NotebookForums.com › Forums › Notebook Manufacturers › Dell Notebook Forums › Dell Home (Inspiron, XPS, Studio) › F.E.A.R dominating on my m1710?
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

F.E.A.R dominating on my m1710? - Page 2

post #21 of 33
5/15/06 at 2:38pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by GOD_OF_WAR
Add another gig of RAM and you should see some improvement. But dont feel too bad even some SLI systems have difficulty getting over 60FPS with everything cranked up at 1920x1200. Jus do a google search for SLI setup benchmarks of F.E.A.R. and youll c. Its a very GPU and CPU intensive game years ahead of its time. The G80 should eat it bcuz it will be a newer generation card with DX10.
But isn't F.E.A.R. writting for directx 9.0c or whatever? One of the huge things about DX10 will be that is has no common code with previous versions of DX making it that much better*. So in order to run any game that require DX10 it will have to emulate. In my experience emulators cause performance decrease. Though if the card is fast enough this reduction i nperformance won't be noticable, it will still be an emulation. *Ever version of DX to date has had code written into it to allow it to work natively with games using previous versions of DX. This has caused tons of bloat that actually decreased performance for the newest verstion. M$ decided to leave this idiology behind and create DX10 without any considerations for previous versions. Til recentely I didn't even know it would emulate it, but I guess it makes sense that they would find a way. It will not be like running it natively though like previous versions did.
Reply
Reply
post #22 of 33
5/15/06 at 4:56pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by 5150 Joker
All the more reason to get an E1705/9400 with it's lower resolution WXGA display so you can run games at a reasonable native resolution. When the 7900 Go GTX is in stock, the E1705's that have WXGA panels will be kicking FEAR's ass. I don't understand why Dell doesn't let M1710 users pick WXGA displays...

I thought the M1710 had a better screen than the standard inspirons?
Reply
Reply
post #23 of 33
5/15/06 at 10:34pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wingatebyebye
I thought the M1710 had a better screen than the standard inspirons?

It does, but higher resolution = stress on your video card so...

Reply
Reply
post #24 of 33
5/15/06 at 11:55pm
I just came from a WXGA screen and I can see why DELL doesnt let XPS users opt for those screens my god are they horrible.
Reply
Reply
post #25 of 33
5/16/06 at 12:42am
Quote:
Originally Posted by DELL-Machina
I just came from a WXGA screen and I can see why DELL doesnt let XPS users opt for those screens my god are they horrible.
Reply
Reply
post #26 of 33
5/16/06 at 12:43am
Quote:
Originally Posted by SilverSauce
Reply
Reply
post #27 of 33
5/16/06 at 4:21am

HDD dma 5 vs pio

check in your device manager the; primary ide channel poperties= advanced settings = it should be DMA 5 or 6
i had terible troubles when it was set too low...games were very "glitchy"

oh well just an idea
Reply
Reply
post #28 of 33
5/16/06 at 11:31pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by AceDaffy
check in your device manager the; primary ide channel poperties= advanced settings = it should be DMA 5 or 6
i had terible troubles when it was set too low...games were very "glitchy"

oh well just an idea
ultra dma mode 5

should it be 6?
Reply
Reply
post #29 of 33
5/17/06 at 12:33am
i upgraded to 2 gigs of ram and it COMPLETELY fixed the studdering problem. The ingame bench mark will not be effected because that is precached, but you will see in certain benchmarks that the game needs more than 1 gig ram, and if you have only 1 gig, then it will go from your harddrive. The upgrade to 2 gig fixed everything on my m1710. I also "only" got 533mhz OCZ ram and it just is awesome. Question though.....how do i force native resolution? I can only get 1600 by 1200.
Reply
Reply
post #30 of 33
5/17/06 at 12:38am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave
.....how do i force native resolution? I can only get 1600 by 1200.
This is a good place for widescreen questions. They will have you edit a file and select whatever resolution you want. Worked fine for me. Widescreen Gaming Forum Click on "Master Game List" then find your game...Direct Link for FEAR
Reply
Reply
post #31 of 33
5/17/06 at 5:01am
M170 7800gtx 2gb
FEAR runs smooth @ 1600 x 1200 with everything max or on EXCEPT AA. Turn off AA and the game should run smoothly as when I turn AA on I get very low frame rate.
Is there a way to run this game at 1920 x 1200?? The largest res available to me on options is 1600 x 1200.
Reply
Reply
post #32 of 33
5/17/06 at 7:35am
Quote:
Originally Posted by T Ralphs
M170 7800gtx 2gb
FEAR runs smooth @ 1600 x 1200 with everything max or on EXCEPT AA. Turn off AA and the game should run smoothly as when I turn AA on I get very low frame rate.
Is there a way to run this game at 1920 x 1200?? The largest res available to me on options is 1600 x 1200.


C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Documents\\Monolith Productions\\Fear

open .cfg file with notepad and set the desired resolution
Reply
Reply
post #33 of 33
5/17/06 at 8:53am
Quote:
Originally Posted by AceDaffy
check in your device manager the; primary ide channel poperties= advanced settings = it should be DMA 5 or 6
i had terible troubles when it was set too low...games were very "glitchy"

oh well just an idea


How did u change your settings to a higher DMA? mine is display ultra DMA 5 is that suppose to be right I have the same specs comp as you
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
NotebookForums.com › Forums › Notebook Manufacturers › Dell Notebook Forums › Dell Home (Inspiron, XPS, Studio) › F.E.A.R dominating on my m1710?