1070 ain't workin

[Garrison Marsh]

My friend got a GTX 1070 recently and has been using the razor core to play some games on his laptop. He has noticed that in the Witcher 3 and Battlefield 1 the framerate is really bad (like in the 20s on low settings). He is able to run just fine on ultra in the battlefield 1 campaign though. What's going on?

[Droidbot]

Which laptop? He's probably being bottlenecked by a Y or U series processor, and BF1 Multiplayer and WT3 are CPU-intensive. 

[Garrison Marsh]

 

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

Which laptop? He's probably being bottlenecked by a Y or U series processor, and BF1 Multiplayer and WT3 are CPU-intensive. 

He has the razer blade stealth with an i7 so i doubt its being bottlenecked. I have an i3 and can run these games just fine.

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, Garrison Marsh said:

 

He has the razer blade stealth with an i7 so i doubt its being bottlenecked. I have an i3 and can run these games just fine.

Razer Blade Stealth.. There's his issue. It's shite. 

Even your i3 is faster than his laptop i7 - it's in a 15w power profile and requires good cooling to make it go quick, which is something the Blade Stealth lacks. 

[Garrison Marsh]

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

Razer Blade Stealth.. There's his issue. It's shite. 

Even your i3 is faster than his laptop i7 - it's in a 15w power profile and requires good cooling to make it go quick, which is something the Blade Stealth lacks. 

 

 

So, is there a solution? Other than getting a new laptop?

[manikyath]

may be a pcie bottleneck because of thunderbolt (does the linus-man have a video on this? i'm not sure how much of a problem the limited bandwidth is)

 

beyond that, are you sure he is *actually* using the gpu for his games, or missed a setting somewhere?

[Dormant God]

Most likely a Bottleneck from a Laptop CPU I would recommend runing CPU ID or something like that to find out which processor, Pretty sure the saying goes "Don't be fooled by Laptop CPU's. or something like that

[Dormant God]

Manikyath No it's his CPU

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Razer Blade Stealth.. There's his issue. It's shite. 

Even your i3 is faster than his laptop i7 - it's in a 15w power profile and requires good cooling to make it go quick, which is something the Blade Stealth lacks. 

compared to a desktop i3, it's not *that* bad.

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6500U-vs-Intel-Core-i3-4130/m36930vs1621

[Garrison Marsh]

2 minutes ago, Dormant God said:

Most likely a Bottleneck from a Laptop CPU I would recommend runing CPU ID or something like that to find out which processor, Pretty sure the saying goes "Don't be fooled by Laptop CPU's. or something like that

 

I would think that this is the problem except that he can run Just Cause 3 and BF1 singleplayer so idk

[Garrison Marsh]

Is it because it is multiplayer?

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Dormant God said:

Manikyath No it's his CPU

or this:

5 minutes ago, Garrison Marsh said:

I have an i3 and can run these games just fine.

 

[Dormant God]

1 minute ago, Garrison Marsh said:

I would think that this is the problem except that he can run Just Cause 3 and BF1 singleplayer so idk

 

7 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Which laptop? He's probably being bottlenecked by a Y or U series processor, and BF1 Multiplayer and WT3 are CPU-intensive. 

Droidbot said Witcher 3 and BF1 Multiplayer are CPU intensive so it's more likely than not a CPU Bottleneck

[Droidbot]

3 minutes ago, Garrison Marsh said:

So, is there a solution? Other than getting a new laptop?

Run Intel XTU and run a stress test for around 10 minutes and see how much it is thermal throttling in the bottom part. 

If it's throttling super bad, contact Razer and organise a replacement unit

[Garrison Marsh]

So basically there is no way to fix this other than getting a new pc?

[Dormant God]

Well if you want to wait for Thunderbolt 3 to have a "CPU" form that the GPU has to allow "High Graphical gaming" on a laptop which is not going to happen because I can see into the future of stupid Ideas

[manikyath]

5 minutes ago, Garrison Marsh said:

So basically there is no way to fix this other than getting a new pc?

since people are screaming their hats off at a cpu bottleneck, please try this:

both you (with your i3, PS, please add which specific one you have), and your friend join the same server, and take note of framerates. the i7-6500u is nothing fancy, but it should not hilareously underperform compared to a desktop i3.

[Droidbot]

4 minutes ago, Garrison Marsh said:

So basically there is no way to fix this other than getting a new pc?

Pretty much, yeah. Some units of the RBS have a super bad thermal throttling issue fixed on the newer units. 

[Dormant God]

It could also be Ram based but doesn't the Razer have some ridiculous laptop ram?

[Garrison Marsh]

4 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Some units of the RBS have a super bad thermal throttling issue fixed on the newer units. 

So would razer replace it with a new one that wouldnt have this problem?

[Droidbot]

4 minutes ago, Dormant God said:

It could also be Ram based but doesn't the Razer have some ridiculous laptop ram?

Board soldered afaik

 

1 minute ago, Garrison Marsh said:

So would razer replace it with a new one that wouldnt have this problem?

They should, yes. 

[Dormant God]

probably not

Because they are money hunger

[Garrison Marsh]

6 minutes ago, manikyath said:

please add which specific one you have

I have an i3 4170

[manikyath]

3 minutes ago, Garrison Marsh said:

I have an i3 4170

try the thing i said, i'm not expecting the i7 to perform greatly, but i dont quite expect it to be *this* terrible.

[Dormant God]

It could be a number of things, RAM, slow internet connection but it could mainly be the CPU