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post #1 of 20
2/2/04 at 7:56pm
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i just added:
-Call of Duty
-Age of Mythology
-Neverwinter nights
-Halo

to my area 51m order....

has anyoen played these on their 51m laptops

? any issues? how do they play?

i just got ym paperwork in to them today after orginally placing the order on like the 17th!!!!!!!

financing adding 13 days to the process....ouch... looking forward to phase 2!!!!!!!
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post #2 of 20
2/2/04 at 8:15pm
Call of Duty runs superbly, with alittle slowdown in the first 'Stalingrad" mission.

When I played the Halo demo, the frame rates were abit dissappointing but tolerable.

Congrats on the new lappy!!
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post #3 of 20
2/2/04 at 8:32pm
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Originally Posted by RdLdr1
Call of Duty runs superbly, with alittle slowdown in the first 'Stalingrad" mission.

When I played the Halo demo, the frame rates were abit dissappointing but tolerable.

Congrats on the new lappy!!
thanks man, im actually on phase 3 now, the ball is really rolling, hopefull it iwll onyl be 30 more days
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post #4 of 20
2/2/04 at 9:08pm
Halo was VERY poorly made for PC's.. even with my 4780 (3.0ghz 1gig ddr) it still runs sluggish sometimes.. hopefully after about 5 gens of patches itll work ok.. i cant run halo at anything higher than 860x900 (something like that) otherwise the mouse is so choppy you cant move.. it plays "OK", but not good.. not really worth playin on a pc if you have an xbox..but i no longer have a choice.. i sold my xbox to aford my laptop.. nuts :-(
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post #5 of 20
2/2/04 at 9:14pm
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Originally Posted by Evil Juggalo
Halo was VERY poorly made for PC's.. even with my 4780 (3.0ghz 1gig ddr) it still runs sluggish sometimes.. hopefully after about 5 gens of patches itll work ok.. i cant run halo at anything higher than 860x900 (something like that) otherwise the mouse is so choppy you cant move.. it plays "OK", but not good.. not really worth playin on a pc if you have an xbox..but i no longer have a choice.. i sold my xbox to aford my laptop.. nuts :-(
well my laptopp will be a 3.2 1gb ram...

hopefully it wont be too bad...

if it doesnt play well on those specs what DOES it play well on?
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post #6 of 20
2/2/04 at 9:18pm
I assure you they will run wonderfully. COD runs beautifully at 1600x1200 with highest quality settings on the lappy in my sig with no OCing.
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post #7 of 20
2/2/04 at 9:28pm
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Originally Posted by JasonE4
I assure you they will run wonderfully. COD runs beautifully at 1600x1200 with highest quality settings on the lappy in my sig with no OCing.
nice my configurationw ill be similar or higher than those specs.....

cant wait to play COD, my friend has it and im already addicted
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post #8 of 20
2/2/04 at 10:00pm
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will having just a 5400 rpm hdd slow down game play?
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post #9 of 20
2/2/04 at 10:04pm
NO, it won't slow game play, but it may slow the loading of levels slightly, definitely not by much though.
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post #10 of 20
2/2/04 at 10:06pm
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Originally Posted by JasonE4
NO, it won't slow game play, but it may slow the loading of levels slightly, definitely not by much though.
Thasnk that was my only concern
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post #11 of 20
2/2/04 at 10:15pm
halo plays perfect on my pc
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post #12 of 20
2/2/04 at 10:27pm
You wont have a problem with COD - its running smooth on a dell 8600 Centrino with the 32MB nvidia 5200 go !!

That game is VERy well made indeed...kudos!!
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post #13 of 20
2/2/04 at 10:47pm
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Originally Posted by Evil Juggalo
Halo was VERY poorly made for PC's.. even with my 4780 (3.0ghz 1gig ddr) it still runs sluggish sometimes.. hopefully after about 5 gens of patches itll work ok.. i cant run halo at anything higher than 860x900 (something like that) otherwise the mouse is so choppy you cant move.. it plays "OK", but not good.. not really worth playin on a pc if you have an xbox..but i no longer have a choice.. i sold my xbox to aford my laptop.. nuts :-(


LOL r u joking i play on 16 person servers.... hosted undedicatedly on 1000mhz 256mb ram p3 l;aptops on a wirelesscable network... lol and to this day i never experienced lag on it
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post #14 of 20
2/2/04 at 10:48pm
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Originally Posted by AlienGreen751
LOL r u joking i play on 16 person servers.... hosted undedicatedly on 1000mhz 256mb ram p3 l;aptops on a wirelesscable network... lol and to this day i never experienced lag on it
that is very encouraging
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post #15 of 20
2/3/04 at 11:07am
Yes, I play Halo every day and it's wonderful. I do have to add '-use14' to my command line for the pixel shader effects, but it looks pretty damn good.

I play it at 1152x864, most everything turned on, and get mid-20s to mid-30s in FPS. Not wonderful, but not bad. Of course FPS will go up dramatically with various options disabled.

I also play Desert Combat (BF 1942 mod) as well, and it looks *great.* You will, of course, need to get over the ubiquitous image shifting inherent in laptop gaming (due to the fast action and slow monitor response rate) but it's most definitely playable.
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post #16 of 20
2/3/04 at 11:13am

Nwn??

I think it's hysterical that AW sells NWN with their own laptops, since the game will not function properly out of the box with the ATI 9600 card. Neither will the newer Knights of the Old Republic. You'll have to take hardware acceleration down a notch - or you might get away with disabling the hardware cursor in game - or you'll face intermittent lockups. With the workaround in place, the cursor will flash and frame rates will suffer. Grrr.

That said, I'm playing both KotOR and NWN anyway. The new Hordes expansion for NWN is a lot of fun. But ATI or AW or maybe even Bioware should get on the ball with a fix. Alledgedly the Omega drivers improve this but I got tired of playing beta tester. I just think its funny that AW claims to test so thoroughly, and you can buy stuff on their own site that doesn't quite work.
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post #17 of 20
2/3/04 at 10:36pm
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Originally Posted by mbenigni
I think it's hysterical that AW sells NWN with their own laptops, since the game will not function properly out of the box with the ATI 9600 card. Neither will the newer Knights of the Old Republic. You'll have to take hardware acceleration down a notch - or you might get away with disabling the hardware cursor in game - or you'll face intermittent lockups. With the workaround in place, the cursor will flash and frame rates will suffer. Grrr.

That said, I'm playing both KotOR and NWN anyway. The new Hordes expansion for NWN is a lot of fun. But ATI or AW or maybe even Bioware should get on the ball with a fix. Alledgedly the Omega drivers improve this but I got tired of playing beta tester. I just think its funny that AW claims to test so thoroughly, and you can buy stuff on their own site that doesn't quite work.
how did you get nwn to work? form other posts it seems no one has had success.
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post #18 of 20
2/3/04 at 11:12pm
I went into the advanced tab of display settings, went to the troubleshooting tab in the ATI-specific stuff, and moved the "acceleration" slider one position to the left. This will cause a degradation in performance, but it turns off some of the hardware-cursor functionality that disagrees with the NWN engine.

Others have claimed to resolve this in other (better) ways - ie. SmartGart, Omega drivers, new AW drivers, and or in-game settings, but this is the only thing that's worked for me. Good luck!
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post #19 of 20
2/3/04 at 11:23pm
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Originally Posted by mbenigni
I went into the advanced tab of display settings, went to the troubleshooting tab in the ATI-specific stuff, and moved the "acceleration" slider one position to the left. This will cause a degradation in performance, but it turns off some of the hardware-cursor functionality that disagrees with the NWN engine.

Others have claimed to resolve this in other (better) ways - ie. SmartGart, Omega drivers, new AW drivers, and or in-game settings, but this is the only thing that's worked for me. Good luck!
thanks alot! ill eb sure to try all of those
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post #20 of 20
2/4/04 at 9:48pm
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Originally Posted by mbenigni
I think it's hysterical that AW sells NWN with their own laptops, since the game will not function properly out of the box with the ATI 9600 card. Neither will the newer Knights of the Old Republic. You'll have to take hardware acceleration down a notch - or you might get away with disabling the hardware cursor in game - or you'll face intermittent lockups. With the workaround in place, the cursor will flash and frame rates will suffer. Grrr.
Age of Mythology has the exact same problem (and unsatisfying fix) with 7.95 video drivers from AW. But it works fine with 7.91 or Omegas.
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