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9200 and gaming?

post #1 of 20
11/30/04 at 5:11pm
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Altho 9200 is not a gaming laptop, what kind of FPS do you get on HL2, D3, UT2K4, etc? TIA
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post #2 of 20
11/30/04 at 5:50pm
I dunno..... ati 9700..... hmm not a gaming video card....
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post #3 of 20
11/30/04 at 6:08pm
Well I just installed MOH:PA on it, and it works fine (except for a slight mouse lag)

avrage fps: about 100-110

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post #4 of 20
11/30/04 at 6:17pm
I'm hoping the 9200 will be a good gaming laptop at least for a little while.

With that kind of fps I'm betting it'll beat out my desktop system that I just upgraded:

2.8C Northwood Penitum 4
1GB OCZ PC3200 DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB
200GB Seagate 7200.7 7200RPM HD with 8MB Cache

I built that into an Antec Aria SFF case so it's already small, the hard part about taking it to lan parties is the monitor and cables.
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post #5 of 20
11/30/04 at 6:55pm
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If it does decent FPS for D3 and HL2, I might get it. I am not a huge PC gamer anyway, but I'd like it to run games decently at least. I'd rather get my game on my big screen TV and surround sound. Any rumor as to when XPS2 will be released?
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post #6 of 20
11/30/04 at 8:16pm
just got back form playing hl2
i played 1920x1200 at 30fps.. without hl2 optimized drivers it roxxxxxx
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post #7 of 20
11/30/04 at 8:27pm
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Originally Posted by catfan2005
Well I just installed MOH:PA on it, and it works fine (except for a slight mouse lag)

avrage fps: about 100-110
I get the mouse lag on my desktop with this game also. Annoying...
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post #8 of 20
11/30/04 at 9:10pm
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Originally Posted by FearNo1
If it does decent FPS for D3 and HL2, I might get it. I am not a huge PC gamer anyway, but I'd like it to run games decently at least. I'd rather get my game on my big screen TV and surround sound. Any rumor as to when XPS2 will be released?
Yeah, I've heard from 2 different sources that it's going to be available in time for christmas shoppers. From one of those sources, I found out that it has a 17" screen and a Pentium M. That means two possibilities- it's going to be an i9200 with a Mobile Radeon 9800, or it's going to have Alviso. Alviso is a PCI-Express chipset that features PCI-Express graphics (mobile x800 or GeForce 6800 Go), high def audio, Pentium M with 533fsb, DDR2, and SATA. It it turns out to be the second possibility, I'm buying it for sure, but I'm not gonna buy an i9200 with a mobile 9800 when I can get a GeForce 6800 Go in a Sager 9860 right now if I wanted.
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post #9 of 20
11/30/04 at 9:51pm
9200 and gaming something that doesn't go together well
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post #10 of 20
11/30/04 at 9:58pm
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Originally Posted by SirBA
9200 and gaming something that doesn't go together well

Why do you say that, after all it has a 9700
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post #11 of 20
11/30/04 at 10:01pm
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Originally Posted by SirBA
9200 and gaming something that doesn't go together well

Stupid thing to say, seeing you don't have one and can't have an opinion on it
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post #12 of 20
11/30/04 at 10:02pm
I just played 2 maps in Unreal Tournament 2004 with all the settings on the highest possible (the guy said "holy sh**!") and it only stuttered like twice. And that's probably because I was using EAX Surround Sound on my USB Extigy. The 9200 does games. It does games just fine.
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post #13 of 20
11/30/04 at 10:03pm
you can play games on anything. if i can play RTW and Vice City and such on my 700m, you will have no problem on your 9200. Also, XPS2 will not be out by christmas.
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post #14 of 20
11/30/04 at 11:29pm
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Cool, I may wait to see the price of XPS2. By then 9200 price should have dropped some too. I hope XPS2 does come with PM, since its the graphics card the matter more than proc for games. Hopefully Dell does not charge an outrageous price for XPS2... The 9200 is priced very well.
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post #15 of 20
11/30/04 at 11:41pm
i just 3dmark03'ed mine and got 3400 on the dot running no tweaks or anything still generic dell origianl install with xphome
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post #16 of 20
11/30/04 at 11:42pm
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Originally Posted by SirBA
9200 and gaming something that doesn't go together well
I've noticed you have a bias against the 9200..
The 9200 games excellent!
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post #17 of 20
11/30/04 at 11:44pm
yeah hes deff against it cause either he dosent like how it looks, dosnet want to fell that new machines are coming out and the 9100 he has got discontinued, or something
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post #18 of 20
12/1/04 at 11:23am
I think he's just concerned that his 9100 isn't super amazing anymore...One of those overcompensating for feared inadequacy thing.

Anyhoo.

Gaming is great. It's probably as good as a desktop computer purchased a year ago. I think it'll run games well for at least another 2-3 years... Since all the intensive new FPS games will probably just be based on the HL2 engine, and the 9700 does pretty well for itself on that engine.

And the screen is gorgeous. Since HL2 can run 1440 x 900 admirably (~25-30 fps), I just kind of sat there in awe for awhile.

Then again, it couldn't run 3dMark05 worth a poo poo. I got something like 1200 marks and ran everything about 2-8 fps. So uh, let's hope games don't get that advanced graphically anytime soon...And if they do quicker than I expect, that Dell offers a 256 MB upgrade.

But I think I9200 owners will be pleased. I this computer.
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post #19 of 20
12/1/04 at 1:49pm
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I don't think 9200 can be upgraded. It would be nice if Dell did offer an optional 256MB card. How well does it run Doom3? For the next year or so, most of the bigger FPS will prob use Doom3 or HL2 engine.
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post #20 of 20
12/1/04 at 1:54pm
I don't have Doom 3...But I'd assume that it wouldn't run it as well as Half Life, since its OpenGL based. Probably servicable but not amazing.
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