Dedicated GPU and other issues...

Hello, I am quite new with BeamNG Drive and this forum. I play on this computer: DELL XPS, 4 GB RAM, Intel i5 and (I think) Intel GPU.

As you can see, I this is at the lowest recommendations for a computer to play BeamNG Drive. I have around 13 FPS with one vehicle on a normal map, about 9 FPS with two vehicles. The highest FPS I had was 33 FPS in the Grid Map. This is horrible for playing games !

Is there anything I can do to improve the FPS while having fair graphics? Also, at the beginning of the game, a popup tells me to use dedicated GPU instead of the Intel GPU. (I don't a graphics card, I use the built in one). How can I use dedicated GPU and what is it?

Thanks in advance!

 

1) what xps is it, there are many Dell XPS's
2) the game can't run on a CPU gpu, unless you do have an actual gpu, chances are you can't run the game

 

Set detail level to lowest, then select detail level custom, have texture detail at normal or high, after that you can experiment with rest of the settings, because it is then up to you how much performance you are willing to loose vs visual quality, but that should give you good starting point.

Shaders and light quality keep lowest or low, with iGPU it is not really possible to use those fancier versions, but textures you can keep quite high without too much impact to performance and that gives lot of visual quality.

Run game in borderless window at lower resolution, that retains some of visual quality, but you will have bit smaller game window than your screen, experiment for best possible compromise.

Keep shadows off and keep dynamic reflections off, those are going to kill your CPU in addition to your iGPU.

That is pretty much what I did when I had only iGPU and game was quite enjoyable as FPS was so high, when you are driving fast you can't see minor details anyway, so smooth gameplay is more important goal, in my opinion at least.

 

I have the Dell XPS 13 9343. In the "device specifications", at Processor, it tells me: Intel Core i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.19GHz.
So I guess that's a CPU gpu. Btw, it has a 64-bit processor.
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Thanks for the help. I got a little bit of more FPS but I already had all the graphics on lowest. I think the resolution made the biggest difference.

 

Next thing you can do is to edit map a bit, there is thing called visual distance, reducing that will get game run faster, but it causes scenery to clip from visible distance, or then you could add fog, but too much fog gets annoying fast.

Anyway, instructions:
When level is loaded, hit F11 key to open the map editor, in box labeled filter type thelevelinfo exactly like that and hit enter, you should see this:


Note on right there are numbers, one is visibleDistance, type 2000 there and hit enter, then click that play button at top of the screen, usually that will give quite nice FPS boost, without becoming too noticeable, you will see scenery drawn at distance at times, but it is compromise between that and fps. On many maps that can double your FPS.

Write down original value just in case and don't save the changes, you have to change value every time when you load a map, but when not saving, things don't get messed up.

I did play game with i3-6100 without dedicated GPU and I did manage to get 60fps most of the time, however you have a laptop, that CPU is going to be bit slower.

Also make sure that in Windows control panel, under power options you have maximum performance selected and that your laptop is plugged in.