I wanna buy a Tecra M2 for gaming... - Page 2

What a bastard. What does $15 matter out of €550. He could have at elast held on to all the extras for a couple of days so you could at least take it home and play with the laptop. Then give them to you when you show up with the other $15.

I've never heard anybody complain about the screens on these. Could it be the resolution? What resolution are the other screens that you are comparing it to, also xga? (I'm assuming this M2 is xga as most 14" are and xga is the default option on these).

I've been using a 14" screen for quite a while and I find it to be the perfect size for maintining mobility.

As for the brightnes adjustments, it might be a software function that requires one of the Toshibaware applets and maybe it's not installed. IIRC, Fn-F6 and F7 are the right keys. How far down screen brightness goes when you unplug it ois something that can be adjusted in the power management applets. You can adjust these so that the screen stays on full brightness until the battery drops and then gets dimmer if you like. There are a ton of settings to play with.

Laggy touchpad and low 3dmark2001 score are suspicious, but probably software/malware related. Did the guy format and do a clean install of everything? Could there be some spyware or virus hanging out? I've heard complaints about the touchpad buttons being stiff in the M3, but never heard any complaints about the M2. Does it seem slow in any other way? I 'd think that idf there were a hardware problem with the GPU, then you'd be lucky to even see anything on the screen.

I'm getting a M2V (I don't game or do anything that needs the gpu) delivered some time next week (I hope) as well. I don't know why I felt like sharing that, I guess I'm just anxious to upgrade this aging P3 that I've been using.

I'd say load all the drivers that are on the website. You'll find newer versions there than what are on the restore cd. It might be better with the Omega drivers you mentioned, than with the the drivers from Toshiba. But to tell you the truth, since I don't game I haven't followed those very closely. My overall impression, based on these forums, is that they do seem to work better than the stock ones. You could even try with teh stock drivers, bench it, then get the omega ones, install them and becnh it again to see if there is a difference.

Also load the power management and utilities from there and see how it goes. Some of the other programs will probably contain the extended keyboard functions (like adjusting the screen brightness, programing the extra buttons)and all that stuff.

Good luck & I hope everything works out well!

Sounds pretty good. I've never shopped for one so I'm really not familiar with the prices, but I know that MS mice wireless or not tend to be pricey.

are you running it with AC power on?

okay cause running it on battery will cause a drop on score

mine appears at its full speed.....

i dont make mine stay max

Kenner, check THIS out. It's a guy with worse scores than yours on a dell with a similar config (at least same GPU). Looks like he got some other drivers for the card and his scores went up to just under 6k.