This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/framework by /u/CorporateLegion on 2025-05-24 08:57:02+00:00.

Friendly tip tip to check your BIOS settings and double check you aren’t choking graphical performance by having memory set to 512MB. Pointless story to follow:

I got my FW13 with the Ryzen AI 340 and the hardware experience of putting it all together was lovely, and was a breath of fresh air after a decade old plus Lenovo y510p that I stubbornly kept on Win7. But I got immediate buyers regret when I was getting single digit performance in Brigador. BRIGADOR. A sprite based 2D game. Performance was lacklustre and embarassing compared to a desktop I made for my parents in 2013. I flailed around with distros, Proton versions, began to doubt my hardware purchase (I got a Team Group SSD and RAM) etc. But it was my VRAM setting in BIOS, which somehow I overlooked. I was inadvertently crippling my performance by having VRAM set to minimum. So, you know… change that if it applies to you, lol

Set it to 16 giga-nibbles and experience is now as I’d expect it. Playing undemanding games like I do on this machine I get max possible performance and on a power saver profile the fans lightly spool up. Non distracting at all. They get a bit louder on a performance profile, but they no longer sound like they’re trying to to compete with a Pratt and Whitney turbofan. I’m not trying to run Space Marine 2 or anything (I got a gaming system for that tier of game).

Running the laptop basically docked with Fedora KDE with an external monitor @ 1440p/165hz via a KVM and everything seems lovely now.