How to increase FPS for Assassin's Creed Unity, Need For Speed Rivals,Dead Rising 3, Watch Dogs

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I am using a laptop which has AMD Radeon HD 7470M & 8GB Ram. After I played the games (as mentioned above), I faced lot of FPS problems of especially Assassin's Creed Unity which also has graphics glitch. I have put all to Low graphics settings, vsync off, updated the graphics driver & used TheWorse's Watch Dogs graphics fix, its still the same. Is there any PERMENANT fix for each of these following games?
 
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You will never be able to run ANY of these games with your laptop. The card is for entry level notebooks while all of the games mentioned have fairly high requirements. AC: Unity requires a GTX 680 for minimum settings which would probably be valued at just under £200 if it were still sold.
I was using a GT 630M in my laptop and it struggled with low settings at 720p on the other games you mentioned.

The only fix you can hope to have any effect would be to buy a completely new powerful desktop PC. As I said, all games listed have high requirements, so spending something like £500 on a PC will be very unlikely to net you any decent gaming.

Or you could just cope with having a laptop that was designed for multimedia usage such as music...

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Did you say Watch Dogs 2? It will be worse than this, who know. But yeah, i'll rather build a Desktop or something. Let's see if Ubisoft will learn something from its "buggy" games after the release of Far Cry 4, which is tomorrow.
 

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You will never be able to run ANY of these games with your laptop. The card is for entry level notebooks while all of the games mentioned have fairly high requirements. AC: Unity requires a GTX 680 for minimum settings which would probably be valued at just under £200 if it were still sold.
I was using a GT 630M in my laptop and it struggled with low settings at 720p on the other games you mentioned.

The only fix you can hope to have any effect would be to buy a completely new powerful desktop PC. As I said, all games listed have high requirements, so spending something like £500 on a PC will be very unlikely to net you any decent gaming.

Or you could just cope with having a laptop that was designed for multimedia usage such as music, films and browsing...
 
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Well, we should give other gamers a clear information on which graphics card to choose, including you & me.

For Nvidia, there are 3 digits of which the last digit & the last letter(for some Nvidia graphics cards) is totally ignorable for example for GT 630M, the zero & letter M. The 1st 2 digits are of some useful info to help us to choose a right graphics card. The 1st digit indicates the generation of the series of graphics card(may be of some importance). The 2nd digit indicates how powerful it is. If the number is between 0-4,they are considered as Entry-Level and they dont have a letter X beside GT. If the number is between 5-9, you will be able to play most of the games & they are identifiable when they have a X beside the GT, for example GTX650M. Out of the numbers 5-9, 5 and 6 are usually considered Mid-range, 7 is High-end & 8 and 9 are Enthusiast. While the GeForce 100 to 900 series is available for both laptops & desktops, TITAN series is available only for desktops and is more powerful than 900 series/

For AMD, its the same concept applied. Only difference is there are 4 numbers of which the last digit & last letter are always ignorable for example AMD Radeon HD 7470M . Only matters for gamers are the 1st 3 digits. 1st digit indicates the generation, 2nd digit indicates performance(among the generation),3rd digit indicates which card is more powerful(among the batch of performance that belong to generation or also know as refined performance). In the 2nd digit(or the performance among generation which i call), if number is between 3-6, its considered as Entry level. 7 is considered as Mid-Range, 8 is considered as High-end & 9 is considered as Enthusiast. Remember AMD Radeon HD 7000 & 8000 series are for both laptops & desktops while Rx 200 series i.e. R5, R7, R9 are only for desktops. R5 series are for Entry-level, R7 series are for Mid-range & R9 are for High-end & Enthusiast. The Rx 200 series is much more powerful than the HD 8000 series.

I'll explain the 4 levels: Entry level, Mid-range,High-end, Enthusiast. Entry level is considered the lousiest graphics cards & these cards are often integrated with Intel HD Graphics. I am not trying to criticize this batch of graphics card, you will be able to play games with just-good configurations like Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 4, Sleeping Dogs, Hitman Absolution, Max Payne 3, Thief(2014), Tomb Raider(2013),Saints Row IV,Medal of Honor Warfighter ,Mass Effect 3,Far Cry 3,Wolfenstein The New Order and much much older games & it is inexpensive. Right now, I realized that my laptop is not good for gaming because I have this graphics card despite the fact that I have 8GB memory with i5 processor of 2.5GHz. Mid-range is just safe. High end is better than mid-range and Enthusiast is the highest level & quality of graphics cards. So in short, higher the number value, more powerful the graphics card. And more powerful the graphics card, more expensive it is to buy.
 

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Great post! It's got a reasonable amount of detail of which the cards offer. I'd have loved if I found something like this when buying a new PC, however, there is one thing I'd like to disagree with.

Entry level cards in desktops are NEVER worth buying. They tend to offer very little performance for the price and will almost always be useful for the same tasks an entry level card would be. It's not until the mid-range cards that it becomes worth looking at as I believe they tend to have a great performance to price ratio. Enthusiast levels are pretty similar to entry level cards for pricing though, it doesn't seem worth it (at least for Nvidia, I'm less sure about AMD)
 

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Enthusiast cards have same pricing as Entry Level cards? Who said? It is impossible. AS I SAID, MORE POWERFUL THE CARD, MORE EXPENSIVE IT IS BECAUSE MORE COMPONENTS, PARTICULARLY THE MEMORY ARE NEEDED. SO WHEN YOU RUN A GAME, GAME'S VIDEO MEMORY FULFILLS THE COMPUTER'S VIDEO MEMORY & IT RUNS SMOOTHLY. HOWEVER, IF YOU PLAY FOR LONG, THERE ARE HIGH CHANCES FOR IT TO PRODUCE HEAT & IN EXTREME CASES, IT BURNS THE WHOLE GPU, THUS LEADING TO YOU GETTING INJURED & COMPUTER GETS DESTROYED IN THE PROCESS. SO YOU NEED A COOLER, WHICH CONSIST OF HEAT SINK & FAN. SO IF GPU HAS MORE MEMORY, YOU OBVIOUSLY NEED LIKE 2 OR 3 FANS TO MAKE ITS TEMPERATURE TO NORMAL STATE.

I guess the gamers need some good exposure on engineering(How the GPU works) & business(Why powerful GPU should be expensive).
 

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Sorry for the late response, but I never did say entry level cards are the same price as enthusiast grade, I just said they're not as worthwhile buying because for the cost/performance ratio, they will actually cost more. Similar to buying a bottle of coke. You buy a can for (made up but possibly close numbers using GBP/Metric) 25p/100ml, but can buy a 2 litre bottle for 10p/100ml.

Not sure why heat, cooling and RAM usage has become a focus point of discussion...