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some games still choke on this

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ok im going through the motions, installing antivirus etc. ive played 2 games on it for a few minutes. hl2 and chronicles of riddick. hl2 runs crazy cool at 1920x1280, max settings. chronicles, which is a pretty intense game in its own right, more or less stutters on this machine. 1280x1060 with max settings is the only setting ive found barely acceptable. u think its a driver issue with the game.
doom 3 im sure will run great too, but im not loading that cause i dont like it.

well the clicking is getting less and less frequent and bothers me less too anyway. the light leakage is starting to get to me though. but not the sparkles, yet. these 2 issues (i hope no others crop up) shows to me average quality control on dell's end.

plus im begining to maybe understand why alienware and sager comp's have problems. if u mix such potent, heat generating, yet cutting edge components together, theres bound to be some trouble.

ill do a review tomorow maybe once i have tested all things out. btw does anyone know what the sd card reader is for. i think its for memory cards, but my dig. cams card is too big for it. wish they had a 7 in 1 card reader.
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btw does anyone know what the sd card reader is for. i think its for memory cards, but my dig. cams card is too big for it. wish they had a 7 in 1 card reader.


secure digital? mmmm old format
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Originally Posted by Bravo
btw does anyone know what the sd card reader is for. i think its for memory cards, but my dig. cams card is too big for it. wish they had a 7 in 1 card reader.


secure digital? mmmm old format
SD cards and MMC are the same form factor. It's a type of flash memory that many devices use. If you're dig cam card is too big, it's probably Compact flash, or less likely SmartMedia.
post #4 of 13
u have compact flash i guess
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did anyone try playing Rome total war on XPS2 ??? how does it look???
post #6 of 13
Well game engines is what its all about... ha
some games have really good engines like doom3... which isnt bad.... and it alows sweet graphics to be used with reasonable fps... I know the D3 engine toook along time to make... not sure about Chronicles

I have the xps2 and it plays everything amazing!
Love it!
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Originally Posted by Bravo
did anyone try playing Rome total war on XPS2 ??? how does it look???
Yes. Awesome!!!!! I'm very sleep deprived because of it.
post #8 of 13
Chronicles of Riddick is a great game, but needs serious horsepower to run smoothly. It's not very smooth on my desktop compared to other games I think because it was ported from the Xbox...not sure though.
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Originally Posted by Techhawk
Yes. Awesome!!!!! I'm very sleep deprived because of it.
But lags when you have 2000 cavalry running through 6000 peaseants but still a savory sight!
post #10 of 13
Rome total war is very CPU bound in large battles like that, I've tried some replays of very large battles I played on my old althon XP desktop (1.8ghz actual) and my newer Athlon 64 desktop (2.2ghz actual) using the same graphics card and there was a noticable decrease in slowdown on the Athlon 64 system.
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ive yet to see a system that can render such a scene smoothly I wont what the Total War group was using when making the game.
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my A64 2.2ghz is fine in battles up to about 20k men (tested it by setting up a 6 player skirmish with my army of 20 huge units cavalry against 5x AI armies consisting of 20 x huge units legionary first cohort). Archers seem to reduce this number though, especially ones with fire arrows.
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I am having problems running Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. I know this game is old, but I want to finish it before I start the 2nd one. When I first started the game it said it didnt support my GPU, so I am guessing that is my problem. I am getting 60FPS at SXGA+ resolution, but my guy moves SLOW. It is playable slow, but it really kills the experience, make alot of intricate things easy, and the easy things hard.
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