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I just bought a Lenovo IdeaPad 320, i5 8th gen, 2gb Mx150 , 8gb Ram , 1tb storage.

It's my first personal laptop also I thought I would start light and casual gaming but the graphics just won't work I tried reinstalling the drivers, directly plugging it through the adapter, putting it on max performance mode, setting the graphics to Nvidia card. But nothing... I saw guys on YouTube with way more fps but at my side games are unplayable. I am new to this Gamers World, help me guys 

P.s I'm running 8.1 win , it's constantly stuck into my head that is some problem of windows?

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MX150 is pretty bad.  You should be playing with a resolution of 1280x720 or similar with low detail settings.

 

W8/8.1/10 is faster than W7, so yeah, its not Windows.

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12 minutes ago, Ateeb7 said:

I just bought a Lenovo IdeaPad 320, i5 8th gen, 2gb Mx150 , 8gb Ram , 1tb storage.

It's my first personal laptop also I thought I would start light and casual gaming but the graphics just won't work I tried reinstalling the drivers, directly plugging it through the adapter, putting it on max performance mode, setting the graphics to Nvidia card. But nothing... I saw guys on YouTube with way more fps but at my side games are unplayable. I am new to this Gamers World, help me guys 

P.s I'm running 8.1 win , it's constantly stuck into my head that is some problem of windows?

They released 2 GPUs by that same name and you appear to have gotten the wimpy one, that card was never very powerful but the original one is about 50% more powerful.

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I think you got the gimped 15w version. RIP :( There isnt much you can do about it 

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1, how can I check that I have gotten the worse of the 2 cards ?

2, Nvidia Graphics Activity is always none in the bar! No matter what application or game I use ? 

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1 minute ago, Ateeb7 said:

1, how can I check that I have gotten the worse of the 2 cards ?

2, Nvidia Graphics Activity is always none in the bar! No matter what application or game I use ? 

Also the reason I got 8.1 win is because Nvidia drivers just won't install in win10 at that time

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10 hours ago, Ateeb7 said:

1, how can I check that I have gotten the worse of the 2 cards ?

 

GPU Z, It should tell you the wattage of the MX150. If its 15W then you got gimped by Nvidia :( 

Primary Laptop (Gearsy MK4): Ryzen 9 5900HX, Radeon RX 6800M, Radeon Vega 8 Mobile, 24 GB DDR4 2400 Mhz, 512 GB SSD+1TB SSD, 15.6 in 300 Hz IPS display

2021 Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition

 

Secondary Laptop (Uni MK2): Ryzen 7 5800HS, Nvidia GTX 1650, Radeon Vega 8 Mobile, 16 GB DDR4 3200 Mhz, 512 GB SSD 

2021 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 

 

Meme Machine (Uni MK1): Shintel Core i5 7200U, Nvidia GT 940MX, 24 GB DDR4 2133 Mhz, 256 GB SSD+500GB HDD, 15.6 in TN Display 

2016 Acer Aspire E5 575 

 

Retired Laptop (Gearsy MK2): Ryzen 5 2500U, Radeon Vega 8 Mobile, 12 GB 2400 Mhz DDR4, 256 GB NVME SSD, 15.6" 1080p IPS Touchscreen 

2017 HP Envy X360 15z (Ryzen)

 

PC (Gearsy): A6 3650, HD 6530D , 8 GB 1600 Mhz Kingston DDR3, Some Random Mobo Lol, EVGA 450W BT PSU, Stock Cooler, 128 GB Kingston SSD, 1 TB WD Blue 7200 RPM

HP P7 1234 (Yes It's Actually Called That)  RIP 

 

Also im happy to answer any Ryzen Mobile questions if anyone is interested! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On 5/16/2018 at 8:07 AM, Ateeb7 said:

1, how can I check that I have gotten the worse of the 2 cards ?

2, Nvidia Graphics Activity is always none in the bar! No matter what application or game I use ? 

Also the reason I got 8.1 win is because Nvidia drivers just won't install in win10 at that time

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Ok,Now taken matters more seriously ! 

I checked some forum and found that the problem I had installing Nvidia drivers on win10 was because of win version 

Also I was right when I thought Graphics Card isn't being utilized ! 

But now what I have to do peeps?

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8.1 or 10 does not matter, performance between them is only marginally different.

 

What is the clock speed reported by GPU-Z for your GPU?

 

Also, make sure your NVidia control panel looks something like this...

If you its set to maximum power savings by default the GPU will not be used.  Also, there is likely an option in the UEFI to disable the discrete GPU.

 

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4 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

8.1 or 10 does not matter, performance between them is only marginally different.

 

What is the clock speed reported by GPU-Z for your GPU?

I haven't checked yet 

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2 minutes ago, Ateeb7 said:

I haven't checked yet 

Check power profile settings as well, updated my post with a sample screenshot.

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2 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Check power profile settings as well, updated my post with a sample screenshot.

I'm getting this on graphics tab...

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1 hour ago, KarathKasun said:

8.1 or 10 does not matter, performance between them is only marginally different.

 

What is the clock speed reported by GPU-Z for your GPU?

 

Also, make sure your NVidia control panel looks something like this...

If you its set to maximum power savings by default the GPU will not be used.  Also, there is likely an option in the UEFI to disable the discrete GPU.

 

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Yes I have my power settings to max performance.

 

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Gpu Z shows this !

3 minutes ago, Ateeb7 said:

Yes I have my power settings to max performance.

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Ateeb7 said:

Yes I have my power settings to max performance.

 

 

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3 hours ago, Ateeb7 said:

I'm getting this on graphics tab...

What about this menu in NVidia control panel...

 

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Choose the game executable at option 1

Choose High performance at option 2

 

That should fix it.

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21 hours ago, KarathKasun said:

Have tried , still  doesn't work 

Fps conter shows graphics card usage at 0%  and Nvidia activity at None 

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I think it has something to do with UEFI 

I don't know what it means... But on GPU Z it's checked on Ms graphics adapter but not on Nvidia Graphics

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Thats not it.

 

You should try uninstalling and reinstalling the intel and nv drivers.  Windows is not activating nv optimus for some reason.

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5 hours ago, KarathKasun said:

Thats not it.

 

You should try uninstalling and reinstalling the intel and nv drivers.  Windows is not activating nv optimus for some reason.

I already tried uninstalling/reinstalling nv drives like 3 times 

 

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