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Why is my Lenovo Y500 not running Skyrim well?

One reason i purchased this laptop is because it's acclaimed as being an excellent Gaming laptop, and that's what I wanted. So, as I tried to run Skyrim today, It ran HORRIBLE. I had it set on low-high settings, and it still was terrible. I see all these videos of people playing it on high settings, but I can't run it good on LOW.... I am extremely angry because I may have just invested $800+ into something that doesn't do what I want it too, and I feel like a wasteful fool. But, come on! With all the video evidence out there, I must not be doing something right. Any insight or thoughts?

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  • 8 years ago

    The Lenovo Y500 is more of an iPad or Netbook, than it is a Gaming Laptop.

    NVIDIA GeForce GT650M 2GB? If so, you need to set the graphics settings on the dedicated GPU chip. These Lenovos come pre-set to save power and graphic chip usage, so resetting this should get you going.

    This shows its performance rating, which is not super great, but should be good: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/notebook-gpus/gefo...

    Cannot seem to find settings for the Y500. Closest thing we can find is the Y570 here: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.p...

    EDIT:

    If this doesn't help, could you post your hardware specs for this Lenovo? This can help us help you better.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Manage 3D Settings

    http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.p...

    Just browse to the Skyrim.exe file.

    Then Select the High Performance Nvidia Processor.

    Click Apply

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