260m and bad company 2

[slightlyhuman]

Not running as well as I thought it would. I have an ASUS g51vx. 4gb ram, dual-core 2.0ghz, 260m gfx, 7200rpm HD.

native rest is 1366x768 but I even tried 1024 res. Running it on even low settings is well under 25fps. I've tried both dx10 and dx9, same results. Fresh install of windows 7. L4D/L4D2 all run 60+ FPS on high.

Latest nvidia drivers installed. I even used gossamer's bad company 2 launcher to turn everything down to low. Surely this setup can run this game better?

Look at the FPS it was getting on this review!
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-260M.14559.0.html

 

[Worthington]

that benchmark.. was it for your laptop in specific, or just the GPU? I ask because I don't see any reference to the CPU used for those tests and BF:BC2 is notoriously CPU heavy.

 

[slightlyhuman]

that benchmark.. was it for your laptop in specific, or just the GPU? I ask because I don't see any reference to the CPU used for those tests and BF:BC2 is notoriously CPU heavy.

hmmm.. true. perhaps this 2.0ghz dual core is bottlenecking me big time.

which options in bad company 2 are gfx specific? i can turn them up without breaking the CPU. also which are CPU specific?

 

[minmaster]

hmm it should still run it decently.
dx9 will yield much more playable fps.
try editing sound to low in the ini file, and set render ahead in ini and nvidia cp to 1 or 2.
i believe audio hogs up 1 core by itself.

 

[Nebor]

I have an Asus G72GX with the same video card, and I have BC2, but I haven't tried it yet...

 

[Lonyo]

Intel Core i5 520M 2.4GHz was the CPU used in their testing (if you click in the FPS numbers it tells you all the specs).

 

[slightlyhuman]

I have an Asus G72GX with the same video card, and I have BC2, but I haven't tried it yet...

cpu specs? please try it and LMK nebor:beer;

 

[Nebor]

It's got a core 2 duo sticker on it. I think it's an E8800, whatever that works out to. I mainly use it to play Tropico (the first one) and it runs that pretty well most of the time.