New laptop and frame rate terrible - suggestions?

[Blue Lava]

This is what I got

2019 HP 17 17.3 Inch HD+ Business Laptop (8th Intel Dual Core i3-8130U (Beat i5-7200U) 8GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB M.2 SSD) DVD-RW, Ethernet, HDMI, WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, Gold, Windows 10 64-bit

 

Screen Resolution  1600x900

Max Screen Resolution  1600 x 900

Processor  2.2 GHz Core i3 8130U

RAM  8 GB SO-DIMM DDR4

Hard Drive  512 GB SSD

Graphics Coprocessor  Integrated Intel UHD Graphics

 

On COH settings,

I've dropped the resolution settings to 1366x768

refresh rate = 60

Lowered Gamma to 80%

Graphics quality to Minimum 

 

And I still lag just flying thru traffic in P.I. or while attacking small mobs of 3-4 

Am I just out of luck because of the graphics card?

Side note --- hope this is the right place to post this question

 

 

 

[biostem]

It could be due to a few factors.  First, many of the hud/menu overlays are actually quite taxing - try disabling such labels unless its your selected target or on mouse-over.  Second, reduce the world draw distance - I've noticed that sometimes the game tries to render objects that are quite far away, and it can also be quite taxing.  PI is rather enemy-dense, so maybe trying to draw and track all of them is to blame.  Third, CoH seems to sometimes have an issue with Phys-X/debris objects - try dropping those all the way down.  Hope some of this helps.  Cheers!

Edited November 21, 2019 by biostem

[Lost Ninja]

Business laptop with no discreet graphics card.

[Xeres]

If you're playing full screen windowed try switching to straight full screen.  Also the two things that affect framerate the most are anti-aliasing and shadows.  Decrease those (if you're able) until the game is more playable.

[AWOL]

Intel Integrated Graphics doesn't seam to play well with City of Heroes.  That's my experience with my laptop.  If I was buying a new one I'd probably get an Acer Nitro with AMD graphics.

 

https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/series/nitro5

 

People report these playing the game very well.  They have some modestly priced options.

Edited November 21, 2019 by AWOL

[Blue Lava]

Many thanks to all for the great suggestions... seems to be running a little bit smoothly now.. not great, and Im sure would be about 3fps in a full rikti raid but it'll do for teaming

🙂

[microc]

in the driver and bios setting see if the video chipset has a power saving mode if it on you might not be getting the full power of the intel gpu. also check to see if there any biso updates for the laptop and see if in the driver or bios you can change the video ram setting. as your laptop has onboard ram it going to share system ram with video ram. if your going to keep the laptop try adding 8g more of ram see if that helps.