Lag on Good Computer

[Spxnzon]

Hello

I recently bought a MSI Apache Pro GE70 with a Nvidia GeForce GTX970M (full specs https://www.msi.com/Laptop/ge70-2qe-apache-pro.html#hero-overview), which is supposed to be a nice gaming laptop. However, it has been very laggy, even in games like Minecraft that are not intense. I get about 4 fps in Minecraft, and Forza Motorsport is unplayable even though the game tells me my specs are high enough to play the game on high settings. My old desktop with a Nvidia GT680 can run Minecraft at a smooth 70 fps, so I expect my gaming laptop to do better. I have already tried the following:

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  ■ Restarting laptop
  ■ Restarting game
  ■ Updating drivers through Geforce experience and control panel
  ■ Disabling the on-board graphics card
  ■ Changing power settings to max performance in both nvidia, onboard, and control panel
  ■ Changing Nvidia settings to use only Nvidia GPU
  ■ Reinstalling drivers
  ■ Changing the BIOS gpu setting from dynamic to fixed
  ■ Allocating more memory to games
  ■ Adding games to the Nvidia Control panel to use certain settings
  ■ Changing game settings to the lowest
  ■ Violence on laptop
  ■ Using various game software like Razor Cortex
  ■ Setting the game to high priority in Task Manager
  ■ Made my Windows 10 computer look like windows 98
  ■ Deleting temp and prefetch files
  ■ Cleaning software
  ■ Disk cleanup
  
  But none of them seem to work. Is there anything else I can do? Any help would be appreciated
  
  Thanks for reading and have a good day!
  

 

[MnMWizard]

Do a refresh of Windows or completely reset it, whichever you feel more comfortable doing.

 

[Dawid_R25]

Do you have java 64bit installed?, if not that's it. I used to play with 32bit and had like 20 fps then got 64bit, and got instan 100-300

 

[SquirrelPhantom]

You are most likely using the built in graphics and not your 970m when running these games. Make sure to run these games with 970m if you haven't already.

 

[anbello262]

Have you tried any kind of benchmark?
This would be useful to isolate some factors.

Run furmark, and come back with the results. Does it run? How many fps? What are the reported temperatures?

 

[Spxnzon]

Have you tried any kind of benchmark?
This would be useful to isolate some factors.

Run furmark, and come back with the results. Does it run? How many fps? What are the reported temperatures?

I've tried using Heaven Benchmark from Unigine at maximum settings, and the average fps was about 40. The temperature stayed below 70 and I believe the score was 1000

 

[Spxnzon]

I fixed the problem- turns out my computer is only fully active when the battery level is high. I charged it for a bit and my game fps went back to normal.