myotgo, may I know the graphics setting for the NFS Most Wanted (the latest one right?) .

FPS Min: 14 to max 21 may not seem playable. Maybe u set at the ultra settings?

Thanks bro..and yes I noticed that the chinese review was tested on 1366 x 768 resolution.

That's why laa...because I plan to buy the Y500 and would like to play NFS Most Wanted with it. So, i'm afraid it cannot cope with the FULL HD Resolution even with the dual SLI GFX card.

Unless, I have to lower the resolution to 1600 x 900 or 1366 x 768

I thought I wanna share this video with you guys. Although it is not in English.

It shows SLI gaming capability


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KuPkWIAagY


This post has been edited by AmyDazz: Nov 30 2012, 10:52 AM

How much did you pay for it ?

Unfortunately, NFS Most Wanted does not support SLI as yet.

U can always refer to for games supported by SLI.

SLI-supported Games

ATTENTION TO LENOVO Y500 OWNERS AND POTENTIAL LENOVO Y500 OWNERS!!

I am glad that I bought the Lenovo Y500. I managed to play around with the laptop. I installed some NFS games (Hot Pursuit, Shift 1, and Shift 2) . I was quite satisfied with the FPS.

Everything was OK, with exception the brightness control is lost through the Fn key when I upgraded to the latest WHQL or Beta Nvidia Driver. But it's okay, I thought it could be fixed later, when Lenovo itself release its own Nvidia Driver.

But......not until last night.

My hard drive is 500GB and the drive C is more than 400GB and there is drive D (Lenovo) 20GB.

So, I thought why not shrink the drive C for the purpose of Windows 8 system and create a new larger partition to store my games, stuff, videos.

Then, I downloaded the EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition.

What I did was, shrink the drive C to 100GB, and create a new partition on the unallocated space (I think more than 300GB) on a new drive letter E: (since letter D is occupied by Lenovo).

So, the software asked the laptop to be restarted in order to complete the changes. I allowed it to restart and it booted with EaseUS partition progress.

In the middle of the process, the laptop suddenly restarted.

only to boot with this error ....




I got panicked, and tried press "Enter". And the screen proceeded to....




Now, I got really panicked. But then I thought, there is this Lenovo "One Key Recovery" . The button which situated next to the power input plug.

So, I pressed the button and I chose "System Recovery"...



But, it wasn't successful! In fact, it just proceed to the same previous 2 screenshots that I showed you.

At this point of time, you would know just how I felt


So, it was at 1.30 in the morning, I googled to find this solution

Solution


, albeit it may not be suitable for a beginner like me.

Lenovo One-Key Recovery and Partition Problem

And apparently, when I searched the Lenovo forum, look what I found --->>
It has been reported that if the user change the partition, the One-Key Recover feature becomes useless and in effect you won't be able to recover your system.

At this moment, I have no idea what to do. I have no guts to try with the solution above. It seems complicated and I scared more errors could arise.

So, guys, maybe I plan to send back the laptop to the reseller.

But the point is, To those who intends to repartition or make new partition in your Lenovo, please DO NOT DO SO, unless you are really sure what is the outcome will be

Anyhow, I'd appreciate if somebody could help me with this problem. I'm like in this kind of "bricked" situation for my laptop

sss2sssss <<---- thanks for your input. But, tomorrow morning I will send the laptop to the Lenovo Service Center. Hopefully, they can get my laptop fixed.

minzisme <<----- Yes, i tried the latest 310.64. But you will lose the brightness control Fn. The brightness will always be at maximum. It's okay during day time, but quite eye-sore during night.

As far as the game I have played are concerned...it can be said more smooth.

Actually, the benefit of the upgrade is that Nvidia will keep updating the SLI profile for newer games.
So, instead of using 1 GPU. Now, we can utilise both GPUs.

Listed from Nvidia website:

NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:

Alan Wake's American Nightmare – added
Borderlands 2 – added
Darksiders 2 – added
End of Nations - added
F1 2011 – updated
F1 2012 – added
Final Fantasy XIV – updated
Nexuiz - added
Orcs Must Die! 2 – added
PlanetSide 2 - updated
Saints Row: The Third – updated
Shogun 2: Total War – updated
Sleeping Dogs – updated
Spec Ops: The Line - added
The Secret World - updated
Torchlight II - added
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier - added
Tornado Force - added
Tribes: Ascend – updated

You can always check the release note accompanying the driver release.

But, the short-fall is that you will lose the brightness control. (you can't do anything about it) . Unless , you don't mind.. u may proceed to download.

This post has been edited by AmyDazz: Dec 2 2012, 01:10 PM

You can upgrade directly to the latest one. Just make sure you uninstall every Nvidia Driver as per in Control Panel "Program and Features".

Oh, by the way...if you have other games than I played. Maybe you can report whether is improvement? Thanks.

2. I am aware that Windows 8 has its own partition management, and I have tried once. Bu it has its own limitation whereby you can shrink the volume up to certain amount. Beyond that, it is not allowable. In this case, I tried to shrink my C: (400++GB) to 100GB. But Windows 8 does not allow that.

And apparently, when I checked back to the Lenovo forum, there is issues about this "Partition and One-Key". They (forum moderator), said that you can't actually resize the partition at all! Not even a Megabyte!

If you resize the partition, the One-Key Recovery won't be functioning!

They should have made reference in the user guide! And be careful, this seems to apply to other Lenovo laptops as well which have the One-Key Recovery feature.

Anyway, I will send my laptop in just a while to IBM Malaysia. Hopefully, they can repair my laptop.

This post has been edited by AmyDazz: Dec 3 2012, 08:21 AM

Bro? Seriously you wanna test it? I expect that you will encounter the same problem as mine. It's the risk you have to take.

Anyway, if it's working...than please report in here. Thanks.

As in my case, Y500 does not have Optical Disc Drive (ODD). So, my option would only be to rely on the OKR should my system fails.

So, basically, I'm stucked at the "Winload.efi cannot be found". I, maybe can reinstall Windows 8. But how can I get the installation OEM of Windows 8? I have no idea man.

I sent the laptop already. Hopefully, they can fix it.

But our Lenovo Y500 is pre-installed with Windows 8 (non-Pro version) right? How can we reinstall the Windows 8 with the Windows 8 Pro installation ISO?

Anyway, you know any legit links for me to download the Windows 8 Pro ISO ?

I searched already in Google. But there seems no direct download available like last time during Windows 7 era. Where we can rightly download from msdn.

We can download the Windows 8 Pro and burn the ISO. But that is no direct download, and I have to upgrade first.

Here is the link--->> http://superuser.com/questions/460762/how-...-efi-bootloader

For those who have upgraded the Nvidia driver and lost the brightness control...can someone verify this--->>> ??

Quoted from --->> http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-...ite/td-p/935643

"Yup, installing energy management would bing back the volume and brightness osd's. However i reccomend you install the energy management of windows 7 as the one for windows 8 has bugs and hence does not work properly.
The osd's for one key theatre would only come after reinstalling one key theatre software. Download from below."


http://driverdl.lenovo.com.cn/lenovo/Drive...Theater_x64.exe


If it is correct, maybe we can retain the brightness control when we update the Nvidia driver.

This post has been edited by AmyDazz: Dec 3 2012, 09:32 PM

I used Image Backup for Windows 8 by Paragon to clone my HDD. Very easy and straight forward to use. Highly recommended to other users as well

Here's the link:-

http://www.paragon-software.com/technologi...ws-8/index.html

It can be done (I assume) , you can go read further at their website. I suppose it can be done.

I use that software for merely backup purpose.

I backup and tried restore once...and yeah with success


I'm still with my old hard disk. I use the Paragon software for only backup purpose.

I remember I had this error before. But people said updating to the latest driver would solve the problem.

How come your graphics performance is 7? My SLI got 6.5.

What graphic card driver are you using?