Official Clevo X170KM-G Thread

[cedr1k]

10 hours ago, strijrator said:

Hi @cedr1k

 

Since you have a bios from XMG are you installing your drivers from them rather than HIDevolution?

 

Maybe there are issues with Windows or drivers that would require a reinstall?

 

Also I am guessing that when you initially ran timespy, you had 32gb in dual channel. Your new lower score is with the 16gb single stick right?

 

Is this behavior only on Apex Legends or other games too?

To be honest those results were also very bad even with 32GB of RAM, but maybe it might effect results a little bit. I checked whether reducing the CPU clock speed affects performance in other games in the same way. In Arc Raiders, FPS actually drop when the clock speed is reduced, so it seems the problem is strictly with the game engine used in Apex Legends. The AI told me that Apex Legends is very sensitive to jitter and frametimes. This causes noticeable FPS drops at higher CPU clock speeds.I might try downgrading my drivers and BIOS to an older version in the future, but this is a very strange problem that probably only occurs in laptops.

 

Attached is a screenshot from Arc Raiders at 1.9Ghz and 4.4Ghz. You can see the correct performance increase after increasing the CPU clocks, unlike Apex Legends.

[cedr1k]

5 hours ago, kela-slk said:

check in Bios settings Overclocking features enable or disable

Yes it was enabled

[JuliusCesare]

3 hours ago, Teo said:

@JuliusCesare I see , so couldn’t be that your memory are getting bad over time? Or the ram pins are dirty? Have you tried in your known good slot the others memories?

I hope is not the motherboard getting bad, have you seen any sign of corrosion or mold or white build spots (from water or moisture) near the ram slots? Or anywhere in the motherboard?

 

Have you tried to do a hard reset or load your BIOS configuration to default on your laptop and see if that helps?

@Teo I have not seen any signs of corrosion on the board. I have never had any fluid spills issues with the system. Each of the 4 RAM sticks work fine in slot 3, but the system never completes POST when any or more of the other slots has a stick of RAM in it. 

 

Yes, I have done a BIOS reset multiple times. I also load defaults every time after a BIOS flash. I have read somewhere up this thread that Fn+D or Alt+D at boot might reset NVRAM. I did not observe anything resembling a reset of NVRAM after trying the key combination at boot.

 

While I do the BIOS resets, it is possible that there is an operation I'm unaware of involving NVRAM. I do not know much about NVRAM except that if I disconnect all power (power cord, regular battery, and the internal CMOS battery) and let the system sit for at least 30 minutes to discharge capacitors, then NVRAM should be cleared. 

 

It is possible I could be misinformed about resetting NVRAM and I'm open to other ideas.

 

 

[strijrator]

5 hours ago, cedr1k said:

To be honest those results were also very bad even with 32GB of RAM, but maybe it might effect results a little bit. I checked whether reducing the CPU clock speed affects performance in other games in the same way. In Arc Raiders, FPS actually drop when the clock speed is reduced, so it seems the problem is strictly with the game engine used in Apex Legends. The AI told me that Apex Legends is very sensitive to jitter and frametimes. This causes noticeable FPS drops at higher CPU clock speeds.I might try downgrading my drivers and BIOS to an older version in the future, but this is a very strange problem that probably only occurs in laptops.

 

Attached is a screenshot from Arc Raiders at 1.9Ghz and 4.4Ghz. You can see the correct performance increase after increasing the CPU clocks, unlike Apex Legends.

Hey

 

Well it’s a good thing this issue is not happening in other games. Maybe it’s just a problem with Apex. Are you using the latest nvidia graphics driver?

 

 It may be worth downgrading bios or drivers so try it if the issue persists.

[kela-slk]

6 hours ago, cedr1k said:

Yes it was enabled

Try disable and test again. Performance mode in ccc or entertainment. Bios setup default.