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post #1 of 15
9/11/04 at 1:38am
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Hi guys. I got an acer 2012wlmi:

1.5 ghz p-m
512 mb pc2700
60 GB 4200 rpm hdd
radeon mobility 9700 64 mb

When I play far cry and halo, I get a lot of stuttering in the game. I would like to know what ATI drivers you guys are using so as not to stutter in those games.
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post #2 of 15
9/11/04 at 3:00am
Have you tried the omega drivers?
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post #3 of 15
9/11/04 at 3:42am
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I've tried the omega drivers based on the cat 4.7 and it lagged just the same
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post #4 of 15
9/12/04 at 7:54pm
Definatly something wrong there Nark
FarCry and Halo should run very well indeed on a MR9700 even with settings on very high and at 1024x768
On my Centrino 1.4 512 meg MR9600 w/64meg with the original factory drivers dated 6/23/03 I can run FarCry very well.

Daley
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post #5 of 15
9/12/04 at 10:14pm
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perhaps its my slow harddrive? I got a 60 gb 4200 rpm harddrive.
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post #6 of 15
9/16/04 at 9:10pm
So can we be left to believe that the 64meg version of the 9700 will run Farcry adequately? I am about a week away from my first laptop purchase and am leaning heavily toward the ASUS M6BNE, but the video card has been my only concern (for playing splinter cell, thief 3, raven shield, NOT Doom 3!!) Whatever I buy will have 1Gb ram and a 7200rpm drive.
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post #7 of 15
9/16/04 at 9:58pm
i have the same type of system, but with a 60GB 5400rpm - 16MB buffer, FARCRY will stutter from time to time but the game play amazingly regardless. You will find that the game plays seemlessly more rather than stuttering. I play DOOM3 on this also without much slow downs. I don't think 64->128MB will be a huge difference since i got a high 3dmark score with 64MB. 16MB Buffer I beleive does make the difference also.
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post #8 of 15
9/16/04 at 10:04pm
You might also wanna try bumping your OpenGL and Direct3D main settings all the way to performance under your video card setting. That kinda boosts your overall gameplay.
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post #9 of 15
9/17/04 at 4:13am
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Originally Posted by princeofpersia
You might also wanna try bumping your OpenGL and Direct3D main settings all the way to performance under your video card setting. That kinda boosts your overall gameplay.
yeah, I have all the settings for maximum performance. I will see if I can get another stick of 512 mb and see if it still stutters. How much did u pay for your harddrive?
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post #10 of 15
9/17/04 at 6:22am
Halo doesn't really run well on *any* notebook at normal-high resolutions. It's such a resource hog of a game. Far Cry should run rather well though, but not on high or very high detail settings, as those require more than 512 MB of RAM.

Make sure that
1) you've disabled the Indexing service at Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services, it's a big resource hog
2) you've gotten the latest AGP drivers/ INF files for the motherboard. For most Centrino notebooks, that oughta be http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...9&DwnldID=7484
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post #11 of 15
9/17/04 at 12:27pm
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yup, I have indexing service disabled. I also ran far cry at medium and low settings. Although I did notice that it stuttered much less when run with low settings. I installed the new agp/inf drivers, so I will see what happens then. thanks for the link pd.
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post #12 of 15
9/17/04 at 12:53pm
yes it would be a good idea to reduce the graphics settings a little bit. They is probably why I was able to play it well.
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post #13 of 15
9/17/04 at 1:19pm
My emachines 6809 (AMD64 3200 with 9600/64mb ATI) runs Far Cry quite well. I do have some of the settings on "medium" however. With all settings at full the game just lagged and stuttered too much for me. There definitely seems to be something wrong with your rig if your ATI 9700 is having that many problems. I don't think that your centrino processor is the problem either. Your video card should be more than enough to run Far Cry decently. But going to medium settings should help alot. Good luck.
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post #14 of 15
9/17/04 at 3:09pm
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Originally Posted by Teegunn
My emachines 6809 (AMD64 3200 with 9600/64mb ATI) runs Far Cry quite well. I do have some of the settings on "medium" however. With all settings at full the game just lagged and stuttered too much for me. There definitely seems to be something wrong with your rig if your ATI 9700 is having that many problems. I don't think that your centrino processor is the problem either. Your video card should be more than enough to run Far Cry decently. But going to medium settings should help alot. Good luck.
I dont think its my card though, I mean I get over 40 fps in that game. It still stutters though. So I think it might be a harddrive/memory issue. I will keep you guys updated, I am gonna get a stick of 512 and see if that helps.
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post #15 of 15
9/19/04 at 9:13pm
i ahve an asus m6bne and playing halo is dead smooth, i have a 1.6GHz dothan, 64MB 9700, 1GB pc2700, 40GB 5400 RPM drive 8mb cache (halo does swap sometimes but not often)
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