Murdock

Hi!

I bought a laptop a few months ago, an Acer Aspire 5672WLMi with the following system (there are different versions on the market):

Intel Core DUO 1,66

ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 128 MB RAM, up to 512 with Hyper Threading

1 GB RAM (just bought two 1 GB bars of the manufactor infinity, so now I have 2 GB!)


I guess for gaming, these are the key features of the Laptop.

Before I bought the laptop, I saw that some internet sites tested this laptop and others with about the same features (I think one had a little faster CPU, a 173 GHz one). All of them ran Quake 4 and Doom 3 without any problems. No stuttering, etc. at all.


Now I thought let's try those games and unfortunately, I can do whatever I want, the game stutters. I even lowered the graphics quality to medium, I even tried ultra. Suprisingly, the results were almost the same. The very first level, when u enter this base, the fps drop to 10 (high quality), 12 (medium) or 9 (ultra).

WTF?!

I use the 7.3 NGO drivers. I admit, I haven'T tried the new 7.4 ones, but I somehow doubt (from what I have experienced during my 15 years of dealing with computers ...) that this driver will make a game run without any stuttering while the previous version doesn't ...

But is it possible that I have overlooked something? Is the game not opimized for the x1600?! is there anything I can do, maybe in the famous config files of these two games to make those games run better?

Thx in advance.

Murdock

hmm, no1 here whp could help me?

Another thing I was wondering about is that with the original driver from ATI, games always fit the whole screen. But if I have the NGO ones installed and I choose a resolution of e.g. 1024x768 (which is 4:3, right?) there are black bars at the sides. With the original drivers, the screen gets strechted somehow so it even the entire screen is filled if I choose a 4:3 resolution. Can I activate this somehow in the NGO drivers, too?

thx

IModIntel

This would be more of a question to ask Regeneration, since he is the one who designed the drivers.

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IModAmd

Well dont exept an great performance from integreated graphics When i have my 6150 LE integreated i was wow but... when i see the new performances of my X1900 GT I WAS WTF well If is an long time you didnt do an fresh install of windows try that and download the lastest ngohq od or the original drivers!

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IModIntel

X1600 mobile graphics are not to be considered as integrated because they are installed or soldered on a socket.

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IModAmd

Well ok but anyways my message was don't exept the an god performance from an laptop chip or integrated graphics :P

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IModIntel

You are generalizing too much. Get a laptop with two Nvidia 7950 Go`s in SLi-on-chip, and even if its a laptop you`ll get some killer results, better than any X1900GT`s or x1950pro`s.

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IModAmd

Yeah that's different ! Is an sli config that's normal bro lol

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Murdock

sorry, don't wanna get on ur nerves, but can u fuys discuss stuff liek that somewhere else?

I mean I seek for a solution to my problem, and this chit.chat about x1950 GT, GTS, XLPSTUGFH, GTIDONTCARE chips is not much of a contribution to my problem.

Sorry, but I don't care much about how fast a graphics chip can be that I just can't affort ... ... I can't buy a laptop for 2500 EUR or more. So ...

... ANY SOLUTIONS?


... since I get this problem of the scaling of the picture in many games (which do not support 16:9 / 16:10 resolutions, but only 4:3) I am pretty eager to find anything that might help to fit the screen with the whole picture.


Thx for any real help in advance.

Mac Daddy

Yes please do and guys Rege has already mentioned these forums are not for off topic we have a forum for that .....

I don't have any answers for you Murdock but hopefully someone will

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