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[Ryxus]

 Hi everyone!

I'm in dire need of help!
Recently Mass Effect 3 had begun to lag like hell on my laptop. It's wierd because the last time I played it on my laptop I had at least 30fps and now (according to fraps) I get around 6-7.
My config is: Intel Core i3-2330M 2.20Ghz, 4.00Gb RAM, AMD Radeon 6470M 1Gb and it's running on Windows 64bit.
I already tried updating my video card driver (supposably the freshest Catalyst ver.2011.1012.1625.27603), disabling the ingame origins, turning off the vsync and the frameratecap, even tried reinstalling the game, but nothing seems to work.
Please if any of you know another way, to make it work, please tell me!

Thanks in advance.

[OneMore1968]

Hi Ryxus,
It is always going to be tricky playing a game like ME3 on a laptop. The setting of 30fps is very low to start with I should imagine on that it was stuttering in places. but as to why its dropped to 6fps can be tricky to find. It could be the driver has become corrupted by reinstalling it. You say that you have reinstalled the game, what about Windows? The 64bit version can have more driver related issues than 32bit. If you have a restore prior to frame lag, try that. I generally prefer to just bite the bullet and reinstall from an image I know is fine. It takes me an hour to get everything up and running again, against several if you try and troubleshoot every component. Just make sure to back your Bioware save games up and anything else. This should, assuming the fps goes back up, confirm whether the issue is software. If the rate doesn't improve it could be hardware.

Your CPU clock is quite low and the benchmark rating for the 6470M is low, for the HD 6470M it's 296, for the Mobility Radeon 6470M it's 491. Not sure which your card is but any on-board card will be slower than its equivalent standalone. compare this with a fairly mid range standalone, I had an HD 5750 which hooked up to a 1920x1200 display and it ran like treacle whereas ME1 and 2 would run quite happily. it gets a 700 but my latest system is built around an i7 3930k 3.4 12MB L3, 32gb 2400 DDR 5 memory and HD 7970 now hooked to a 2560x1900 monitor which has a 5185 score (there is a 7970M card which scores at 3781 you can see the diff made by having the mobile chip). Game developers never support mobile chipsets because of these issues.

still,if you can get back to 30fps and that felt ok to you then fine. Also post the rest of your specs or make /model number. Btw is this in SP or MP mode or both?

let me know how you get on.

[Ryxus]

Hi, thanks for the answer!
Unfortunately I have no restoration points prior the driver reinstallations/updates. Also to be honest the 30fps was just a guess but I had close to none stuttering before.
I did not reinstall my Windows, and before I'd do that, I'd like to ask is it nessecary for me to do a complete format on the drive and then reinstall or a simple repair like installation would do the trick?
Also I miswrote the VGA type is the AMD HD Radeon 6470M.
The lag is an issue in both SP and MP.
Which is quite wierd because I played trough the SP on this machine when the game came out, without even shutting down the Vsync or any other graphic and there was absolutely no fps lag.
Also I've got to mention that when I go to the AMD page to download the correct driver (either manually or using auto-detect), the driver installer says my PC doesn't have the nessecary graphic adapter.... any idea how to bypass that? (as I said even the auto-detect method says I have the forementioned model and still fails to install it)

Modifié par Ryxus, 26 octobre 2012 - 08:19 .

[nanotm]

Ryxus wrote...

Hi, thanks for the answer!
Unfortunately I have no restoration points prior the driver reinstallations/updates. Also to be honest the 30fps was just a guess but I had close to none stuttering before.
I did not reinstall my Windows, and before I'd do that, I'd like to ask is it nessecary for me to do a complete format on the drive and then reinstall or a simple repair like installation would do the trick?
Also I miswrote the VGA type is the AMD HD Radeon 6470M.
The lag is an issue in both SP and MP.
Which is quite wierd because I played trough the SP on this machine when the game came out, without even shutting down the Vsync or any other graphic and there was absolutely no fps lag.
Also I've got to mention that when I go to the AMD page to download the correct driver (either manually or using auto-detect), the driver installer says my PC doesn't have the nessecary graphic adapter.... any idea how to bypass that? (as I said even the auto-detect method says I have the forementioned model and still fails to install it)

it sounds like theres something running in the backround thats hogging resources, fraps will do that as well and typically you loose around 5 fps just haveing it turned on.

did you install or change your desktop theme? did you enable or disable some desktop settings ?

check that the latest round onf windoz updatews didnt change the power management settings (you should changed the advanced powermanagement feature to always on for the gfx and cpu stuff)

are you playing on mains or battery ? typically battery will give around 10% of normal operating capacity in order to preserver run time

so many questions, laptops are normally easy to fix if its a software related issue without a reformat, but a complete sod if its a hardware issue, desktops are often the other way round .

[Ryxus]

I tried shutting down everything in the background, the desktop theme is the standart one, one lousy wallpaper shouldn't matter IMHO.
The power management is set on maximum performance and if I play I always play on mains.
Since now nothing seems to work, and I have no way to back my files up until next weekend, I'll just have to wait and do a complete redo on my system.
Will get back to you guys, if it worked.
Until than thanks for your advices and if you can add anything to the matter it is welcomed!

[Ryxus]

Just one more thing to mention.

This problem on goes for the Mass Effect 3 only. Skyrim, Arkham City and Dishonred plays fluently on medium-high settings....

Modifié par Ryxus, 26 octobre 2012 - 08:32 .