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GTX 560M not enough ?

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Douda Boum
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-06-14 14:55:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Douda Boum
Hello Guys,

I was just wondering why I've so much trouble with EvE played from my laptop :
- 15 inch
- played in Windows mode (1920*1080 more or less)
- Geforce GTX 560M 1.5Go GDDR5
- 16Gb 1333Mhz (pack 4x4Go)
- i7-2670QM

I put EVERYTHING in low settings just to see how it works and I'm kinda disappointed, I can have huge FPS drops due to shaders (from 60 constant due to vsync to 30ish cause of shaders)

Did I miss something or is my laptop not strong enough for EvE ?

By the way, I'm doing for the moment security mission lvl 2, no fleet, just solo PVE

any advises ?
Kijo Rikki
Killboard Padding Services
#2 - 2013-06-14 15:24:11 UTC
I just looked up the specs on that card, that should be more than enough to run EvE in hi-res.

You make a valid point, good Sir or Madam. 
Totalrx
NA No Assholes
#3 - 2013-06-14 15:38:10 UTC
What RPM is your HDD spinning at?
Also, what buffer size does the HDD have?

The HDD in laptops is usually the performance killer. Normally, they have low RPM's and small buffer sizes.
Douda Boum
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-06-14 15:59:00 UTC
Thanks for the replies guys.

I'm pretty sure it's not a HDD issue (7200rpm 64Mb cache).
The FPS drop occurs only when I "look at" some shader effects such as suns/"fog" etc... I when look somewhere else where these is literally nothing (no ships, no shiny background) my FPS switch back to 60fps...

It's pretty weird and wanted to point this issue out to get rid of this because it's really frustrating not even being able to target correctly ships due to these constant drops
CCP Nadir
C C P
C C P Alliance
#5 - 2013-06-14 16:12:52 UTC
Have you updated to the latest Nvidia drivers and the latest DirectX version?

I have a 660m in my laptop and have gotten some strange issues with several games. Dota 2 crashing 1/3 of games due to some vertex buffer lock error, Arma 3 locking up my whole computer.

Haven't had any issues with Eve though.
Tollen Gallen
Glory of Reprisal Enterprise
#6 - 2013-06-14 20:47:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Tollen Gallen
I run on a 5 yr old Acer aspire 8920g

Intel 2 duo T8300 2.4 GHz 800MHz FSB 3MB L2 cache
Nvidia GeForce 9500M 512MB
4GB ddr2

I Have most things on low and seems to handle ok, having said that any gas clouds do tend to slow it down a lot, Suns shiny things, and ships dont seem to matter tho.

Latest drivers.

have you checked whats running in the background?
Could it be an overheating issue?

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Tsukino Stareine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-06-15 04:00:12 UTC
If you're playing on a laptop ALWAYS CHECK if your power management is on HIGH or MAX performance

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Alice Saki
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#8 - 2013-06-15 09:23:30 UTC
Your Card is better than my Desktop one, And I run 4 clients on Max Settings.

Got to be something else causing the problem.

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Ravnik
Infinate Horizon
#9 - 2013-06-15 09:51:50 UTC
Alice Saki wrote:
Your Card is better than my Desktop one, And I run 4 clients on Max Settings.

Got to be something else causing the problem.


Thats just because CCP would hate to upset you by causing problems with YOUR clients Alice Roll

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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#10 - 2013-06-15 11:23:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Akita T
I have no good explanation for such abysmal performance from your existing standalone video card (even if you had the worst possible drivers and most of your RAM was filled with something else it should still work MUCH better than that, well above 60 FPS even in maxed-out detail), so there's a pretty good possibility that you're accidentally running the game on the integrated video chip instead of the standalone video card (the CPU-integrated intel HD should yield just about the performance you describe, give or take).
P.S. Not 100% sure where you check that, probably somewhere in the switchable graphics option screens.

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Douda Boum
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2013-06-15 16:06:30 UTC
Thank you all for your answer.

Regarding the possible work-around :
- so far, used the "optimize for performances" and didn't have any troubles
- checked that I'm using my dedicated videocard (the integrated one isn't active at all anyway and no optimus or stuff like this)
- updated DirectX (via this link : http://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=35)
- updated Videocard drivers (nVidia 320.18)
- Always using laptop with MAX performances and removed battery

Seems to be working so far, couldn't reproduce the problem

I monitor this week and check if I've any FPS drops again.

But I'm still wondering what could cause this issue, I'm scpetical