Guild Wars 2

I bought a gaming laptop from MSI. Here’s the full description to be exact:

MSI GT Series GT70 Dominator-895 Gaming Laptop Intel Core i7 4800MQ (2.70GHz) 8GB Memory 1TB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 3GB 17.3" Windows 8.1 64-Bit

However, I still get very poor FPS in WvW (15 or so solo and much less than that in large fights). World bosses are even worse.

Oddly enough, despite that description, when I check the Properties window in my PC it says my processor speed is 2.8GHz, but the GPU shows as just “Intel HD Graphics 4600”.

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but is it possible that my laptop is defaulting to using some sort of integreated graphics card and not the NVIDIA GeForce one that it supposedly came with? Maybe that could explain the performance issue.

If that’s not the case, any other suggestions as to what might be causing it?

Thanks in advance!

Oh my, I may have posted this a bit too soon. I just discovered the NVIDIA control panel, which had an option to choose it has the preferred graphics card. HOW HAVE I NOT FOUND THIS BEFORE, I’VE HAD THIS COMPUTER FOR A YEAR!

In my quick test run, I’m now getting 75-90 FPS in WvW, when I was getting 13-15 before (out of combat). Only downside is it gets hella loud with the fan, but worth it!

U can choose which gpu to use when u right click the game icon

Yeah, that sounds about right. My laptop (not gaming) with an i5-4200U and 740M geforce racks up 40s of FPS on high settings.