The reason I am asking is because ALL 3 games that I've bought exhibit very SLOW framerates, to the point it almost becomes unplayable. These games are:
1) Call of Duty 2: about 5 frames or less during moderate to heavy fighting scene
2) Quake 4: very bad framerate 90% of the time
3) City of Villains: very, very bad framerate 99% of the time. During the "flying" scene over the city, it's like watching a flipbook rather than 3D game.
I can play BF2 and Doom3 with low/med settings. But even in low settings, none of the above can play well.
I've upgraded my RAM to 1Gb (Corsair XMS) and done all tweaks possible, but yet no result. These tweaks are:
1). Paging file set to the 1.5 Gb for Min. and Max. value (less swapping)
2). Defrag HDD with Diskeeper (Boot time and in Windows)
3). Turned of all unncessary services (MSCONFIG, JV16, startup, services, etc.)
4). Run Spy Sweeper, Ad-Aware, and Spybot to check for spyware
5). Run NAV to check for virus
6). Use Omega Drivers (latest)
7). Set "Performance" in 3D settings tab under Video properties
Sincethe MR9800 is NO LONGER available at Dell (I called them and they know the MR9800 for the "supposedly" XPS Gen 1), it seems to me that my 9100 is now outdated. Is this true or does anyone know any other tweaks to prolong the life of the 9100?
1) Call of Duty 2: about 5 frames or less during moderate to heavy fighting scene
2) Quake 4: very bad framerate 90% of the time
3) City of Villains: very, very bad framerate 99% of the time. During the "flying" scene over the city, it's like watching a flipbook rather than 3D game.
I can play BF2 and Doom3 with low/med settings. But even in low settings, none of the above can play well.
I've upgraded my RAM to 1Gb (Corsair XMS) and done all tweaks possible, but yet no result. These tweaks are:
1). Paging file set to the 1.5 Gb for Min. and Max. value (less swapping)
2). Defrag HDD with Diskeeper (Boot time and in Windows)
3). Turned of all unncessary services (MSCONFIG, JV16, startup, services, etc.)
4). Run Spy Sweeper, Ad-Aware, and Spybot to check for spyware
5). Run NAV to check for virus
6). Use Omega Drivers (latest)
7). Set "Performance" in 3D settings tab under Video properties
Sincethe MR9800 is NO LONGER available at Dell (I called them and they know the MR9800 for the "supposedly" XPS Gen 1), it seems to me that my 9100 is now outdated. Is this true or does anyone know any other tweaks to prolong the life of the 9100?
