to check my suspicions, but if the control panel is essentially 'lying to me'... well then I'm even more confused than before. :/

[oʇɹɐɥz]

NICE MANO

[xarvn]

As a test, try disabling Intel graphics in the Device Manager.

[Skolokiroptera]

Originally posted by xarvn:

As a test, try disabling Intel graphics in the Device Manager.

That's listed under the Display Adapters sub isn't it? I saw that recommended in video and gave it a go already and it didn't accomplish much. Though it was labeled as 'Microsoft Basic Display Adapter' instead. Unless it's under a different part of the tree, but the NVIDIA GPU was under the same sub.

[xarvn]

Originally posted by Wyvax:

That's listed under the Display Adapters sub isn't it? I saw that recommended in video and gave it a go already and it didn't accomplish much. Though it was labeled as 'Microsoft Basic Display Adapter' instead. Unless it's under a different part of the tree, but the NVIDIA GPU was under the same sub.

Under "Display adapters" there should be two items:
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050
Intel HD Graphics 630
It seems you have the "Microsoft Basic Display" adapter. You need to install the driver for the Intel Graphics. Try updating driver through Windows update--right click on the "Microsoft Basic Display adapter" in the "Device Manager" and select "Update driver."

[Skolokiroptera]

Originally posted by xarvn:

Originally posted by Wyvax:

That's listed under the Display Adapters sub isn't it? I saw that recommended in video and gave it a go already and it didn't accomplish much. Though it was labeled as 'Microsoft Basic Display Adapter' instead. Unless it's under a different part of the tree, but the NVIDIA GPU was under the same sub.

Under "Display adapters" there should be two items:
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050
Intel HD Graphics 630
It seems you have the "Microsoft Basic Display" adapter. You need to install the driver for the Intel Graphics. Try updating driver through Windows update--right click on the "Microsoft Basic Display adapter" in the "Device Manager" and select "Update driver."

Well I did it and restarted my computer. Before disabling it in device manager I gave one of the games a quick test run, and it was running great. Tried four so far and all of them are doing swell. I'll give a quick test with Intel disabled now to see if they improve further still (EDIT: it tanked it LOL, best to leave both on!) Baffling that the integrated GPU being out of commission effected the NVIDIA GPU that badly, but it is what it is. Thanks for the help, God bless.

[xarvn]

The way the hardware is setup, I suspect, requires all video to go through the integrated video card. The absence of a driver caused the Intel GPU to revert to software mode which bottle-necked everything. If your BIOS has settings for different muxing (that is multiplexing) schemes then you might be able to experiment with these to get some slight improvement. Otherwise, this is probably the best performance you will get for now. Actually Microsoft has supposedly worked out a software solution recently with what they call "CASO" tech which they claim improves setups that have integrated and discrete mobile graphics. Hopefully this will be implemented soon in the form of a Windows update. Good luck!