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Fixed it using system restore. Mods can close the thread. May I add that his forum is utterly useless. I've asked 3-4 questions and always ended up fixing it myself. :fou:

I have a lenovo Y570 with the intel hd 3000/geforce gt 555m. I recently downloaded Call of Duty 4 and CoD World at War from steam along with Nvidia 310.90. These drivers are unstable for the 2 games, If I try and change resolution on multiplayer the game crashes. I tried to install 290.xx...

Don't know what to tell ya. From what I understand GTA IV is a poorly optimized console port. It doesn't recogize the Nvidia card so it isn't compatible with optimus. I have an Intel HD 3000 on my laptop and I can get it run on med-high at 30fps with the tweaks I have told you about. I have gone...

Try this. Go to your steam library, right click GTA IV and select properties. Select launch options. Enter the following. -width xxxx -height xxxx -refreshrate 60 -availablevidmem 8000 -percentvidmem 100 -nomemrestrict -norestrictions xxxx = Your laptops resolution, either 1366x768 or 1920x1080

It didn't overclock the CPU, I have the GPU overclocked with EVGA Precision but the Throttlestop program just gets the CPU to run at a solid pace. I went from 10-15fps to 30-40fps even though GTA IV still shows the reads the intel card during the benchmark. Crysis is running much better aswell...

I found a fix! The CPU was throttling horribly so I downloaded a program called throttlestop and set it to the "game" preset. Now I'm playing GTA IV at 25-40fps and for the first time Crysis runs on my laptop without dropped below 20fps!!! So exicted, I've been trying to play Crysis for ages now.

Well damn. Looks like I have to reinstall windows 7 with a version that is intended for desktop computers... http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/368288-33-disable-nvidia-optimus-nvidia-card

Yes, The laptop always stays plugged in. I just went into nvidia control panel and for some reason on the screen where you select the gpu to be used, it won't let me select the high performance nvidia processor, it always stays on auto.

Hey all. I have a Lenovo y570 with a Nvidia Geforce GT555m. I just recently bought GTA IV on sale from Steam, and I'm having the same issues with it that I was having with Crysis. I originally thought my system wasn't beefy enough to run Crysis but after having the same issue with GTA IV, I've...

Ok, Put together a build for under $1300. Everything looks compatible. Optical Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204 Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147161 HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236338...

Thanks, save me $100. I was a pretty avid console gamer so I guess big screens have become a habit.

Alright, Looks like I'm only getting 1,100 back for a refund. Can someone revise my list in order to maximize performance for that price? My main goal is to run BF3, MoH Warfighter and Crysis 1 on ultra at aleast 30 fps.

Ok got my parts sorted out. I got rid of the powercolor and added the sapphire 7970 3gb, got rid of the sound card also. Added an ASUS VE278Q 27 inch gaming monitor. I was considering a 120hz monitor but I did some research and found out that since most the games I'll be playing won't run at...

Hey all, I bought a Lenovo y570 a couple months ago and while I'm more than happy with it, I'm ready to upgrade to a more capable desktop system. I have most of the parts picked out, but I have never built a gaming rig before and I want to know if the CPU and GPU aswell as other parts are...

Found what Im looking for. Sager I5 core 2.5-3.1 ghz. Intel HM77 chipset Geforce GTX 670M 8GB DDR3 1333MHZ $1136.38