Most of the games are lagging on my brother 's laptop?

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The only game that is working fine is GTA V (High settings with 30+ fps) however there is some weird screen flickering, and dying light, the game is running on low with 20-30 fps. I am not sure how much fps for far cry 4 but it's laggy too! his old laptop might have performed alittle bit better

His specs:
6GB RAM
Intel core I5 4210U
R7 M260 2GB.

Old laptop specs:
4GB RAM
Intel core i3-2350M 2.4 GHz
GT 520MX 1GB

He have windows 10 however he is currently updating to a new driver update that came 3 days ago i think, but i don't think that would change anything much! need help?
 

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The performance you are getting is completely expected. Those specs are nowhere near enough for graphically intense games. Even if you lower all the settings down it will be tough.
 
Laptops are for business work... Word, Excel, web browsing, stuff like that. They do not contain enough fans and cooling to run at full power for long periods of time. Which is what games require. Business apps allow the laptop time to dissipate the heat that is generated when they have to work for a few seconds. Games do not have those pauses.
 


If you want to play newer games at high FPS on a laptop it will require an 880M/970M/980M as a minimum which can get pretty expensive. My last laptop I bought last year has an i7 and 880M and cost $2,500 at the time with the rest of the hardware. I'd recommend either lowering the resolution or just building a cheap gaming desktop that can get you better performance for less $$. Or just lower the resolution and turn off stuff like AA and see if you can bump the performance until it is playable on that laptop.
 

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Well he is sad and I thought I would be able to help him somehow, his laptop was a gift by my father so I guess I could have expected that. honestly thought it would run good because I thought it was just a mobile version of the R7 260 which is a decent card and thought that the performance decrease would be just alittle bit, however i just i am wrong.

 
Any time you see a mobile CPU or GPU, consider it to be 2 levels below the number it shows. So the R7 260M would run more like a desktop R7 240. They have to keep the power consumption down to allow for decent battery life, and as I mentioned earlier, they are constantly worried about heat in a laptop. So the less power the laptop consumes, the less heat it creates as well.
 


Yeah, unfortunately mobile gpus never correlate to desktop numbering in terms of performance; like my 880M is around the performance of a GTX 760, not a 780. He can still play a lot of games at good FPS at 1366x768 or 1024x768; looking at that link I posted you: Bioshock Infinite, Starcraft II, Grid 2, Tomb Raider, Dead Space 3, Far Cry 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Dishonored, Diablo III, Mass Effect 1-3, Skyrim, Battlefield 3, Batman Arkham City, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dirt 3, Total War: Shogun 2, Mafia 2, Resident Evil 5, Company of Heroes, Dota 2, Total War: Rome 2, X Plane, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Sims 3&4, FIFA 15, F1 2014, and Battlefied: Hardline all show as playable at 30 FPS or higher at those resolutions, it's just the newest and/or most demanding ones that will be out of reach like Witcher 3/Crysis 3 etc.
 

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His favourite game is actually dying light which unfortunately isn't running so well.