Slower performance with GTX 1050 than HD 630

[spurf]

I have a Dell XPS 15 (9560), full specs.

It runs Mario Kart Wii at 60 FPS using Direct3D 11 on the Intel HD 630 GPU but crawls on the GTX 1050.

I've used the tips found here to no avail.

I'm running the latest Nvidia drivers from the Dell website.
It can run Batman Arkham Origins smoothly at 1080p with maximum settings so I'm confused why it is struggling with this  

[TKSilver]

Side note: native PC gaming has no relation to emulation on the same PC they are different workloads. How well a system runs Crysis (or insert game here) means very little.

Get Nvidia's latest drivers from Nvidia's own site or Geforce Experience (not to mention having access to shadow play and other experience only bonuses)

So you went in and set the gpu to max performance in nvidia's control panel? What tempratures are you getting when running with the 1050 and what temps with the integrated?

[spurf]

(10-09-2017, 07:55 AM)TKSilver Wrote: Side note: native PC gaming has no relation to emulation on the same PC they are different workloads.  How well a system runs Crysis (or insert game here) means very little.

Get Nvidia's latest drivers from Nvidia's own site or Geforce Experience (not to mention having access to shadow play and other experience only bonuses)

So you went in and set the gpu to max performance in nvidia's control panel?  What tempratures are you getting when running with the 1050 and what temps with the integrated?

Thanks for the tips, I'm downloading the drivers now.

I haven't sourced any software to measure temps as I figured that is unlikely to be the cause as it performs poorly from first load and none of the laptop's fans are active. In comparison (keeping your previous comment in mind) the fans are howling while playing Batman Origins 

[TKSilver]

for monitoring only

https://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/
or
https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

For monitoring and GPU tweeking (overclocking or even just fan curves) - does not need to be an msi anything.
https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner

[spurf]

(10-09-2017, 09:19 AM)TKSilver Wrote: for monitoring only

https://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/
or
https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

For monitoring and GPU tweeking (overclocking or even just fan curves) - does not need to be an msi anything.
https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner

Updated drivers didn't do anything unfortunately. I've run HWMonitor and the CPU and GPU temps barely move when running MKW, max temp reached was 52 degrees on the CPU. CPU utilisation is less than 20%.

I've noticed in windowed mode it runs at 15FPS and full-screen 30FPS which are exact fractions of 60FPS. Not sure if that provides any clues to where the problem may lay?

[ExtremeDude2]

Do you have v-sync enabled?

[spurf]

(10-09-2017, 11:24 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: Do you have v-sync enabled?

Yes I do but it doesn't seem to make a difference when I turn it off.

[TKSilver]

Try afterburner and check to see what the core clock speed is while you are running Dolphin, my guess is that it is going to be close to idle speeds.

[Helios]

My guess is that your GPU drivers are confused and are clocking down. Happens with dolphin a lot.

[spurf]

I just discovered that the problem disappears if I am connected to AC, running smooth at 1080p with 16x Antisotropic filtering. There must be some setting that throttles the GPU on battery. This doesn't seem to happen with Batman Origins so not sure where the issue is.

Probably better to use the Intel GPU when on battery anyway.