Is my Grpahics Card Working?

[Lennythellama]

I recently purchased a new gaming laptop for $2700.
Specs:
Intel i7-4700MQ @ 2.40GHz 2.40GHz
16GB Ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

I'm sure these are fairly decent specs, the only issue is I lag on close to every game. I have gone into NVIDIA Control Panel and made sure that the games are running with the dedicated GPU, but for some reason I still lag? It has been like this ever since I purchased it. Can anyone please help??

 

[Reyaz123]

What is your psu type? It might not be giving enough power to your GPU, just a thought.

 

[Lennythellama]

What is your psu type? It might not be giving enough power to your GPU, just a thought.

Input is 100-240 V and output is 19.5 V.

 

[Reyaz123]

What is your psu type? It might not be giving enough power to your GPU, just a thought.

Input is 100-240 V and output is 19.5 V.

Create your build on pcpartpicker.com to check if there are compatibility issues with your build. I'm not sure what it could be, sorry.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

It's a laptop...

 

[Lennythellama]

What is your psu type? It might not be giving enough power to your GPU, just a thought.

Input is 100-240 V and output is 19.5 V.

Create your build on pcpartpicker.com to check if there are compatibility issues with your build. I'm not sure what it could be, sorry.

I bought it from a store so I'm not sure what all the specs are. I don't think that anything would be incompatible.

 

[Lennythellama]

It's a laptop...

Yes?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Putting it into PCPartPicker is hardly going to help.

 

[Lennythellama]

Anyone else have any ideas?

 

[Reyaz123]

Is your RAM running in dual channel, or single channel mode?

 

[Lennythellama]

Is your RAM running in dual channel, or single channel mode?

Dual channel.

 

[Reyaz123]

Still thinking what is going wrong with your GPU.

I read your original post that you configured the game to run with your gpu.

Something else I suggest you try is right click the program you use to run the game
And select "run with graphics processor" then select your GPU

Hopefully this solves it. If not, will have to think of another idea and i'll post it here if I got any.

 

[Lennythellama]

Even though I have gone into NVIDIA Control Panel and made sure that games run with the dedicated GPU, it's almost as if it is using the Intel graphics card instead.

 

[Reyaz123]

You tried the "run with graphics processor option"? did it help improve the fps?

I suspect that the game you are playing needs to change its own graphics settings (in game)

Screenshot of my control panel:
http://snag.gy/rfSP0.jpg

It has the option to set the default graphics processor in the 3d settings

 

[Lennythellama]

You tried the "run with graphics processor option"? did it help improve the fps?

I suspect that the game you are playing needs to change its own graphics settings (in game)

Screenshot of my control panel:
http://snag.gy/rfSP0.jpg

It has the option to set the default graphics processor in the 3d settings

I did try selecting the processor and it seemed to work a lot better. Only issue is I can't do that with a lot of my games since I own them on steam and if I create a shortcut and try to run with the dedicated GPU. there isn't any option.
I have already set the default like you said to do.

The games I am trying to play are Rust, Ark and The Forest, but I seem to lag in all of them.

 

[Reyaz123]

There is another suggestion I have for you.

Go into your bios settings (power on pc, keep pressing the del key to enter the bios, or the button to press is different for your model pc)
Locate the "onboard graphics" option. Disable that and see if it helps.

 

[Lennythellama]

There is another suggestion I have for you.

Go into your bios settings (power on pc, keep pressing the del key to enter the bios, or the button to press is different for your model pc)
Locate the "onboard graphics" option. Disable that and see if it helps.

So I tried to disable it in the BIOS but I couldn't find it. Instead I disabled it in device manager. Then I tried to launch a game and I got less frames than I usually would.