I need help here. Just got my new laptop, upgraded from something with a 2nd gen i3 with integrated graphics. Now, my new system can't seem to match the performance from my older laptop while on integrated graphics, and even sometimes when using my 970m for a browser. For example, when playing 60fps YouTube videos with HD Graphics, it seems to lock itself at 30 fps and stutters more while on full-screen (but stays at 60fps when I'm not fullscreen). Switching to my 970m makes it better, but my old laptop could even handle that no problem... hell my phone can even do that. Same goes for Agar.io: HORRIBLE performance on integrated graphics, runs fine on my old laptop and on my 970m.
The problem seems to lie in Firefox and Chrome, IE plays well with my integrated graphics. The smoothscroll extension on Chrome worked on every computer I ever used without a problem, and now it stutters and lags like hell on my new machine. Same applies to two finger scrolling with the trackpad, great performance in IE, barely usable in Chrome, usable in Firefox.
Is this a problem with the browsers or Nvidia's Optimus technology? Or is it something else? I'm really confused here...
I have an Alienware 15 with an i7 4710HQ, 970m and 16GB RAM, on Windows 8.1.
The problem seems to lie in Firefox and Chrome, IE plays well with my integrated graphics. The smoothscroll extension on Chrome worked on every computer I ever used without a problem, and now it stutters and lags like hell on my new machine. Same applies to two finger scrolling with the trackpad, great performance in IE, barely usable in Chrome, usable in Firefox.
Is this a problem with the browsers or Nvidia's Optimus technology? Or is it something else? I'm really confused here...
I have an Alienware 15 with an i7 4710HQ, 970m and 16GB RAM, on Windows 8.1.
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