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Advise on my Asus laptop -opinions on the specs

DuilyonDuilyon Member Posts: 326
in Hardware

I am relatively unfamilier with laptop specs but I have been in university for awhile and have been dying to play an MMO again. I decided to go home and pick up my ASUS G7VW that I have not played in about a year. My little brother has been using it and I seem to recall it running a lot better than it is currently. 

 

Maybe my memory is distorted but I used to play The Secret World relatively well on it. 

 

http://www.amazon.com/G75VW-BBK5-2-30GHz-3-30GHz-i7-3610QM-1600MHz-5400RPM/dp/B0085P2DQ6/ref=sr_1_12?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1384722788&sr=1-12&keywords=ASUS+G75VW

 

That is the laptop and was curious on opinions of it. I just downloaded Rift, Star Trek Online and both do not seem to run well at all and this concerns me. 

 

Any advise as to why it wouldn't be running well or is my memory just shit and the laptop just aged horribly. 

 

I updated all the drivers so that should not be an issue. Thank you for all assistance!

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  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719

    I've never played STO but I do play Rift on both my desktop and laptop.

    It's not a scientific measure but I have the fans on my desktop GPU (7970) set to increase fan speed depending on GPU heat using MSI Afterburner and of everything I play, Rift causes the fan to run faster  (GW2, Path of Exile, Diablo 3, WOW, Xcom, Bioshock Infinite, etc.)

    Updating your drivers won't hurt of course but you may just need to turn down some of the eye candy on Rift anyway.

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  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,531

    You might just be expecting too much out of it.  Don't expect miracles from a laptop version of a $100 desktop video card that was the lowest end GPU chip of its generation from either vendor.

    It's also possible that it's overheating and performance is throttling back because of that.  Overheating is always a concern in laptops as dust accumulates, so you can check your clock speeds and temperatures.

    And there's also the option that the discrete video card simply isn't kicking in, and it's trying to run games on the integrated graphics instead.  That will kill your performance in a hurry.

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