Generally I find my laptops performance quite good, this is except when I have to do anything even slightly demanding such as playing games. Even much older games have to be turned down to minimal settings to become playable. A while back I did a clean install of Windows 7 64bit from Vista 32bit, I didn't play any games on it my laptop before this though so I can't be sure if this is the problem or not. I thought the problem might have been drivers, but they are up to date and the problem still persists. I'm fairly sure that my laptop should be able to play these games at a frame rate greater than about 4. Any help would be great thanks, my specs are below. Laptop: Dell XPS M1330 GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 2.0 GHz Memory: 4094MB OS: Windows 7 64bit Also I did a kombustor test, it scored 97 points with 2fps and 60000ms...
Hm... what applications do you have running in the background? And have you tried restoring system defaults via nVidia Control Panel?
Yes I have tried restoring system defaults and I run the game without any other applications running. After looking at the processes with the game running it only uses about 2% of the CPU or less, this seems surprisingly low? Could this be the issue?
What games are you trying to play? Core 2 Duo's are a bit old but even if you turn play at average quality, you shouldn't experience low FPS issues... your laptop might be overheating then. I don't think its a software issue.
I've just realised my graphics card is worse than I thought, I swear it was 256MB unless I installed the drivers for the wrong card. Ah well that's probably the problem which is a shame because it's integrated, thanks for your time.
No problem. What i would do is try 2001-2002 games and then move up to 2005-2006 games. Compare the FPS results. Try games like Max Payne (2001) and then games like F.E.A.R. (late 2005). If you can run the older games smoothly then your card is simply getting old
