Lenovo IdeaPad Y410p - Dying Light Performance Test

[@rogeriofernandes2379]

How do you used shadowplay if it's not a gtx series?

[@MethosTR]

You should get better results with textures on medium. Your frame buffer maxes out with high textures, hence the stuttering (Shadowplay won't cause that much stuttering).

[@byte.me_original]

Yeah, I noticed later on that it goes over 2 GB with High textures. Setting it on High and running Shadowplay made the stutters worse. It does stutter without SP, but not as badly as you see here in the video. The stutters were mild and don't occur as often. But I must say, even on Medium textures the game still looks good. Just don't get close to the graffiti and other writing on walls.

[@WUTTAFRIK]

Really good question: How can you use shadow play when you don't have a GTX series? I'm pretty sure I have the same exact laptop as you, but I can't use those features

[@byte.me_original]

You can force it to use Shadowplay as long as you have a Kepler GPU (I think). Anyway, just find the GeForce Experience executable, right-click on it, select Properties, and place "-shadowplay" (without quotes) at the end of the file path. I recommend creating a shortcut for the executable before doing this. That way, opening the shortcut would launch Shadowplay as required.

[@WUTTAFRIK]

Hey, you're awesome

[@byte.me_original]

Take note that Shadowplay will only work with DirectX games, at least for now. Also, the longer it is active while gaming (recording or not), the more severe the framerate hiccups in the recording gets. This issue may be VRAM size related, but having no GTX GPU to actually test this theory on, I can't tell for sure.

[@WUTTAFRIK]

Dude, thank you so much! One more question, though: have you modified your rig in any ways? You seem to have better performance...

[@byte.me_original]

Nope. I've tried overclocking my GPU twice to the limit set by the BIOS (+135 MHz), but that's it. I'm usually not comfortable with overclocking -- at least on a laptop -- and I often stick to the stock configuration. If your games seem to run slow than expected, check if they use the proper GPU. Switchable graphics tech, which is implemented in multimedia laptops, are sometimes not taken into account by game devs at game launch, and requires a patch to resolve the issue. Forcing the laptop to use the correct GPU is a workaround for the time being. Also, a single 750M or 755M cannot be expected to handle graphically-intensive games from 2013 onwards (mostly) in 1080p, especially if you set them to the highest possible settings. Texture quality is okay to leave at max, since it's highly VRAM dependent, at least on many games from 2014 or earlier. I mostly play in 1366 x 768 and I'm more than satisfied with it.

[@CBDem0n]

will you be doing GTA 5 benchmark?

[@MarcusKennedy]

+1 for GTA 5 Benchmark!

[@byte.me_original]

Tim Rawket Should I? No, I'm kidding. I would, as soon as free enough space for it. More than 50 GB, gawd! My HDD is packed as it is!

[@MarcusKennedy]

Lol, it took me 2 days to download it. 59gb!

[@byte.me_original]

Unfortunately, good internet speed here is expensive. Anyway, the bigger problem for me is the HDD space than the net speed.

[@Treeclimberz]

I also have have a lenovo y410p with the same specs as yours, except I have a 1600x900 screen and a 755m, but I only get 20 fps in dying light. What can I do to increase the performance?

[@byte.me_original]

Moonkey Using the same settings as the video? Then decrease resolution to 1366 x 768.

[@Trafalgar65]

Do you have SLI or is it just one 750m?

[@byte.me_original]

Single. I've heard this game has terrible SLI support as of yet.

[@EarlSmithie]

Do you think my Lenovo Y40 can run this game decently? It has an Intel Core i7-5500U, 512GB SSD, 8GB RAM, AMD Radeon R9 M275 4GB Graphics Card... Hope you can answer :)

[@sand9500]

Go to amd catalyst. Type in search switch .. then add a program. Change to high performance then your good

[@byte.me_original]

x xris This particular laptop never came with an AMD.

[@AntaresBugi]

when you turn off your shadow play, how's the avarage fps?

[@byte.me_original]

Barely anything different. Probably add 1 fps in some parts.

[@AntaresBugi]

then what happened if you turn off the vsync? i always experienced, when vsync turned off, the fps going higher significantly..

[@byte.me_original]

Antares Bugi V-sync just locks the max framerate to your display's refresh rate. So, if your display supports 60 Hz (which is common nowadays), max framerate will cap at 60 fps and eliminate screen tearing. No point in disabling that here, as this game is pretty heavy to run. Why, I could barely hit 60 with everything low/disabled.

[@AntaresBugi]

yap i know, but sometimes if i turn on the vsync, i only got ~30 fps (never touched 60 fps). but if i turned off the vsync, i've got more than 50 fps.

[@byte.me_original]

Ah, right. There are a few games like that, but Dying Light isn't one of them. Even with v-sync on you can see in some parts of the video that I could go past 30 fps.

[@FamousAnous]

Total War Attila?

[@teambulgars4492]

Dude it's not about the fps... you are freezing as fuck! But still 25-30 could be considered playable.

[@byte.me_original]

It's more like skipping than freezing. Anyway, it wasn't anywhere near pronounced as that when I wasn't recording. In fact, it only appeared in the recorded video. It wasn't like that at all during recording, from what I remember. Probably a result of VRAM overflow, when you're going over your VRAM capacity. Should be fixed by lowering the texture quality.

[@teambulgars4492]

Wekk i'm running on gtx 860m + intel integrated 1 gb vram smart graphics witch don't give me bonus fps but they help for the skipping and freezing so it's nice to have apu or intel cpu with integrated graphics.

[@byte.me_original]

Hate to break it to you, but when you're gaming (at least for Intel PCs) you either just use your dedicated graphics (Nvidia/AMD) or integrated graphics. Laptops today allow automatic switching to the appropriate GPU for the job, so you'd almost always be using your Nvidia GPU alone when gaming (unless devs didn't program their games with switchable graphics in mind). Your Maxwell 860M is about twice as powerful as my Kepler 750M; it's more efficient, too, than older architecture. The 860M either has a 2 GB VRAM or 4 GB VRAM. If you aren't experiencing skipping when texture quality is maxed on games of late, you probably have one with the 4 GB VRAM.

[@TheJnmiah]

Long loading time.

[@byte.me_original]

I blame Shadowplay for that. Without it, loading only takes a few seconds.