Oh, that’s not a super major cost, in that case. I guess I’ll have to look further into what the laptop might be capable of as far as Thunderbolt goes. I didn’t even know this was a thing.
So you’d have another graphics card connected through external means and, as long as the laptop can support it and has the right hookup, it’s all good?
This sounds like it may not be an option for me: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Gaming-Laptops/Lenovo-y700-external-gpu/td-p/3376143
Thunderbolt IS USB c. You’re thinking lightning.
Yeah you’d also have to buy an external gpu enclosure though, I don’t remember how much those run. But, then you just plug it into your laptop and your laptop runs graphics off that instead. It’s a great way to give laptops a big boost of power so that you don’t have to give up the mobility, but can still play nice games at home with it plugged in. Ah bummer. Yeah if you don’t have the port you don’t have it. Oh well.
Yeah you’re correct.
I looked up the Thunderbolt port and this laptop does not have what it looks to be. It’s got 4 USB ports, a slot for an SD card, an HDMI port, and an ethernet cable jack.
I have a very similar problem. While my PC can handle The Witcher 3 pretty well, this game is playing at 15-20fps outside towns, and it drops even further in towns. I have already done a benchmark and sent a ticket to Warhorse support, which told me to try a user.cfg fix (didn’t work) and to wait for a future patch. I tried many solutions online, but in the end it seems it might be a problem with the game optimization.
My PC specs are:
i7 2600
GTX 1060 3gb
16gb Ram
Game on SSD
Win10
Everything updated
Edit: My CPU usage was 35% average, while GPU usage was 97% average
I don’t think the issue is game optimization when you’re at unplayable levels of FPS (15-20), I think it’s something with your system configuration. Saying you run Witcher 3 “pretty well” isn’t very informative, also, The Witcher 3 is a highly optimized title these days. Do you run it “pretty well” with HairWorks on?
I normally play The Witcher 3 at 60fps in medium settings. It should be ok to play KCD at least in low, but I don’t know. I tried to disable Anti virus, uninstalled Geforce Experience, uninstalled my drivers and re-installed them, turned on and off many settings in my gpu, etc. Don’t know what else to do and support asked me to wait for a patch…
One of the few thing i don’t have a problem with is the graphics, which have been pretty good and smooth so far. escept for lighting on ultra. on ultra i get all kind of glitches such as ovens flashing in an epileptic seizure inducing way.
my tip for performance - turn shader and shadows to medium and you can ramp everything else up and still get 60 fps.
I dont think so. When out of the game, GPU usage wont go over 8% so I doubt some rogue process is sucking resources.
Try turning post processing down to low. That setting eats lots of fps but doesn’t actually increase graphics much at all. On many game I can run all other settings at ultra as long as I turn post processing off/minimum.
I have same CPU as you, but a gtx 970 and that’s what I’m running KCD on right now. Works fine for me.
As you can see everything is on low. I can get to 30fps if I use a mod to make it look like Morrowind.
These were the screenshots I sent to Support:
Hey, that tailor didn’t render inside the table (3rd pic from bottom). He almost never animates properly on my PS4.
I’ve got the same issue. My system is capable of running the most demanding modern games at high settings and up (i5-7400, 16GB of RAM, RX480), yet I’m not even able to run this game at 40 fps on the lowest settings in 1080p (I have reinstalled Windows just for this game - performance wise there’s no difference on a clean system). I don’t know how people are able to get 60 fps on high settings with RX480 or similar cards, to be honest it looks like you has to be really lucky and run it on very specific hardware in order to be able to play it. I really would like to love this game but at this point I really feel like I have wasted €45, it took me literally an hour to finish the first quest just because of that performance drops…
The game isn’t optimized well.
People with very high end hardware still have bad performance. If you actually open up the console in game the game only recognizes half of your Video RAM. People have also noticed that during game play the game doesn’t utilize half the processing capability nor the half the available system RAM.
I use Optmized Graphics mod and I have to say it is a must have to make the game run smoother until the devs polish it more. I ran on the “high” optimized presets and the game still looks beautiful and I maintain 40-60 fps with minimum stuttering.
This is also one of the most popular mods for the game as of now.
Hit due to handling of Cryengine demands?
Cryengine is demanding, but I think the poor performance has to do with the first day patch that was 20GB.
They had to change a lot of files around and it resulted in some things being unoptmized. Hopefully they fix it soon.
open a console with ~ and type:
r_batchtype 1
You can also try to change the memory heapsize (though I doubt this will do it) by adding the heapsize dip to your KCD shortcut:
“X:\Kingdom Come Deliverance\Bin\Win64\KingdomCome.exe” -heapsize 2097152
Make sure the pathing is proper for your installation. This heapsize is good for 16GB of ram (Though the game still seems to only utilize 4 at a time- maybe GPU memory capped?).
My specs:
i7 2700k
R9 290 4GB (Watercooled)
16GB DDR-3
Game is running on mechanical drive- 50-60fps no major drops running all medium aside from physics/Shadows/Post-Processing which are low.
It’s weird you are only hitting 24% GPU usage. Your GPU clocks a lot higher than mine and your result is very subpar for your hardware. Just out of curiosity…What is your monitor’s “native” resolution?
