Help LOW FPS with Skyrim on L702x

[drsmoketto]

Hi guys. I have a Dell L702X with the following specs:

i7 2720QM CPU
GT555M
1080P 3D screen
Blu Ray
8GB RAM
A12 bios

Latest nVidia 285.62 drivers installed. I have had the laptop for a few months and recently decided to try out Skyrim.

I had a go at the default settings which pretty much set all to high at 1080. Looked beautiful but I was getting lots of stuttering and fps was dropping into single figures.

So I tried lowering the resolution to 900p and AA off. Looked pretty bad but again I am getting stuttering and FPS drops to 12-13FPS in caves and 23 outdoors..... simply unacceptable for a £1000+ laptop.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong here?
If anyone has the same system, please point me in the direction of the right settings, or possible different Nvidia drivers?


Thanks in advance guys!

Luke

[daryld1988]

hi try these drivers these are newer beta drivers which brings alot of performance boosts to games like skyrim Graphics Driver - Verde 295.51 Driver - GeForce thats the link there try them and report back

[zjacobss]

Yes download the latest BETA driver and try again playing at 1080p, should be fine then.

[drsmoketto]

Cheers guys!

[drsmoketto]

Raised my FPS by about 3..... Totally stumped now

[daryld1988]

check you are running the game with your nvidia card and not your intel integrated graphics card

to make sure right click on your game icon and then go to run with graphics processor and select the nvidia 1

and see if that makes any difference, seeing from your specs you shouldnt have any trouble running that game

[drsmoketto]

Hey Daryl. I have the 3D version so Optimus is disabled by default.

[daryld1988]

im really stomped by how it cnt be running well as it is quite the powerful laptop you have more so than mine even mine is the i5 edition of urs and only has the gt525m and i can play skyrim no probs, can i ask have you got the latest updates for your skyrim i think the latest update was 1.4 thats the only other thing i could think thats causing it, and if not you could always go down the road of overclocking your card a little

[robcope]

I think the 290.53 drivers are better for Skyrim. Mine plays great, though i do play at 900p. Can't tell you my FPS as I don't care. Game just runs smooth.

[wyterabbit]

I haven't played it so I don't know what settings are actually available within the game, but it is normally shadows, AA and certain lighting that causes the biggetst problems in my experiance.
If you can start to decrease the shadow settings it should help (in wow with everything on ultra I was getting 30fps-ish but dropping a lot in areas with lots of lighting etc, turning shadows to medium instantly increased that by around 20fps without changing anything else).