Extreme performance issues

[baizen]

So my laptop can consistently get 50-60 FPS in metro last light with very high graphics (with advanced PhysX off because I used AMD), but I fail to even get consistent 20 fps in EU4 even with pretty much everything set to the minimum. I don't want to think the game has poor optimization with AMD mobile chips. Any thoughts?

My PC specs:
Intel core i7 3630QM 2.4GHz
8gb ram
AMD Radeon HD 8970M

 

[sgt.stickybomb]

I have an AMD chip as well, and almost all PDX games (except HOI3) run poorly

 

[Artyom87]

this probably wont help you, but it greatly helped me.

Basically my laptop was having 40-50% disc usage even when idle for some reason even when its brand new (windows 8.1 problem)

so I did this fix http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2027511/windows-disk-usage-100-problem.html and everything got better