<r> Yup, pretty decent for a mid-range gaming laptop. Found one online for 1.349€ and they deliver on Sundays. I used to build my own rigs too but I prefer the portability of laptops now. Downside is the lack of upgrading possibilities, price and lower performance.<br/>
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<t> Yeah, it was a pretty crappy laptop, the Dell forums are filled with people having problems with it: disappearing IC, games not using Geforce, boost-mode not initializing after unplugging and replugging, locked bios,... It was on sale when I bought it and it ran most games decent after some ...

<t> Thanks zakblood. Unfortunately Dell has blocked most settings in the BIOS. I've tried installing an unlocked BIOS but bricked my laptop (black screen, doesn't even get past POST). I'm looking at a replacement right now with a dedicated GPU to get rid of this Optimus-integrated-GPU-crap. Probably ...

<r> Yeah, that's my laptop. Those issues are resolved with the latest BIOS update. I have zero problems with other, similar, games: Europa Universalis 4, Crusader Kings II, Hearts of Iron III, Victoria II, Civ V, ... all work great. Just tried Civil War II (bought it a couple of weeks ago), same ...

<t> My laptop is always plugged in while gaming. I assigned Nvidia as default GPU, made a profile for EAW.exe (with nvidia as default GPU), started EAW from the game directory with the context menu "Run with graphics processor" -> "High performance NVIDIA Processor", ... to no avail. <br/>
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Thanks for the swift reply
Unfortunately it doesn't work, EAW still doesn't want to use my card. I've included a screencap of my processor and GPU use during gameplay. One core is maxed out and my GPU is idle.

I've included my Diag-file.

I'm having serious performance issues with this game. The map lags, especially when zoomed out. After some investigation I discovered this game only uses a single core and doesn't use my NVidia card at all. Was this a design decision or have I missed a setting?