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My core duo is stinking up on games!

Nope, integrated shared memory graphics are crap, sorry.

If it's any consolation that's a great machine for work stuff, and video editing, photoshop, watching films, etc...

 
Originally posted by: 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!
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ROFL you're mentioning all the wrong ******.

Video cards > all

In terms of playing games.

Your computer cannot play any games.

That is all.
 
Unfortunately, the Intel 950 integrated video chipset is very poor at games. It's great for business at 2D video (movies and presentations) but simply doesn't have the 3D capabilities you need for gaming. Try running 3DMark on the machine. I'd be surprised if you even get 2000 points in 3DMark2001 on that laptop, despite the nice CPU in the computer. For a reference point, my Acer with SiSM760GX onboard video (better 3D than the Intel 950) only gets around 1200 points in 3DMark 2001 with a Sempron 3000+ and 512MB of RAM. Your CPU alone should get you a better score than mine, but probably not by much.
 
Despite that he should still be able to get a higher framerate on CS 1.6? This computers initial 64mb integrated could that....
 
Even an MX440 is smoking compared to GMA950 graphics performance. The GMA950 flat out doesn't even support a lot of features that current games require, or does them in software so they don't work properly, even though things like hardware transform and lighting were being supported years before. The mobile GMA950 is also even slower than the one included in desktop chipsets (250MHz clock compared to 400MHz), and there's just no way any chipset which depends entirely on shared memory can beat any system with any amount of dedicated graphics memory.
 
I upgraded from an integrated graphics chipset all the way to a 7800GT, GTX was the best at the time. Put it this way, graphics cards are everything in games, cpu only slows you down when it's really slow, I underclocked my X2 3800+ to 1GHZ and got terrible frame rates, so have a decent cpu and a great video card to play games.
 
yea, i just wanna make the best use outta my laptop as i can't upgrade it or anything. Is it possible i could actually put in a new mobo that fits it with dedicated gfx?
 
Originally posted by: ShadoWing
yea, i just wanna make the best use outta my laptop as i can't upgrade it or anything. Is it possible i could actually put in a new mobo that fits it with dedicated gfx?
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Don't think so.

Athlon XP 2500 OC'd to 3200 w/ Thermalright SLK-800
NF7-S v1.22 Mobo
768 2700 DDR RAM Dual Channel lol
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 mb 256-bit
Western Digital 40 GB HD
Seagate Barracuda 120 GB HD SATA'd
Maxtor 180 GB HD
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What's wrong with this for games? I had something similar and it would play everything up to Far Cry and HL2 perfectly.
 
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