Lenovo y40-70 running games poorly

[Cameron Bianchi]

I have a lenovo y40-70 gaming laptop.It uses an AMD Radeon 275X 2gb and an i7 processor. When i first got it a year ago, it could run many triple A titles such as shadows of mordor at ultra settings at 30 fps. But now, it can barley run most games i have. It runs Ryse son of Rome at low settings at 15 fps and doom at low settings at 20 fps, and just cause 3 at low settings at 20 fps. I put all my games at high performance in the catalyst center and it still runs poorly. If anyone could let me know why this is happening and how i could fix it, that would be great.

 

[j3ster]

ummm what kind of monitor hahaha

 

[Cameron Bianchi]

its an acer

 

[Cameron Bianchi]

i couldn't find anything online about its base frequency

 

[j3ster]

what is the resolution? and what is the native resolution of your laptop?

ill assume that before you didnt have the monitor and you played with good FPS. this only happened after plugging in the monitor.

also you might want to check for driver update.

 

[Cameron Bianchi]

they are both 1080p. i got the monitor 6 months after buying the laptop. my drivers are fully up to date.

 

[Cameron Bianchi]

I tried running the same game on just the laptop and it only improved the quality by 5 frames, making it run at 15 fps

 

[j3ster]

hmmm now im really confused on what the issue is. try and play games and open task manager. try to see if there are programs eating up your RAM. and close them. also while you are at it try looking up your Disk usage if it goes to 90%-100% if so that may be another cause of your lag spikes.

 

[Cameron Bianchi]

my dsik usage is at 10% while gaming

 

[ema21del9]

Also check your hdd is not full.

 

[Cameron Bianchi]

its not

 

[j3ster]

this is getting tricky now. how bout the RAM usage i stated? is it good? maybe background apps eating some CPU cores and RAM.

i really cant think of any other problem now. some unlikely problems would be your graphics card is giving up. hahaha or your CPU is not performing well as it should. or a virus or some malware

 

[ema21del9]

this is getting tricky now. how bout the RAM usage i stated? is it good? maybe background apps eating some CPU cores and RAM.

i really cant think of any other problem now. some unlikely problems would be your graphics card is giving up. hahaha or your CPU is not performing well as it should. or a virus or some malware

Agree. I'm also out of ideas now.

 

[Cameron Bianchi]

Well, thanks for the help

 

[ema21del9]

If you're using Windows task manager to monitor the values then don't trust that information because it has pretty slow refresh rate so values may not be accurate. There IS something in your system that is holding it back.

Can you again and check the following using MSI Afterburner: play using windowed mode so you can see Afterburner stats "in real time" and check for CPU and GPU % of utilization, I'm pretty it has to be close to 100% in one of them and that's your bottleneck.

 

[j3ster]

yea i forgot about MSI afterburner it should help see where the issues are at. if they exist in the CPU and GPU.

 

[Cameron Bianchi]

2 things: when i went to play it just now with msi afterburner, the game play looked much better for some reason. the fps was higher. Also the gpu usage was at 90%

 

[j3ster]

so where are your FPS sitting at?

 

[Cameron Bianchi]

now they are at 20 instead of 7

 

[ema21del9]

Ok 90% looks better, if it goes to 100% that's the full potential of the laptop. Have you switched something in Afterburner?

 

[Cameron Bianchi]

I dont know why they got better. My cpu usage was at around 70%

 

[Cameron Bianchi]

I pressed reset in afterburner. i think thats what changed it but im not sure

 

[ema21del9]

As long as it doesn't go down again we can say it's a "win" right?

 

[j3ster]

you might have probably fiddled with the clock speed of your GPU at some point. and with your rest it has fixed the Clock issues. thats why it went choppy.

 

[ema21del9]

you might have probably fiddled with the clock speed of your GPU at some point. and with your rest it has fixed the Clock issues. thats why it went choppy.

Yeah most likely the clock frequency was "capped" or something and the "reset" function in MSI Afterburner seem to have solved that.

 

[Cameron Bianchi]

is there any way for it to be any better? not to complain, but 20 fps on low is all that good.