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post #1 of 4
12/8/09 at 5:09am
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Planning to play Top Spin 2 video game. Below are my upgraded Asus A6R laptop specs
OS: XP Pro SP3 32 bit
CPU: Intel Pentium M 765 2.1 GHz
RAM: 1024 MB
Video Memory: ATI Radeon Xpress 200M Series 128 MB (integrated)
Local Hard Drive Space: 40GB; 60% are free space
Other: Installed 3D Hardware Accelerator Card with 100% DirectX 9.0c

The PC minimum system requirements of Top Spin 2 are the same specs as the above mentioned items except the CPU requires an Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Take note mine is Intel Pentium M 765 2.1 GHz)
I have already installed Radeon Omega Driver version 2.6.87, 3.8.205 and the latest version 4.8.442 but still the video game frame rate is sluggish/Slow. I have even adjusted the tab 3D custom setting for direct 3D & Open GL namely “anti-aliasing & anisotropic filtering” were both set to 2X, the “texture preference and mipmap detail level” were set to high performance instead of high quality and “wait for vertical sync” was set to always off but so far nothing had change. Do you think my CPU or video memory insufficient performance is the most likely cause of sluggish/slow frame rate?

Any comments/suggestions will be highly appreciated. Thanks
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post #2 of 4
12/8/09 at 8:29pm
I would personally first max out the ram to 2 gig, get another faster drive if yours is less than 7200rp and get back to the ATI original driver (6.x or 8.x using the one from IBM site).

I own a few systems with 200M and learned (by experience) that the ATI driver is much better than the modded ones from Omega or some others.

cheers ...
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post #3 of 4
12/9/09 at 1:48pm
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I would personally first max out the ram to 2 gig, get another faster drive if yours is less than 7200rp and get back to the ATI original driver (6.x or 8.x using the one from IBM site).

I own a few systems with 200M and learned (by experience) that the ATI driver is much better than the modded ones from Omega or some others.

cheers ...
message noted with thanks
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post #4 of 4
12/17/09 at 3:47am
Not only that, but when you max out the ram, be sure to either see about editting the timings, and or going into the asus's bios and seeing if you can allocate more system memory to the video card. Using ATI tool to increase the clock by about 50mhz of the gpu won't hurt either. (AND Before I get flamed down for overclocking an integrated video card, I owned a presario with a 200M, and it was definately the bottleneck, doing these things helped my fps go up by roughly 15%. especially playing anything at native resolutions, it never died until I did a bios flash wrong, not from any overclocking. It worked like that for years.).
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