How to get 300 FPS on a 400$ Laptop.
41I took a midrange Gaming laptop (GTX 1050) and benchmarked some classics from 2010 and earlier! Will we crack the 300 FPS mark?
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Laptop:
ACER ASPIRE VX 15
Intel Core i5 7300 HQ @ 3,1 Ghz
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 (Laptop) 4GB
16 GB DDR4 Ram
128GB SSD + 1TB HDD
Windows 10
17" Full HD IPS Display
Games:
03:34 - Alan Wake
04:04 - Batman Arkham Asylum
04:27 - Bioshock
05:01 - Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
05:23 - Crysis
05:56 - Dragon Age: Origins
06:17 - GTA 4
06:58 - Half Life 2
07:24 - Just Cause 2
07:48 - Left4Dead
08:13 - Mirrors Edge
08:48 - Star Craft 2
09:15 - Torchlight
Because usually people want to know how the latest games will run on their Laptops, Pcs, Toasters, whatever... but when I recently looked at my steam library (I intended to check if I wanted play something from my pile of shame) I actually wondered how my midrange gaming laptop from 2016 would handle games that were released before or at the latest in 2010.
Which of these would reach over 60 / 100 / 200 or even more fps when maxed out in Full HD?
The Laptop I used for this video is an Acer Aspire VX 15 which has a NVIDIA GTX 1050 with 4GB, an Intel i5 7300hq quad core and 16 GB of DDR4 Ram. I would still consider this a midrange gaming laptop in Late 2018 as it's going to take a while for new Mobile Chips to be released.
Yes, I am aware that more than 60 FPS don't make much sense on a casual 60 Hz Laptop Display.
So Hush... We're just doing this for fun here! But seriosuly, feel free leave to a comment if you use a seperate gaming monitor for your gaming laptop!
All games we'll have a look at today were testet both at the absolut maximum Settings for each game @ 1080p and also at the lowest possible Settings @ 720p to get a feeling for the FPS range of each game.
By the way I didn't overclock the GPU for any of these tests.
And in my opinion many of them are still worth playing in 2018.
But sadly some of the games I wanted to test turned out to have non removable Frame Locks.
Like For example Assassins Creed 2, Fallout 3 or Trine 1. I really tried a lot of workarounds but I just couldn't get rid of the frame locks. By the way those 3 games all ran with stable 60 fps on 1080p and maximum Settings anyways. So thats why I didn't test those games.
Before we take a look at the games i also fired up the 2008 Benchmark
3d mark vantage and scored 23.100 points. Back then a GTX 280, one of NVIDIAs Top Modells back then scored only 13.500 and and even it's 2010 succesor the gtx 480 scored around 22.000 and
therefore a little less than our 2016-2018 midrange laptop.
The Horror Action Adventure Alan Wake from 2010 can, despite it's kinda boring level design, still look pretty neat when maxed out. On minimum Settings and 720p I scored an average of 140 fps. Not enough to fully benefit from a 144 Hz Monitor... but pretty close though.
On Maximum Settings 1080p I scored an average of 61 FPS. Perfectly fine for a 60Hz Monitor.
Batman Arkham Asylum
2009s Batman Arkham Asylum ran noticably faster and scored 217 FPS on average at the lowest settings and 720p while fully maxed out on Full HD we'd still see screen tearing 84 FPS on average.
We're getting closer to crack the 100 FPS.
Bioshock – 2007
Actually getting closer is not the right term as Bioshock from 2007 destroyed the FPS Meter by achieving an insane 265 FPS on average at FULL HD with maximum settings and a hilarious 375 FPS on 720p and lowest settings. By the way that means that if you'd limit the FPS at 60 this laptop would be so bored, the battery would probably last much much longer as usual...
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But Can it run crysis?
Well, to be honest I was a bit afraid that I wouldn't get 60 FPS on maximum Settings and Full HD. And oh boy was I right... Yes, you heard me. The pretty badly optimized Crysis from 2007! ran with dissapointing 42 FPS on Maximum. That's just Insane. Well at least I was able to get 147 FPS on average at lowest settings and 720p...
I didn't expect any other game than crysis to cause problems when hitting 60 FPS. But 2008s GTA 4 really made the laptop sweat on Max Settings and 1080p. I only achieved around 40-45 fps on average. Even on lowest settings we "only" saw an average of around 120 fps. The game's obviously not optimized very well! Even GTA 5 runs at 40-45 fps on a mix of very high and ultra.
And also with 120 fps on lowest settings while looking quite a bit better.
Blizzard is known to make games that run on everybodys PC. And Star Craft 2 from 2010 ain't no exception. The Average FPS in a 2 vs 2 game was 117 FPS on lowest settings @ 720p and 74 FPS on maximum settings @ 1080p. But there were some drops to the 40s in bigger fights...
The Diablo clone Torchlight 1 from 2009 ran well with 174 FPS on average with lowest settings @ 720p and around 125 FPS on Maximum Settings @ 1080p
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