Y570 - Why do games run better off my battery and choppy when its plugged in?

[velenoso666]

Some believe these 301.10 64-bit WHQL should be the drivers to use (WHQL), since I don't have Nvidia card in this laptop I can't give them a go, could someone try them out and post back?

[zitnikp]

EDITED: Thanks velenoso666 for the heads up about those drivers, but they are for the desktop gpu gtx680. The driver is not made for the mobile gpu's. The only driver from the R300 series that is made for the mobile gpu, is the one I posted, the 301.24 beta driver(unfortunatly) and it does not show any noticable improvements.

EDIT #2: Since the original post, I've been playing bf3 and I have had no stuttering. I find that interesting and would like to ask some more owners of the y570 to do a clean installation of the 301.24 beta drivers and try gaming for an hour straight and report if they still have stuttering or is it gone. I hope it removes the stuttering for you guys aswell. I'll try some more hard gaming tomorrow for few hours and report if it still doesn't stutter. Btw I was testing with turbo boost ON. Battlefield 3 on medium settings with adaptive vertical sync turned on, constant 50-60fps even in cluster scenes.

[Genius2142]

I have been following this thread for awhile now because I've been really pissed at stuttering in games. Like everyone else here, I upgraded to 296.10 drivers from 285 drivers hoping to get better performance in games like skyrim. But like everyone here I experienced stuttering ingame as a result of the CPU throttling way before 100C. Disabling Turbo with throttlestop helped but with newer games like Batman Arkham City you need turbo to play smoothly. 

But now I just updated my drivers to the 301.24 Beta drivers from Nvidia and I am overjoyed to say that these drivers completely fixed the stuttering problems in games. If anyone is having these problems update to these drivers NOW. 

http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/43710

The new FXAA and adaptive Vsync features are also really nice. Thank you so much Nvidia

[zitnikp]

It's awsome to see that now there's 2 of us that have no stuttering with the new drivers. Let's hope some more people can get this problem fixed I've tried skyrim for 3 hours straight today, not one stutter occured. Pretty happy with the R300 driver series for now.

[nevzat1117]

There is no more sluttering with new drivers. The sluttering problem finally ends. 

[Pito]

The stuttering has stopped, but I get 30~40 FPS on low quality. What are you doing to get high FPS? I played BF3 on low quality with max resolution and I typed "render.drawfps 1" in the console to view my FPS.

[DonSkwareK]

No more stuttering with new drivers! Great! 

[zitnikp]

@ Pito: Try opening the nvidia control panel, choose battlefield 3 in the program settings, then make sure that it is running on single display compatibility mode and with prefer maximum performance on. I am using adaptive vertical synchronization(adaptive vsync) triple buffering turne OFF and gamma correction turned OFF.

[Pito]

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zitnikp wrote:

@ Pito: Try opening the nvidia control panel, choose battlefield 3 in the program settings, then make sure that it is running on single display compatibility mode and with prefer maximum performance on. I am using adaptive vertical synchronization(adaptive vsync) triple buffering turne OFF and gamma correction turned OFF.

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That does make the game smoother, but it makes the game look like crap.

[zitnikp]

Oh that might be the the gamma correction or the quality preset(you can choose from high performance, performance, quality, high quality). I have gamma correction turned off and quality preset set to performance or quality. I forgot to mention that I prefer smoother gameplay than nicer graphics(I know, I'm so oldschool haha). But for better graphics u have to sacrifice quite some fps. But hey, if the older drivers worked better for you, you can always rollback the drivers! Well at least that's a good thing