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Hey guys, I think I've found where most of my trouble is coming from. Gaming for some weird reason is running with internal graphics as opposed to my GPU (WTF...) I've attached a screenshot of the task-manager while playing Rainbow Six. 99% internal graphics while the GTX 1050 is chilling out at a casual 12%....... Is there any way I can force the laptop to use the GPU for all tasks? I have absolute no clue why the game would launch with the internal instead of the GPU. I'm definitely not gaming in 4K! All my games are run in 1080p, 4K doesn't play nicely with some game menus anyway and 1080 is more than sharp enough for me.

Thanks for your replies guys, I can say with some degree of confidence that it isn't Malware. I've bought all the apps I use, legitimately, and take extreme care when downloading any software. I have done about 3 clean installs on the laptop since I bought it (to fix the bluetooth connectivity issues I was facing when I first bought it. Did a Malwarebytes scan a couple of times and didn't return anything other than false-positives from Google Chrome files. I've attached a screenshot of the task manager, there is a bunch of bloatware like McAfee which seems to use a portion of memory, but it doesn't seem too significant. I do close down all non-essential background apps when gaming. I'm concerned if I delete any of the Dell stuff I will get constant notifications to reinstall or or have something crash on me Dell is finicky with their stupid apps. I checked my Nvidia settings and did have "extend battery life while gaming" set to "ON" but at the max quality instead of 'optimise' so I switched off the battery life extension feature entirely and see if this givs any improvement. Could it be that the apps themselves (Word and Lightroom mainly) are just poorly optimised? Seems odd that a brand new software such as Lightroom would function so badly but I'm at a loss to what it could be. It just seems like asking anything more than mildly demanding of the computer is too much effort for it One quick question about undervolting, would this not decrease performance? Thanks again guys, I'll play some Rainbow Six now and let you know if the Nvidia changes made any difference in that department at least.

Hey guys, I'm new to this forum but hoping someone will be able to help me out. I've had my XPS 15 (9560) for a few months now, the screen is absolutely gorgeous and the battery life among other things is great. HOWEVER, this system has been giving stuttering and lag issues since the day I bought it. Just a few examples are... lag typing into Google, loading webpages (not internet related lag) clicking, switching tabs, general UX (This was largely fixed by enabling hardware acceleration, but non-internet lag is still noticeable when switching to it from another window and when typing at times such as just having opened a new tab and trying to type) Playing a game on moderate to extremely low settings such as BeamNG, Rainbow Six | Siege, frames will drop significantly. BeamNG will game around 30-60FPS and then for no reason whatsoever, will drop to 10FPS for at least half an hour. Rainbow Six | Siege will fluctuate around 28~40FPS then drop to 5~15FPS if I get any sort of on-screen notification until it goes away, or randomly drop down to 15FPS for no reason. PUBG is 25FPS dropping to 15FPS at times even on the absolute lowest settings. Rainbow Six at the lowest settings should only require 1GB of GPU.... how on earth is this thing so damn slow when I have 4GB. Adobe Lightroom CC....my gosh.... every single action is laboured. Moving the mouse and waiting for changes to take effect, even just clicking the next photo will take an age for it to respond. Word Documents with anything longer than around 10 pages with even compressed images will lag while typing, moving the mouse and just generally feel like it's finding things exceptionally difficult to do. These are just a few examples, basically any operation short of just opening folders (e.g. using any program) can be exceptionally slow at times and laggy. I have tried all sorts of fixes for these programs individually and nothing seems to have helped very much. Even gaming at the lowest possible settings on both these games does nothing for performance improvements and I cannot describe how infuriating it is to be trying to complete a project in Word or Lightroom and have this ridiculous level of lag just because I inserted a compressed photo or clicked on the next photo in line I need to edit. The computer cost a significant amount of money and is pretty well spec'd out with all the latest updates of everything installed. i7-7700HQ Kaby Lake 16GB RAM NVidia GTX-1050 4GB GDDR5 I understand it may struggle to game these reasonably intensive games at high settings, but just day to day things??? Surely there is something not right with the settings. I've heard that Dell disables SpeedShift on the 9560 laptops, is this something that could be causing this stuttering and slow performance? Would enabling it with ThrottleStop be a safe option? It is absolutely infuriating, I had smoother performance on my old HP Pavilion DV5 than on this thing...editing in Lightroom is actually slower on this supposedly high performance laptop than it was on that 2008 model HP.... Any suggestions would be appreciated Thanks guys.