My core duo is stinking up on games!

[ShadoWing]

hey, this is the laptop i have, upgraded to 1 gig:
http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/rdet.jsp?poid=341599&seg=HHO

Even when turning down everything to low settings, i get the same framerate at like 20fps when i do it on all high settings. Is it a problem with my drivers or something? Even with 128mb integrated graphics i should be able to play Something decently. Even CS 1.6 is getting 20-30 fps!

Help! thanks in advance!

 

[fbrdphreak]

I'm not surprised, but I would guess even CS1.6 should get decent framerates. The only place I can think to start is download 3DMark2001 or 2003, run it, and post your score

 

[Raduque]

Nope, sorry. The GMA950 is completely inadequate for gaming. By "low settings" did you change the screen resolution to 640x480 or something, too?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Did you do any research on just how bad intel motherboard graphics are before buying this laptop?

Dude, you should've gotten a Dell E1505 with Radeon X1400 if you cared about gaming.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Isn't CS 1.6 like DX7? I'd imagine even GMA950 could handle that, but I never bothered to benchmark any of the GMA950 systems I've had through here

 

[ShadoWing]

hm.....well, what would happen if i upgraded to 2 gigs of ram? Or is it bottlenecked there?

 

[DaveSimmons]

It is the awful "video card" that is crippling your gaming. 16 GB of RAM and overclocking the CPU to 20 GHz will not make a bit of difference.

Help I'm a broken-legged turtle! (GMA 950 is not so great)


Sorry, but you're just not going to be able to game with that video hardware unless you settle for emulators, 2D games, and Quake 3 era shooters.

 

[ShadoWing]

doh! i figured 128mb of integrated memory would still help to some point. Guess not

 

[postmortemIA]

(memory) size matters the least! it is how you use it

 

[cerebusPu]

your bottleneck is the GMA950. i dont even attempt to play games on mine.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
It is the awful "video card" that is crippling your gaming. 16 GB of RAM and overclocking the CPU to 20 GHz will not make a bit of difference.

Help I'm a broken-legged turtle! (GMA 950 is not so great)


Sorry, but you're just not going to be able to game with that video hardware unless you settle for emulators, 2D games, and Quake 3 era shooters.

But isn't CS 1.6 even older than UT2K4? It seems like CS 1.6 should be playable

 

[imported_zippo]

I know the author of this thread mentioned that he has the integrated 950 video option and someone mentioned he should have upgraded to the radeon x1400 if he cared about gaming at all. The notebook I'm considering doesn't have the option for radeon x1400 but instead a 128MB nvidia geforce go 7400. From a few notebook video card faq the 7400 is very close to the x1400 in performance for light gaming, everyone have the same general consensus? How does the geforce go 7400 perform with lets say Call Of Duty 2 since it is very gpu dependent. Thanks.

 

[postmortemIA]

i don't think there's significant speed difference between x1400 and 7400. 7400 might be more optimized, and x1400 has 128-bit memory bus.