SC2 lagging hard on new Laptop

NewEyes

Germany113 Posts

July 23 2020 19:30 GMT

Hey, I recently bought this Laptop, hoping to play a bit of sc2 with it:

1 of Lenovo (FullHD 15,6 Zoll) Gaming Notebook (AMD RyzenTM 5 3500U 8-Thread CPU, 3.7 GHz, 12GB DDR4, 256 GB SSD, 1000GB HDD, RadeonTM Vega 8, DVD±RW, HDM

Well, currently I have a about 12 fps on the lowest settings. Already played with the energy options, no results. Task manager says SC2 takes around 90% of my CPU.

This should surely be good enough to run sc2 on low, right? Any idea why my perfomance might be so terrible? Internet connection is fine as well. Thanks for your ideas!

Jan1997

Norway671 Posts

July 24 2020 20:14 GMT

There's definetly something weird going on with your pc.

A few years ago I tried to download some new graphics drivers (which were a hoax) and my pc ended up being super slow until i ran an antivirus scan and had it removed.

Even if your laptop is new I suggest you run a thorough scan to check for any bullshit or faulty software.

3FFA

United States3931 Posts

July 26 2020 17:23 GMT

And just to add to that, I would personally recommend using Bitdefender or Kaspersky, as they're routinely the two highest recommended and most objectively tested of the antivirus companies out. Simply using the Free version is fine, and try to keep to one antivirus on the computer at a time to prevent weird conflicts.

Let us know if that fixes your issue or not!

Xophy

Germany79 Posts

July 27 2020 07:28 GMT

I'm not an expert, but it could be that the CPU is simply to weak (or TDP is too low), considering it also has to provide graphics ... might be that it throttles pretty hard and never reaches 3.7GHz ... you might want to run HWMonitor to check your temps while gaming ...

Cyro

United Kingdom20326 Posts

July 27 2020 08:38 GMT

That's a zen+ ultrabook CPU. It has 15w total for CPU and graphics which is really not enough even on current gen stuff, so i can understand it basically not working at all on older gen which is a lot less efficient. APU's of that power class are better suited for web browsing, word documents etc in small form factor.

12GB dual channel DDR4 is not possible - that must be an 8+4GB config with 4GB of RAM in single channel which is not a good configuration for performance.

12fps still sounds pretty disastrous, maybe try dropping the render resolution to 1280x720 so that the graphics aren't eating all of your power?

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Also, are you BrandNewEyes on EU bnet? :0

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September 11 2020 06:30 GMT

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