Trying to Learn so Please dont kill me. FAR CRY 3 ISSUE!

[Quest_Skyrim]

Seriously you have all been really great with all the help and advice. I got on last night to play and oddly enough it didn't lag at all. That was without changing anything or updating anything. It worked perfectly. I was on it for about 2-3 hours with no issue, I did notice the laptop getting warm, but I elevated it a bit to get more air underneath. Might need to look into a better way to cool while playing but last night the game worked great. After work today if I still have further issues I will try to make the changes that Fanatic suggested. Thanks again for all the help, your welcome for the thanks of me being in the service and any input on better ways to cool my laptop would be appreciated...

You are welcome! 🙂

There are plates that can buy to place your laptop on with built in fans or you could simply use a normal fan to cool down both your self and your laptop during play. There are fans which make us of USB port to run, so you could still be portable (but it would drain your battery).

Another solution might be to use some sort of FPS limiter to avoid GPU to work then needed. FPS limiting will also reduce typical problems you might have from use of vsynch.

Video on a tool for FPS limiting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH9D__g1yqs

 

[paisa23]

Thanks Quest. Yeah I am deployed for the next 6 months so I wanted to take that time to convert to PC gaming since I cant always have my console. Is there like a 101 class on line to take to learn what my computer has? Or what limits I have on my Graphix card and all that good stuff. I mean I posted it in my signature but I really don't understand in laymans terms what it all means.Or if I can upgrade or how one does that. I work with a guy who wants to open up my laptop and see what I have but I an terrified of that cause my wife will kick my ass if this laptop doesn't last me for at least two years. Ive seen some of those USB fans but they always looked cheap or I don't know, just looked like a waist of money. Like the laptop lap pillow or whatever, now that thing just smothers the fan underneath right? Any top 5 to look out for? Im on a government computer with no access to Youtube but I will check when I get home.

 

[Frag Maniac]

^ The main upgrade I would look at doing is adding more RAM, which is typically the primary and easiest upgrade you can do on any laptop. PCs still don't have unified memory like consoles do, which means you can get stutter in some of these new games with HUGE texture files if you don't have the memory capacity. The texture files are cached by the RAM as they're waiting to be loaded into VRAM. In 2016 PCs will have unified memory, maybe sooner if AMD's new GPUs have it.

I've seen testimonials of guys taking 8GB of their 16GB RAM out and they start getting stuttering that wasn't there before. More RAM can also help resist problems with games that have memory leaks, which are scripts that keep running when they're not supposed to. Sometimes these bugs get fixed, sometimes they don't.

Your 860m GPU can also be overclocked, but that is a bit dicey with laptops since there's not as good internal cooling options for the GPU due to space restrictions. It also requires proper procedure or damage could result.

CPUs in laptops cannot be upgraded. GPUs in ones that have separate GPU cards often CAN be upgraded, but is a bit pricey and often not worth it. Yours however has the GPU chip soldered onto the MB, so it can't be upgraded.

http://www.myfixguide.com/manual/lenovo-y50-disassembly/