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[Alymbic]

Seeing as my old thread in beta support has gone AWOL on me, I thought I'd put it back in here, as the response to the last one indicated that a fair amount of people had this issue.

For some reason the latest patch has had issues with nvidia mobile graphics cards. I wont go into detail with the specifics (it regards a renamed .exe), but I dropped from about 40fps in the mechlab to about 10 - 14. This is how to work around that issue.

First open your NVIDIA control panel, which can be found in your normal control panel settings.

Secondly, click on the manage 3D settings tab on the left, and click the 'add' button.

This will open a pop-up window. Scroll through and find the mwoclient.exe in your install folder. Default location is: C:\Games\Piranha Games\MechWarrior Online\Bin32\MWOclient.exe

From there, change your preferred graphics processor from intergrated (which is the core of the issue) to your nvidia high performance card, then click save on the bottom right corner.



That should return your fps back to normal. Note that this fix only concerns mobile nvidia cards, but im told the theory is similiar to mobile AMD chips.

Edited by Alymbic, 29 October 2012 - 05:33 PM.

[Weyoun]

had to do something very similiar with the GTX 660 ti lol
Global settings > power management > prefer max performance on the card its self

[Xendojo]

This worked for me to fix an FPS drop i had after the patch on the 25th.

But the thing is i had done this before the patch. Apparently the patch on the 25th renamed the actual .exe. So you have to remake your nvidia 3d profile for the new .exe or you're gonna have a bad time.

Anyone got the nvidia 3d profile settings for dual core systems? This would be a good place for them.

Edited by Xendojo, 29 October 2012 - 05:28 PM.

[Hayashi]

Xendojo, on 29 October 2012 - 05:27 PM, said:

But the thing is i had done this before the patch. Apparently the patch on the 25th renamed the actual .exe. So you have to remake your nvidia 3d profile for the new .exe or you're gonna have a bad time.

Same here.

[Alymbic]

Xendojo, on 29 October 2012 - 05:27 PM, said:

But the thing is i had done this before the patch. Apparently the patch on the 25th renamed the actual .exe. So you have to remake your nvidia 3d profile for the new .exe or you're gonna have a bad time.

Hence why in my post I included adding the new .exe to your 3d profile. I can only hope that they can find a way to intergrate this fix, else a lot of newbies are going to be wondering why their framerate is so poor.

[Berserker]

Thanks for re-posting. I did this *way* back at the beginning of beta but it didn't occur to me to reconfigure this again when I handed my wife the laptop for open beta...

[Mitta]

What driver version do you use. I don't have a choice between graphics processors. (perhaps I don't have an integrated processor but I just want to be sure )

[Evgeny Bear]

Hmm for me... I have no preset "high performance" button... have to do settings manually. also no rendering frame 0, only the option to chose 1.

[Aym]

I still get significant drops around multiple smoke effects, I'm not sure if it's unique to newer nVida M series cards or what.

[Shortbus]

thanks that got me a couple more frames

[Cest7]

Aym, on 30 October 2012 - 03:53 AM, said:

I still get significant drops around multiple smoke effects, I'm not sure if it's unique to newer nVida M series cards or what.

i get this with my gtx 460, smoke, lrms and particles just kill my fps.

[Waladil]

DEAR GOD THANK YOU.

15FPS at the best, 4FPS at the worst was absolutely unplayable.

[TunaR]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[Sand Lantern]

I have a GeForce GT 230M card in my computer, but when I go to the 3D settings, I don't get an option to switch preferred Graphics Card. I would assume that means that my computer always has the graphics card able to be run and doesn't switch between the two?

Edited by Sand Lantern, 03 November 2012 - 01:03 PM.

[Beo Vulf]

Alymbic, on 29 October 2012 - 05:15 PM, said:

Seeing as my old thread in beta support has gone AWOL on me, I thought I'd put it back in here, as the response to the last one indicated that a fair amount of people had this issue.

For some reason the latest patch has had issues with nvidia mobile graphics cards. I wont go into detail with the specifics (it regards a renamed .exe), but I dropped from about 40fps in the mechlab to about 10 - 14. This is how to work around that issue.

First open your NVIDIA control panel, which can be found in your normal control panel settings.

Secondly, click on the manage 3D settings tab on the left, and click the 'add' button.

This will open a pop-up window. Scroll through and find the mwoclient.exe in your install folder. Default location is: C:\Games\Piranha Games\MechWarrior Online\Bin32\MWOclient.exe

From there, change your preferred graphics processor from intergrated (which is the core of the issue) to your nvidia high performance card, then click save on the bottom right corner.



That should return your fps back to normal. Note that this fix only concerns mobile nvidia cards, but im told the theory is similiar to mobile AMD chips.

Believe it or not this problems seems to crop up on desk tops with Nvidia cards, and making this change on your desktop will also fix the problem. The problem is related to some change in the code that came out just before the open BETA it stopped recognizing some Nvidia cards.

[AvatarofWhat]

Sand Lantern, on 03 November 2012 - 01:03 PM, said:

I have a GeForce GT 230M card in my computer, but when I go to the 3D settings, I don't get an option to switch preferred Graphics Card. I would assume that means that my computer always has the graphics card able to be run and doesn't switch between the two?

same question...

[Marithiel]

Ok, So I just updated to the latest Nvidia driver and now have this GeForce Experience thing instead of the control panel. Of course it fails to detect any games and even says my GPU doesn't meet specs. It's a 650M for pete's sake.

So now I have 10FPS in games.

I'm assuming it is the same problem where the game is using the intel graphics and not the Nvidia 650.

Any ideas?

EDIT: I reinstalled the drivers and it now uses the right graphics card

Edited by Direwolf2, 26 March 2013 - 11:44 PM.