GT 540M failing. Please help.

Hi all

I'm facing this here odd problem on my new laptop. I have tried everything and desperately needs your help.

It's an ASUS X93SV (K93SV), I5-2410m, GT 540M 1GB, 8GB Ram, HM65 express chipset, Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium.

When I run 3dMark06, Dirt1, Dirt2, Dirt3, etc. I get too few FPS. The system seems to be using the Nvidia Card, but FPS's tells it doesn't happen.

From review of similar systems, I can see that with an I5-2410m - GT 540M laptop, you should get around 7.800 in 3dMark 06.
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But I'm getting around 4200
The built in demo in both Dirt 2 and Dirt 3 gives me around 12 fps (fairly independent on settings, even "Low") where reviews says much more frames
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Intel Graphics driver version is: 8.15.10.2361
I have tried Nvidia drivers:
From Asus: 268.39
From Nvidia: 270.61, 275.33 and now also 280.26. All without working.

I have tried on automatic settings in Nvidia Control Panel -> Doesn't give correct FPS's
I have tried on setting Nvidia Processor for 3Dmark and Dirt -> Doesn't give correct FPS's
I have tried setting Nvidia Processor as Globally Preferred graphics processor -> Doesn't give correct FPS's.
And I have tried all the above Nvidia driver versions.

The very odd thing is, that I can get the notificiation icon for which graphics processor used, to show that it is using Nvidia (but with no extra FPS's). Also in the benchmark result folder for Dirt2 and 3, the "hardware_settings_info.xml" file says it runs the GT 540M. But again with very few FPS's.

So, the system seems to be responding that it uses the GT 540M card, but it actually doesn't.

- What the freak could be causing this problem??

I'm getting desperate.

The combination of motherboard, I5-2410M, GT 540M with Optimus have been working as you can see from the reviews.

I have seen a few discussion similar problems but not many. Could it be an Asus specific problem?

I think I have the Intel chipset drivers needed, but if someone could specify which ones are needed it would be nice.

Could it be Asus Bloatware that came with the laptop that mess the system up?

Please please help. I bought the rig also for gaming.

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From hardware_setings_info.xml from Dirt 3
<graphics_card rating="2" name="NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M" memory="4065" native_height="1080" native_width='1920' ps_shader="3_0" vs_shader="3_0" deviceid='0x0DF4' vendorid='0x10DE'>

 

I have a very similar system to yours and I have similar issues. Any help with this would be great.

 

And you're on an Asus system also.

I would of course like to hear what fixes this, but if others face the same problem it's a good idea to state hardware configuration, like 408Cali, so we can see if there's a trend.

 

So my system us running beautifully now. I changed my power settings to performance from entertainment and the graphics card is now running like a champ. MW2 on high, minecraft far render distance 120 fps. I'm good now.

 

Hi
I'm on High Performance all ready, and still have problems...

 

Can you use HWmonitor and give some temp and clock information. It might be that the card is throttling down or some other problem.