Huge Amounts of Lag

[Lawsy139]

Hey everyone,

A couple of months ago my old laptop started lagging really badly on Mx sim. The game was unplayable even with high fps settings. I had to turn my graphics down so low that i couldn't really ride because the ground looked so weird. It was my school laptop and I'd just installed a tonne of programs on it, so it only had about 50 gbs of space left on the hard drive, so i figured it was that.

However, i got a new laptop for personal use a few days ago. The specs are as follows:
i7-3537U CPU @ 2.00GHz 2.50 GHz
8 gbs of ram
Nvidia 740m graphics, turned all the way to performance.
1 tb hard drive. It only has firefox, windows, office and sim installed.

I don't remember my schools specs, but this new computer is much, much better.

Anyway, I installed the game a few days ago and the game was running at good fps at compatibility settings, which i was happy with. Today, i loaded up the game with the exact same settings, track and gear, and it was unplayable again. Compatibility mode looked like was watching a slide show and i was still lagging really badly on high fps settings. This was the same thing that happened to my school laptop.

Lag shouldn't be a problem, since my friends at school with the same, school laptops can play on the same tracks, with the same gear, at high detail settings with no lag.

Can anyone figure out way I am getting this terrible lag?

Thanks.

[Wahlamt]

Install the latest snapshot, the 1st of May one. Does it help restart? Sometimes if I tab out of the game, I get fps lag. But restarting the game usually helps.

[jlv]

Probably your graphics driver. Sounds like you're getting either software rendering or it's using the integrated graphics instead of the Nvidia GPU. Try installing the driver from Nvidia's site and make sure your laptop is plugged in and has the power saving setting on high performance.