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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by Mystikk » September 21, 2014 12:05am | Report
So I just bought a brand new laptop yesterday, and while my old - considerably less powerful - laptop was able to run smite rather well with there being little to no lag, the new one for some reason lags up so badly that, in the end, smite just stops working, even on the lowest settings!

What I currently have is:

64bit ASUS Laptop - Windows 8
AMD A10-5650M 2.5GHz
16GB Ram - 2GB Radeon HD 8670M Dedicated Graphics
1TB Hard drive

When I go to play I shut basically everything but my Skype off to the best of my abilities. Anyone got any ideas for what I can do in order to get smite running well?

Edit: I tried playing in windowed mode, and for some reason that seems to work surprisingly well. Anyone got any ideas on this?
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by ICEN » September 21, 2014 8:54am | Report
Well I am playing on a HP laptop which is my brothers and I think it was around $400.
My laptop was more expensive then that and it cannot run smite worth ****.

I am basically saying, just because you spend more money on a laptop doesn't mean its going to be better unless the actual parts inside are better.

Anyways, there is one BIG difference that will make smite run 1000x better if you didn't know.

When I was first on a laptop I didn't know about this, then I realized I could do this...

Look for the battery power icon, usually its in the bottom right corner of your screen. Its the icon that shows how much battery power you have left. Click on it, it should let you switch between a normal/energy efficient setting and the other option should say something like "High Performance".

So yea, on a few laptops I noticed once you put your laptop on high performance it raises your fps and allows you to play smite, if you don't have it on high performance its a bit slower, harder to play.

If you already did that...

Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete > Go into Task Manager

Then go under the tab that says "Processes"

Look at the % of everything running on your laptop, it will show everything running in the background and how much % its taking up. Normally nothing should be above 1% and 1% is kind of pushing it. Usually everything is at like 0% or 0.2%

If you see a something that is taking up like 9% Cpu then that means that is slowing your game down, and when it stops or you close it, it will make smite run better. I can tell, because sometimes I had **** running in the background and I had to go into task manager to see if something was running in the background and sure enough some ******ed thing would be at like 9% running and I would have to close it.

On top of this, Lower the "RESOLUTION" 1024x768 is what mine is set too, I have it on full screen, its not completely full screen because there are two black bars on the side, BUT it makes smite easier to run and I am around 28-30fps when in battle and my fps is above 30fps all the time when not in battle just standing still, ect.

If I change my resolution to something else higher It takes away like 3-6fps maybe even a bit more.

All of these options are found at the top LEFT when you load up smite and are logged in.

I have world detail set to Low, shadow detail set to low, textures set to medium.
Antiasing whatever it is, I have set to off.

Vertical sync I have off, rag doll physics I have on because I think those are the minion death effects.

That's all I can think off.

Basically

#1 Make sure your laptop is on high performance
#2 Make sure nothing is running in the background in task manager that is running at a high %
#3 Lower your resolution and mess with the settings on smite, lower them, ect.
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by Greenevers » September 21, 2014 11:01am | Report
I keep my resolution at 1600 X 900 pixels. Could you be more descriptive by "lag" ? It doesn't have to be caused by your PC, you know. Since you have decent specs which should be able to run SMITE at a constant 30 fps or higher.

Lag spikes, constant bad frames, running into walls, glitching, etc. Some of this can be caused by connectivity issues, internal malfuctions, or a bad processor. Do other games also lag or is it just a problem with SMITE?
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by Mystikk » September 21, 2014 6:23pm | Report
ICEN wrote:

Well I am playing on a HP laptop which is my brothers and I think it was around $400.
My laptop was more expensive then that and it cannot run smite worth ****.

I am basically saying, just because you spend more money on a laptop doesn't mean its going to be better unless the actual parts inside are better.

Anyways, there is one BIG difference that will make smite run 1000x better if you didn't know.

When I was first on a laptop I didn't know about this, then I realized I could do this...

Look for the battery power icon, usually its in the bottom right corner of your screen. Its the icon that shows how much battery power you have left. Click on it, it should let you switch between a normal/energy efficient setting and the other option should say something like "High Performance".

So yea, on a few laptops I noticed once you put your laptop on high performance it raises your fps and allows you to play smite, if you don't have it on high performance its a bit slower, harder to play.

If you already did that...

Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete > Go into Task Manager

Then go under the tab that says "Processes"

Look at the % of everything running on your laptop, it will show everything running in the background and how much % its taking up. Normally nothing should be above 1% and 1% is kind of pushing it. Usually everything is at like 0% or 0.2%

If you see a something that is taking up like 9% Cpu then that means that is slowing your game down, and when it stops or you close it, it will make smite run better. I can tell, because sometimes I had **** running in the background and I had to go into task manager to see if something was running in the background and sure enough some ******ed thing would be at like 9% running and I would have to close it.

On top of this, Lower the "RESOLUTION" 1024x768 is what mine is set too, I have it on full screen, its not completely full screen because there are two black bars on the side, BUT it makes smite easier to run and I am around 28-30fps when in battle and my fps is above 30fps all the time when not in battle just standing still, ect.

If I change my resolution to something else higher It takes away like 3-6fps maybe even a bit more.

All of these options are found at the top LEFT when you load up smite and are logged in.

I have world detail set to Low, shadow detail set to low, textures set to medium.
Antiasing whatever it is, I have set to off.

Vertical sync I have off, rag doll physics I have on because I think those are the minion death effects.

That's all I can think off.

Basically

#1 Make sure your laptop is on high performance
#2 Make sure nothing is running in the background in task manager that is running at a high %
#3 Lower your resolution and mess with the settings on smite, lower them, ect.

Oh trust me, I understand that just because a computer is more expensive doesn't mean it's going to be better - thus why I aimed solely for components that were better than what I already had, which I obtained with this new computer. But on the topic of CPU operation percentage, I noticed it spiked unbelievably high when it came to running smite its self in full screen - to about 30% CPU usage if I remember right - which I know is atrocious. I'm thinking that I may be stuck with a motherboard problem here, but I'll be making a point to monitor that over the coming days or weeks.

My laptop is always set onto high performance in power settings, as I have it connected to its power source 99% of the time. I also installed a program to help switch my computer to "gaming mode" to divert most of its power to running SMITE, so hopefully this will at least give me a little extra hand - it seems to have helped a bit from what I saw last night.

But in terms of res and details - I had everything on the lowest setting with my res matching yours, though at full screen my computer seemed not to want to handle it for whatever reason - though this was before I installed the program I mentioned prior.

Greenevers wrote:

I keep my resolution at 1600 X 900 pixels. Could you be more descriptive by "lag" ? It doesn't have to be caused by your PC, you know. Since you have decent specs which should be able to run SMITE at a constant 30 fps or higher.

Lag spikes, constant bad frames, running into walls, glitching, etc. Some of this can be caused by connectivity issues, internal malfuctions, or a bad processor. Do other games also lag or is it just a problem with SMITE?


To elaborate on what I meant when I said lag: basically jumpy graphics even on the home screen were the biggest thing I noticed when I attempted full screen, but I noticed that I also had a lot of this whenever in the game lobby, though it was a lot more severe, even to a point of a few seconds of things suddenly zipping from one thing to another without warning.

I stay in a room with consistently strong connectivity to the internet, so I'm thinking I may be able to rule that one out. I'm not past thinking it could be internal malfunctions... I've yet to play other games on this laptop yet, but I'll be sure to give it a try as soon as I can and update when possible on that.
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Permalink | Quote | +Rep by festive1 » September 22, 2014 4:52pm | Report
This is really weird, all of your specs seem to be quite good. The only thing I've noticed is that an 2GB Radeon HD 8670M is a low level Graphics card compared to an AMD A10-5650M 2.5GHz and 16GB ram (DDR3 I'm assuming) Often with computers, If most of the parts are high-end, and one or two are lower end, the computer's high end parts will only run at the level of the low parts, because the low end parts can't keep up with them. Saying this, 2GB Radeon HD 8670M isn't a bad card, its just not the best.
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