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Acer SFX14-41G-R2TD bad in game performance

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Tinkerer

edited October 2021 in Swift and Spin Series
Hi all, just bought the Acer Swift X. My country specification is a bit low, with only 5500U and vanilla 3050. I have one nagging question about the laptop. 

I ran 3Dmark and got this score, 3687. It says so on the screen I can run Battlefield V at ultra setting at around 55 fps. Thing is I also have Battlefield V, and the game is almost unplayable with plenty of stuttering, frame skips, and that's at low setting, with an average of 40-45 fps. Is there a configuration I have to tinker first? I already set dedicated 3050 GPU to run the game on Nvidia display setting.

Any help is much appreciated. I especially love the form factor, really want to keep the laptop for awhile. 



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  • Member Posts: 14

    Tinkerer

    edited October 2021
    How long did you play Battlefield 5?
    From my exerience on dozens of systems it takes a while for the game to run smooth. Play a while till it has loaded every sound, texture, etc.

    Also make sure you're not using higher Settings that need more than 4GB Vram. That would cause severe framedrops.
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    Hi @ Midiamp
    Could you please tell me model name of unit 

  • Member Posts: 12

    Tinkerer


    Hi @ Midiamp
    Could you please tell me model name of unit 

    Model name SFX14-41G-R2TD, or model no N20C12. Market of purchase, Indonesia. Ryzen 5500U, RTX 3050 40 watt, RAM 16GB, storage 512GB.

    hubwood said:
    How long did you play Battlefield 5?
    From my exerience on dozens of systems it takes a while for the game to run smooth. Play a while till it has loaded every sound, texture, etc.

    Also make sure you're not using higher Settings that need more than 4GB Vram. That would cause severe framedrops.

    15-20 minutes before I gave up from all the stuttering. The stutter/frame drops was just awful, maybe if it's stable I have no issue, but from getting 60 fps to 20-30 fps and jumping back again is not enjoyable at all. I updated all driver from Nvidia and AMD, but still the stutter/frame drops persists. On my previous laptop, MSI GF63 thin, Battlefield 5 works well managing 60 fps with occasional drops to 50 with 1% low to 30, but still manageable overall. My expectation with the Swift X I will have similar or slightly better experience considering it has 3050. Yes I know 3050 on the Swift X is low watt model, but so does the 1650 on my MSI GF63 Thin (max-q model).

    I'm never a visual junky, always put everything to low and turning off all the fancy effects. So that's why I'm perplexed at the laptop result. Just for reference, I play BF V ony my desktop with RTX2070 at only medium setting. 
  • ACE Posts: 35,857 Trailblazer
    Are you on Windows 10 or 11?
    Click on "Like" if you find my answer useful or click on "Yes" if it answers your question.
  • Member Posts: 12

    Tinkerer

    billsey said:
    Are you on Windows 10 or 11?
    Windows 10. I have narrowed down the issue to thermal throttling. Setting the aggressive fan curve helps but not until after 10 minutes of gaming the frame drops happens again. I use an active laptop cooler and it kind helps with the thermal and frame drops. Well, I wish Acer would give us ability to set the fan curve to max outside the built in values. I wouldn't mind for extra fan noise if it means I can reliably game on the laptop... Hey, it has 3050, the potential is there.
  • Member Posts: 14

    Tinkerer

    Midiamp said:
    Model name SFX14-41G-R2TD, or model no N20C12. Market of purchase, Indonesia. Ryzen 5500U, RTX 3050 40 watt, RAM 16GB, storage 512GB.


    15-20 minutes before I gave up from all the stuttering. The stutter/frame drops was just awful, maybe if it's stable I have no issue, but from getting 60 fps to 20-30 fps and jumping back again is not enjoyable at all. I updated all driver from Nvidia and AMD, but still the stutter/frame drops persists. On my previous laptop, MSI GF63 thin, Battlefield 5 works well managing 60 fps with occasional drops to 50 with 1% low to 30, but still manageable overall. My expectation with the Swift X I will have similar or slightly better experience considering it has 3050. Yes I know 3050 on the Swift X is low watt model, but so does the 1650 on my MSI GF63 Thin (max-q model).

    I'm never a visual junky, always put everything to low and turning off all the fancy effects. So that's why I'm perplexed at the laptop result. Just for reference, I play BF V ony my desktop with RTX2070 at only medium setting. 

    I've tested BF 5 with the Medium Preset.
    After playing for a while I got 75 FPS on average and 45FPS for the 1% Lows.

  • Member Posts: 14

    Tinkerer

    Midiamp said:
    Model name SFX14-41G-R2TD, or model no N20C12. Market of purchase, Indonesia. Ryzen 5500U, RTX 3050 40 watt, RAM 16GB, storage 512GB.


    15-20 minutes before I gave up from all the stuttering. The stutter/frame drops was just awful, maybe if it's stable I have no issue, but from getting 60 fps to 20-30 fps and jumping back again is not enjoyable at all. I updated all driver from Nvidia and AMD, but still the stutter/frame drops persists. On my previous laptop, MSI GF63 thin, Battlefield 5 works well managing 60 fps with occasional drops to 50 with 1% low to 30, but still manageable overall. My expectation with the Swift X I will have similar or slightly better experience considering it has 3050. Yes I know 3050 on the Swift X is low watt model, but so does the 1650 on my MSI GF63 Thin (max-q model).

    I'm never a visual junky, always put everything to low and turning off all the fancy effects. So that's why I'm perplexed at the laptop result. Just for reference, I play BF V ony my desktop with RTX2070 at only medium setting. 
    I will test BF 5 on my Model tonight. I will post the results here.
    I have the 5600U though. The rest seems identical.
    Which map did you test?

  • Member Posts: 14

    Tinkerer

    Midiamp said:
    Model name SFX14-41G-R2TD, or model no N20C12. Market of purchase, Indonesia. Ryzen 5500U, RTX 3050 40 watt, RAM 16GB, storage 512GB.


    15-20 minutes before I gave up from all the stuttering. The stutter/frame drops was just awful, maybe if it's stable I have no issue, but from getting 60 fps to 20-30 fps and jumping back again is not enjoyable at all. I updated all driver from Nvidia and AMD, but still the stutter/frame drops persists. On my previous laptop, MSI GF63 thin, Battlefield 5 works well managing 60 fps with occasional drops to 50 with 1% low to 30, but still manageable overall. My expectation with the Swift X I will have similar or slightly better experience considering it has 3050. Yes I know 3050 on the Swift X is low watt model, but so does the 1650 on my MSI GF63 Thin (max-q model).

    I'm never a visual junky, always put everything to low and turning off all the fancy effects. So that's why I'm perplexed at the laptop result. Just for reference, I play BF V ony my desktop with RTX2070 at only medium setting. 

    I've tested BF 5 with the Medium Preset.
    After playing for a while I got an average of 76 FPS and a 1% low of 46.
    So it was quite playable.
    I have the 5600U, but that shouldnt make such a big difference.
    Also I waited with benchmarking for a few minutes. As I said it takes a while....
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    Tinkerer

     hubwood said:

    I've tested BF 5 with the Medium Preset.
    After playing for a while I got an average of 76 FPS and a 1% low of 46.
    So it was quite playable.
    I have the 5600U, but that shouldnt make such a big difference.
    Also I waited with benchmarking for a few minutes. As I said it takes a while....
    Thanks, I've checked, 5500U vs 5600U is a bit different, 5500U is still lucienne (Zen 2) while the 5600U is Cezanne (Zen 3).

    On my system I noticed the frame drops happens when the clock speed lowers due to thermal throttling. I have HWinfo64 running in the background. Sigh... A bit of a downer. 
  • Member Posts: 12

    Tinkerer

     hubwood said:

    I've tested BF 5 with the Medium Preset.
    After playing for a while I got an average of 76 FPS and a 1% low of 46.
    So it was quite playable.
    I have the 5600U, but that shouldnt make such a big difference.
    Also I waited with benchmarking for a few minutes. As I said it takes a while....
    Thanks, I've checked, 5500U vs 5600U is a bit different, 5500U is still lucienne (Zen 2) while the 5600U is Cezanne (Zen 3).

    On my system I noticed the frame drops happens when the clock speed lowers due to thermal throttling. I have HWinfo64 running in the background. Sigh... A bit of a downer. 

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