Should my laptop be running this slowly?

[jldstuff393]

This is one of my first forum posts so forgive me for bad etiquette.

I have a 2nd gen i7 processor and a Radeon HD 6490M GPU but most games are too slow to be playable. I would imagine my hardware should be decent enough, am I wrong?
My graphics card is not showing up in the adapter drop-down box--only the intel graphics family... could that be causing the bad performance?

Any info is appreciated.
John

[NaturalViolence]

Which games? How slow?

[LordVador]

And which i7 processor is it exactly?

[AnyOldName3]

His profile says it's an i7-2670QM @ 2.20 GHz

[LordVador]

Yep . So that probably explains this:

(06-14-2013, 06:13 AM)jldstuff393 Wrote: most games are too slow to be playable

[jldstuff393]

(06-14-2013, 06:16 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Which games? How slow?

Mario Kart Wii runs well, New Super Mario Bros. runs decently, mario galaxy 2 is unplayable -- going between 60% and 75% speed, Okami runs at around 85% speed and freezes occasionally.

(06-14-2013, 07:07 AM)LordVador Wrote: Yep . So that probably explains this:

(06-14-2013, 06:13 AM)jldstuff393 Wrote: most games are too slow to be playable

so you're saying the processor is the bottleneck, not the gpu?

[NaturalViolence]

jldstuff393 Wrote:Mario Kart Wii runs well, New Super Mario Bros. runs decently, mario galaxy 2 is unplayable -- going between 60% and 75% speed, Okami runs at around 85% speed and freezes occasionally.

That's completely normal for your hardware.

jldstuff393 Wrote:so you're saying the processor is the bottleneck, not the gpu?

Yes that's what he was implying.

[jldstuff393]

That's disappointing but thanks for your help. I read on another thread that even though the adapter drop-down only shows intel graphics as an option, it still sees and uses the dedicated graphics card. Can someone confirm that? It seems kinda weird to me.

[admin89]

Mario Galaxy require i5 3570k @ 4.2GHz
Your i7 is too weak for that game
If Dolphiin used Intel GPU , MK Wii and NSMB would be unplayable

[jldstuff393]

got it, thanks everyone!