Daylight, Nvidia 640M LE and a hair dryer

bE0

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Hi guys,

I tried to make the title more interesting but, whatever. Today, I downloaded this scary/horror game called "Daylight". Then i went to "Can You Run It" to check if i can really run it. Unfortunately, my laptop couldn't even make it to minimal, i launched the game thought. At first, it's seemed very laggy and blurry even thought all the settings were set to "Low". So what i did was, i turned off the game, i had a switch above the keyboard and which was set to "STAMINA", i just pulled it to "SPEED" relaunched the game and then i noticed "PhysX > CPU" on top of the screen. The game became very fast, i was even able to set everything to "High" with no fps loss, but when i set the resolution to 1080p, my laptop was way beyond a hair dryer.

So i just want to know if this is what to expect from laptop since it isn't axed for gaming.

As for my components,
CPU: i7-3632QM 2.2Ghz Ivy Bridge
GPU: Intel HD 4000 & Nvidia GeForce GT 640M LE

and thanks for you precious time.
 

Droidius

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Quick run down of GPUs
Stamina uses the HD4000, which is integrated into the i7. It doesn't do games very well. But it doesn't generate much heat.
Speed uses the 640M LE.
The hair dryer noise is from the 640. GPUs create crazy amounts of heat and the laptop needs to keep cool for best performance.
Pretty much, you will be able to run older games on higher settings and new-ish games on low-med.
 

bE0

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So you're saying that the crazy hair dryer noise is normal ?