Why does my friend get near X2 FPS playing StarCraft? We have the same lapt

[Stephen Riley]

I'm a big StarCraft 2 player, but I'm getting TERRIBLE frame rates. Quite often I'll see drops all the way down to a consistent 3-5FPS. Meanwhile, my friend uses a near identical laptop, the only difference is I have an extra 4GB of RAM.

Specs are:

MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1

Intel Core i5 520M @ 2.40GHz

8.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 532MHz (7-7-7-20)

Intel® HD Graphics

My ThinkPad is definitely not meant for gaming, but it's enough to do the job well on low settings. How can I boost my frames per second back to a playable state?

[Lighthalzen]

Maybe you need to turn off running "Balance" mode under Power Option to "Performance"?

[Stephen Riley]

Maybe you need to turn off running "Balance" mode under Power Option to "Performance"?

Nope, already on Maximum Performance :/

[Ci7]

have you installed latest updates (specifically drivers ) ?

perhaps you friend machine are updated, and you are missing some critical update?

[+virtorio MVC]

- Make sure you're using the latest drivers

- Double check in the game settings that something isn't enabled that might drag down performance on that fairly low end graphics chip

- Make sure you're not running something in the background that is using a lot of RAM (as the RAM available for the graphics is dynamically allocated from the system memory as required), although with that amount of RAM it shouldn't be a problem

[Stephen Riley]

My framerate cap in variables.txt was set as 30. Fixed.