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post #1 of 8
4/2/07 at 9:58pm
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My old notebook, which is a Toshiba Satellite M45, with Pentium M 730 (1.6 ghz) processor, 512mb RAM, and an 128MB Integrated Intel GMS910 chip, oddly outperforms my NEW desktop in gaming.

My desktop is a HP Pavillion a1747c, with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Dual Core Processor, 1GB RAM, and a 128MB Nvidia Geforce 6150 LE.

Each component of my pc, processor, RAM, video card, hdd is better than my laptop except for the fact that the laptop is running Windows XP Professional, where as the PC is running Vista Ultimate.

How is it that when I play Hitman 3, the performance on the PC is extremely poor (frame-skipping even on low) whereas it is perfect on the laptop?

Is Vista really that much worse than XP for gaming?
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post #2 of 8
4/2/07 at 10:30pm
Beacuse youre running DX9.0L which is a emulated version of DX10, my brother bought a HP lappy and everquest runs horrid on it, becuase it has to emulate it.

Get a laptop with a video card (non shared) and youll be fine because the video card can default down to DX9.0C

Thats the main reason gamers still use xp pro for gaming


soulsaver
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post #3 of 8
4/2/07 at 10:45pm
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so is there any way I can play games on my desktop?
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post #4 of 8
4/2/07 at 10:50pm
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Originally Posted by KillaHaZe
so is there any way I can play games on my desktop?
you can, but for the most part its gonna look crappy

btw that sounds like the desktop my brother bought, was it for like 800 bucks and you could get a 17 inch lcd for 200 more or somthing at best buy?

if you were to get a copy of windows xp home/pro then youd be set you could play a few games with it

my advice, get a desktop with xp or laptop with xp

soulsaver
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post #5 of 8
4/2/07 at 10:58pm
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if we're talking new games and the future like 6 months to a year, which would be the better OS to keep?
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post #6 of 8
4/2/07 at 11:00pm
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Originally Posted by KillaHaZe
if we're talking new games and the future like 6 months to a year, which would be the better OS to keep?
future, as in a year from now, vista, few months from now, xp

unless you wanna drop 300 dollars for a DX10 video card, and even then itll have to convert since theres no, or not many DX10 games atm

but there isnt much of a diffrence as of now between xp and vista, just smoke and mirrors thats about it, my next laptop purchase will be xp pro/home edition for sure vista isnt as big of hype as i was expecting, same with everyone else ive spoken with


soulsaver
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post #7 of 8
4/2/07 at 11:10pm
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since my desktop has a dedicated video card, shouldn't it be able to play DX9 games? Hitman 3 is a pretty old game, which comes with DX9.0B. I still dont see why my desktop would be slower than my laptop if i had a dedicated graphics card with a newer version of DX.
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post #8 of 8
4/2/07 at 11:20pm
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Originally Posted by KillaHaZe
since my desktop has a dedicated video card, shouldn't it be able to play DX9 games? Hitman 3 is a pretty old game, which comes with DX9.0B. I still dont see why my desktop would be slower than my laptop if i had a dedicated graphics card with a newer version of DX.
the desktop has vista right? with vista you have the DX9.0L which is the emulated version of DX10.0 unless the dedicated video card is a DX10.0 compliant/compatable video card, it will emulate causing lag, or poor preformence

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