Why Am I Lagging?

A large amount of the optimisation that could be done would have to be done in the engine itself which is 3rd party (torque 3d, you can download the engine for yourself and make games with it on your own if you want). So it would be down to torque3d to be doing any optimising, and its not happening so far.

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Looks like its not far off it

 

I get 35-45 fps on my iMac, which has a AMD Radeon 6770M.
Also, I'm getting a Fujitsu LH772 laptop with a GeForce GT 640 LE, so can it run BeamNG smoothly? By smooth I mean 20-30 fps on medium.

 

That laptop won't run BeamNG at all. I have a GeForce 650M and I'm lucky to hit 20 fps on the lowest settings while running Game Booster. I also use an i7 with 12 GB RAM.

 

Really? Are you sure it's not using the integrated GPU assuming your laptop has one?

 

I'm 100% sure.

 

a Laptop graphics card is built so it can work on limited power and its configured so it wont drain the battery in 10 seconds, a Desktop's Graphics card isnt limited in power usage so it can be as powerful as it can be..

 

Ya could always overclock it as long as you have sufficient cooling. My laptop's GPU core and VRAM are overclocked by around 200-300MHz each and it usually doesn't go above 160f.

 

wow awful specs

 

It's not worth shortening the life of my laptop to MAYBE play the game at decent fps on lowest settings. I'd rather get a custom desktop.

 

Nah, I wouldnt bother overclocking a laptop either. Some block overclocking entirely and rightly so. overclocking a desktop, no probs, can get some decent cooling on there.

 

I think it's worth it. I once bought a new motherboard for my old D630 and overclocked the GPU. (Played a lot of MW1 on that thing because at the time it didn't like the GPU in my desktop for some reason.) It lasted literally 4 months before kabooming. It never overheated, but that GPU was known to fail after a year or two. Yeah, but in a normal laptop without any issues like that or overheating, you'd probably get a new laptop or something else would break before the GPU goes bad from overclocking.

 

Yeah, right. If I told mg dad my laptop died because I over-clocked it he would kill me. Considering how much it costs there will be no OC'ing for me.

 

I only OC my graphics card, my processor is so old considering my pc is from June 2008 or Jun08 as I called it, but with the new 5770 I have I wont push that because current clocks at STOCK its hugely powerful as is..

 

I `d also have a nvidia GT 650 and lag

 

Turn off ALL POST PROCESSING...that will really kick the frame rate up I mean Post processing is okay if you have like a Nvidia GTX780 or the more bonkers Titan or even a HD7990 they have the POWER to run that stuff no sweat the lesser cards do not have that power to run that..

 

My OC'ed 560Ti does 60 on grid if I'm not looking at the stupid light thing that kills fps. If that's in my view, it acts limited to 30. If I'm close to it, I go down to 12-15 haha. I run 30fps on any other map (for some reason it acts as if it's limited which is a weird concept to me, if someone could explain that, it would be lovely). I am planning on upgrading this holiday season to either a 4GB 770 ($400) or a R9 280x ($310). R9 beats it most of the time, but I want something like Nvidia Shadowplay. Any AMD/ATI card screen capturing software that doesn't kill fps? I'd love to make videos, but I cannot with my current card.

 

For those who have a laptop with an AMD or Nvidia card, the M on the end (ex. 650m) means mobile. Because they are mobile, they have far reduced performance to keep the laptop from frying and running out of battery life.

So a 650M is not equivalent to a GTX 650, rather more like a GT 610.

 

My 650ti boost 2gb overclocked gets 60-70 fps in grid on max settings. Your best bet for recording is to lower the settings for more fps and use fraps. Maybe try overclocking your card a bit.

 

The fact that it seems to limit to 30, 15 and 12 suggests you have VSync enabled which limits your FPS to a factor of your monitors refresh rate (so 32 not being a factor of 60 isn't allowed and it will limit to 30 instead).

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or MSI afterburner as a free alternative (with no watermarking etc either) which seems to play very nicely with my EVGA GTX460.

 

I have a 650m with GDDR5 memory and I can run BeamNG at 40 fps which is perfectly reasonable for a driving game, a GTX 650 should be able to hit 60+ fps, depending on your CPU of course.