Low Performance

[vraa]

I have a Thinkpad T410s with the discrete Nvidia nvs 3100m. It sucks, I have heard installing the 310m driver can improve performance, how can I do this?

I have updated my notebook drivers to the latest nVidia 270.51 verde driver, but performance still sucks.

I don't know what I did but in the last week performance dropped massively, I can't even run my old games (eve) which worked fine before

[Colonel O'Neill]

If it used to work fine, then you did something wrong elsewhere. If you have the discrete (regular switchable, non-Optimus one) then you need the Lenovo provided drivers.

Try restoring to a restore point from before the issue.

[vraa]

It is the switchable, but I disabled the Optimus, Intel sucks

I am still playing around with the drivers, not sure why they are so slow
The Lenovo provided drivers are no good

[Colonel O'Neill]

I don't think the drivers are to blame unless something happened to them. You said it used to work fine. Can you System Restore to a time when it worked?

I also think you're missing the point of Optimus. You're not supposed to be using the Intel one for demanding applications.

[vraa]

But even Windows aero is too demanding

Intel GPU is an oxymoron

[Colonel O'Neill]

Uh... Aero should run more than fine on the integrated GPU. Aero runs fine on a 945 chipset.

You're doing something wrong.

Try restoring to when it worked.

[vraa]

I have disabled system restore

I will format tonight