Geforce Optimized Settings

[clay_park]

I have a kind of odd question, I have a few year old prebuilt "desktop replacement". I have noticed recently that I am struggling to play some higher end titles. I realize that this may happen, but I assumed I would be able to run them at least on low, so I launched geforce experience and had it optimize my games and set all of my settings to high when the game can barely function on low making me wonder if geforce experience is way overestimating or something has gone awry. Any ideas?

System specs:

Geforce 660m

3630qm

8gb ram

1tb hard drive

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[PlayStation 2]

The GTX 660M isn't exactly outdated? Did you reinstall drivers? Maybe a shitty or bloated Windows installation?

[clay_park]

1 minute ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

The GTX 660M isn't exactly outdated? Did you reinstall drivers? Maybe a shitty or bloated Windows installation?

Its a fresh copy of windows 10 with the latest geforce drivers, had to do a completely reinstall of the os after the updated bricked my sound system. Only has maybe three games on it and the latest windows updates, maybe I need some intel drivers or something not sure.

[PlayStation 2]

4 minutes ago, clay_park said:

Its a fresh copy of windows 10 with the latest geforce drivers, had to do a completely reinstall of the os after the updated bricked my sound system. Only has maybe three games on it and the latest windows updates, maybe I need some intel drivers or something not sure.

It's Windows 10 probably being Windows 10.

[clay_park]

2 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

It's Windows 10 probably being Windows 10.

So how might I fix that?

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, clay_park said:

So how might I fix that?

I honestly don't think you could.

[clay_park]

Just now, Dan Castellaneta said:

I honestly don't think you could.

Refresh of Windows 10, or should I downgrade back to 7?

 

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, clay_park said:

Refresh of Windows 10, or should I downgrade back to 7?

 

Go back to 7 if you can.

[Curufinwe_wins]

20 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

The GTX 660M isn't exactly outdated? Did you reinstall drivers? Maybe a shitty or bloated Windows installation?

It's pretty awful actually. My old laptop had it and it struggles to do 30 FPS on DA:I min settings.

 

6 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Go back to 7 if you can.

10 is notably better at gaming than 7 is (although basically identical to 8 and 8.1)

[PlayStation 2]

Just now, Curufinwe_wins said:

It's pretty awful actually. My old laptop had it and it struggles to do 30 FPS on DA:I min settings.

 

10 is notably better at gaming than 7 is (although basically identical to 8 and 8.1)

reep

[Curufinwe_wins]

9 minutes ago, clay_park said:

Refresh of Windows 10, or should I downgrade back to 7?

 

I have a laptop with the exact same specs you have, and geforce experience came out after the 660m by quite a bit and it overestimates it's power.

 

I could barely get 30 fps on a 2014 high end title 1080p min settings.

 

It's just a slow gpu honestly.

[clay_park]

2 minutes ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

I have a laptop with the exact same specs you have, and geforce experience came out after the 660m by quite a bit and it overestimates it's power.

 

I could barely get 30 fps on a 2014 high end title 1080p min settings.

 

It's just a slow gpu honestly.

Thanks for the help:) guess I will just have to live with it.

[Curufinwe_wins]

2 minutes ago, clay_park said:

Thanks for the help:) guess I will just have to live with it.

Yea I tried overclocking it, and that did help about 10-25% fps boost, BUT my laptop was already super hot.

 

It was literally the reason Kurald Galain was made over the summer.

[Virtual01]

660M basically died at the turn of the console generation. And call me a conspiracy theorist, but I'm fairly sure geforce experience is tuned to give you non-optimal settings so that you think your GPU sucks and buy a new one. I've never had it give me decent settings on any game. Even if you can run the game fine, it will start forcing extra shit that will slow it down. I always just fine tune the settings myself until I'm satisfied. It's kind of unfortunate in your case because your laptop is still pretty decent except for the GPU.

 

[Curufinwe_wins]

5 hours ago, Virtual01 said:

660M basically died at the turn of the console generation. And call me a conspiracy theorist, but I'm fairly sure geforce experience is tuned to give you non-optimal settings so that you think your GPU sucks and buy a new one. I've never had it give me decent settings on any game. Even if you can run the game fine, it will start forcing extra shit that will slow it down. I always just fine tune the settings myself until I'm satisfied. It's kind of unfortunate in your case because your laptop is still pretty decent except for the GPU.

 

It's fine for higher end gpus, and it really isn't an awful place to start (ESP with indie titles/mmos). Obviously I would never recommend keeping those settings (just starting from them). I'll cut Nvidia a bit of slack for the 600-series mobile line as they were really underpowered and GFE came out notably after they were obsolete (late 2013-early 2014? compared to launch for the 660m in 2012).

[don_svetlio]

I'm with @Curufinwe_wins on this one. The 660M is roughly half the performance of the 860M and you can't expect anything above minimum settings with it nowadays