Low FPS In General

[TearfulDevil]

While its not something I notice particularly, I've been made aware apparently my fps is low in comparison to the hardware I have?

I run Warframe off of a gaming laptop, which has the 6 GB NVIDIA 1060 GPU, a i7-7700HQ CPU, 16 GB of ram, and a 120 HZ 1080p screen, easily meeting the sytem requirements.

Based on what I've been able to find online, people with comparative hardware, both custom built and laptops with basically the same specs, have been getting FPS consistently in the 70s or higher, while using all High settings. For my part, while using the reccomend settings in the Nvidia Geforce experience app (mostly High/maxed, a couple things on medium), I get about 45-60 fps while in my orbiter, and about 35-45 while on missions. If I lower my settings to the absolute minimum, i get high 70s (sometimes higher, depending on where i look, how much i'm moving, etc) in my orbiter, and 60ish on missions.

To try and improve my FPS, I've followed all the recommended steps; verified and optimized my cache, made sure all my drivers are up to date, switched back and forth between DirectX 10 and 11, made sure I have minimal programs and performances running in the background (I start the game with 0-1% other GPU use, and 18~ish% CPU use), and checked the heat of my computer (it seems to be okay, based on what I've looked up). There doesn't seem to be any wierd spikes in CPU/GPU usage or temperature.

Is there any other things I can and/or should try to do? Its not a huge issue for me, I previously played warframe on a computer that didn't actually meet the min specs (the CPU wasn't the worse, but it it ha dno real GPU) and was used to really terrible FPS even with absolutely minimum settings, and a low resolution (which was how i had to play most games), so getting an FPS consistently above 30 is easily playable, but if I'm not getting the performance I could be getting, than I'd like to do so.

[taiiat]

it sounds like your Notebook is using your iGPU instead of your dedicated GPU. in the Nvidia Control Panel you can force games to use the dedicated GPU.
that sounds like what's going on here.

here's a visual aid i found somewhere on the internet, since i don't have a Notebook with a dual GPU in order to be able to show it to you myself.

[TearfulDevil]

It was already using that setting, it was one of the first things i checked.

[TearfulDevil]

Well, actually, I checked the specific setting for the Warframe exe, not the global setting, I guess I can see if that makes a difference.

Edit: It does not.

[TearfulDevil]

Okay, so after going through a bunch of performance testing software, and despairing at the apparently terrible condition of my laptop, I realized I had it set on ECO power mode. Oops.

That said, while changing it onto one the power modes meant for actually playing video games more advanced than Farmville make the computer performance metrics much higher, it doesn't actually seem to improved how it performs in Warframe, so I'm at a loss here.

Edit: Scratch that, it works now? Steady 110+ fps (just below my refresh rate of 120) in my orbiter? 🤔

Edit 2: and now its S#&$ again?

Edit 3: Restarted, fine again. I give up lol