Acquired 2017 Alienware laptop
Acquired 2017 Alienware laptop. Data: 17 "fullhd display; i7-3610qm; 16gb ram; ssd128g + 1000gb hddgtx970m for 6 GB (I'll say right away that the video card is not built-in from the factory, but was purchased separately in the CSN in 2019 and installed with the help of a wizard in the salon). I purchased this laptop through Avito. When checking on the spot, no friezes and lags were found when working with the system. At home when starting games: The Witcher 3 (from time to time the image just froze and had to be closed through the task manager) Mount 2 Bannerlord (From time to time an error popped up when the GPU was overloaded, and no matter what settings were on) even in DotA the image just froze, as in the Witcher. I decided that I needed to completely demolish Windows and put everything on a new one, however, when reinstalling Windows to 10, problems began. Although the drivers are all new, and through the Nvidia control panel everything is set for maximum performance, but all games slow down and are automatically adjusted to the minimum settings, although it is the discrete video card that is active, and not the integrated one. In the device manager, the video card is displayed, everything is fine, the firewood is well. What could be the problem? Prompt an inexperienced user.
Accusator wrote:
gtx970m for 6 GB (I'll say right away that the video card is not built-in from the factory, but was purchased separately in the CSN in 2019 and installed with the help of a wizard in the salon).
When checking on the spot, no friezes and lags were found when working with the system.
As I understand it, the games did not start at all when checking, again using MSI Afterburner to see the work of the hardware, checking and tests using AIDA64.
Accusator wrote:
Although the drivers are all new
. Alternatively, you can try to install different versions of the drivers, just make a clean installation, check again that a High-performance NVIDIA processor is selected, if this does not help then carry it to some workshop to test.
It would be necessary to see what exactly is loaded in the games for a start and then decide. As for the "hardware" above, they correctly wrote, using the same AIDA64 or analogs, you can check the stability of the hardware. And so, a strange 2017 laptop with a 12-year-old processor is somehow not very ...
from the description of the problem, I would assume that either some kind of overheating occurs or that the video card does not fit in power since it is not native and there most likely was something weaker.