Cairnsy said:
Hi guys,
I’m looking for some programs to adjust my graphics settings for old or poorly coded games – I play Skyrim and World of warcraft and suffer from Micro stuttering and poor FPS – I have modified the CCC settings but nothing short of reducing the graphic settings to a lower setting works.
I have a desktop replacement laptop – 2x 7970m’s in Crossfire – i7-3630QM and 16GB RAM 1600MHz – freshly installed OS and up to date drivers.
Modern games like Bio Shock infinite run as smooth as butter on Ultra but it’s the games I play most that give me problems – wow, Skyrim.
Are there any good programs and more importantly graphic settings I should try or reduce to improve FPS and smooth out these games ? I’m not an expert so it’s only the CCC I’ve modified so far – I turned off V-sync and an improvement.
So is there any way I can push more outta these cards? Are these cards viable for old games? What kind of benchmarks should I be aiming as their mobile cards? any advice or help appreciated
This might be completely irrelevant, but I'm just going to throw out an issue I had. I have a single 7970m and an i7 3610QM in my laptop. When I overclocked my 7970m even the slightest bit, my FPS in most games dropped, though my GPU score increased in synthetic benchmarks. I would check to see if you get a strong or "average" GPU score based on what other people with similar rigs have achieved in maybe 3DMark or a Unigine Benchmark.
Long story short, overclocking my GPU did increasue GPU performance, but because I had Hotkey installed (the program that manages backlit keyboard and lighting effects) it for some reason was causing my CPU to only boost to ~2.3 GHz. By installing Throttlestop and checking the Set Multiplier box to Turbo, my CPU ramps all the way up to 3.1-3.2 GHz when gaming, even when I run my 7970m at 1000/1500MHz core/memory speeds.
Hopefully I provided something useful, if not, then perhaps you are having some kind of cooling issue in which case it'd be good to use a program to monitor GPU temps and repaste the GPU cores if needed. I doubt drivers are to blame, 7970m CFX machines are actually quite popular, yet there's always that possibility, and if you end up no being able to figure out a solution, then it would be likely that you would be having a driver issue, though for Skyrim I've never heard of low GPU performance unless you run a modded game in which case there can be more drastic performance hits.
Feel free to ask questions if needed. Good luck.