Acer V5-573g experiences gaming problems and may not perform well under boost settings.
Acer V5-573g experiences gaming problems and may not perform well under boost settings.
Hello, thanks for your help. I own an Acer V5-573G with Windows 8.1, 8GB RAM, GTX 850m, and an 8GB SSD paired with a 1TB hybrid drive. I also have a desktop but can’t carry one around easily, so this is my laptop. I’m experiencing performance problems while gaming. The system runs BF3 at ultra settings (1366x768) without an external monitor. It’s usually smooth, but sometimes it drops to around 45 FPS, which feels playable. League of Legends tends to lag or stutter during intense team fights, though that’s more about network speed than the laptop itself. I’ve tested Afterburner and confirmed the GPU is running at full power. The CPU turbo is active (3-3.5 GHz). Temperatures stay within normal range, and no issues were found in benchmarks or stress tests. Other titles like Wasteland 2 or Payday 2 also behave poorly—same FPS regardless of resolution or settings. I realize I need to ensure the GPU is using the dedicated one instead of the built-in one, possibly adjusting BIOS or OS settings. This might be unusual since I haven’t used a laptop for gaming in over a decade. Are these issues typical for laptops? Are there specific BIOS or OS tweaks I should consider? Thanks for any advice or details you can share. P.S. I’m not sure if this is the right forum, but it felt most relevant here.
Occasionally a very sluggish hard drive might be the cause, though I question if that's the main issue.
I regularly perform defrag operations and although laptop HDDs aren't the quickest, they offer a decent speed around 65 MB/s for copying or pasting a 1GB file. What would be an effective clean driver reinstall in this situation? I understand you can get NVIDIA updates to install fresh, but regarding CPU updates... GeForce experience doesn’t run properly and AA is disabled in the GeForce control panel.
There are no CPU drivers; I meant the video ones. A clean install means installing a new driver after making sure you’ve fully removed all previous ones. Nvidia offers a tool for this, but you can also delete it via the device settings or programs menu. After that, go ahead and install the driver—try skipping the GeForce Experience part of the setup (use custom/advanced install) so it doesn’t interfere.