I have been using this laptop for half a year or so, and had no problems. I mainly was gaming and used a HD TV via HDMI and everything went smooth. Recently i had to go back to my old monitor LG w1943 which does not have a hdmi. So i used the acer vga adapter that was provided, and most of my games FPS dropped to 20 or so... The worst thing is when i unplug it, the FPS doesn't increase. For example i used to play league of legends with very high and it was running on about 45-50fps via hdmi to my HD TV, but when i plugged the monitor it dropped to 20-30. And same happened with other games. Tried updating drivers, and i updated inel hd graphic card drivers, but it not help. I know that the monitor does not have drivers for windows 8. But the problem is, that when i unplug it, the fps does not rise.