Brand new gaming laptop isnt running games it should be able to.

MoyoCho

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I just purchased a Lenovo Y70 from best buy and tried to play Rust, it played at 5FPS with all graphic settings. It is running other games like CSGO at 100+FPS and Dont Starve at 60FPS which is the cap for that game anyway. The specs are Intel I7 quad core and 2.60 GHz, 16 GB ram, GTX 960M 1 TB Hard drive and 8GB ssd. I have no idea how or why I am unable to run Rust at any level. I can play Rust at Beautiful graphic settings with 40 FPS on my desktop, which cost half this laptop did. Before you tell me I could have just upgrade my desktop with the money I spent, I cant. My desktop is slowly breaking and I am having to replace external and internal parts over time from having to move the desktop place to place. Please help me out here as I really want to play games like Fallout 4 and Rust on this, but if it cant play rust then I obviously cant play fallout 4.
 

vlxedits

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Seen issues like this all the time with Lenovo gaming laptops, the laptops come running the onboard intel graphics instead of their discrete gpu. First, check in device manager under display adapter if the 960m shows up
 

jsmurray2

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I have the new y50 which is very similar. Check your Nvidia control panel to change what GPU you run certain applications with. Things like browsers and word processors should be ran on the Intel to conserve power while more resource intensive tasks like video rendering and games should be ran on the GeForce card. If you haven't done so, I would recommend downloading GeForce Experience which you can use to easily keep your GPU up to date and optimize games to get the most out of your hardware. You should be able to play Rust and any other new games without hindrance.
 

MoyoCho

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Hey mates, thanks for the answers, apologies for the late reply. I forgot to check this but ended up returning this laptop and purchasing a ASUS ROG gaming laptop. My stuff wasn't running yet again, until I realized this had the same issue. These laptops really need to come with some kind of note that it may use the Intel graphics for games unless you specify. When I switched over to the GTX 970m in Nvidia Control Panel it made a huge difference. I would think a small note from the company would be a good idea rather than having your customers attempt to figure it out themselves.