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Horrible Battlefield 1942/DC performance on XPS2

post #1 of 17
4/25/05 at 12:07pm
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Don't get me wrong. This thing is not a slug. In HL2 this thing rocks, but when I play Battlefield (particularly Desert Combat mod), this thing is a pig. I get tons of issues with this and my desktop 6600GT in this game. Besides low framerates, I find that both cards don't render all the details I was used to with my 9800Pro. I get shot by people that are out of my viewing range. I can't see enemies on the ground if I fly too high (but with my ATI cards I had much greater range). I have view distance max'd and am completely baffled by the piss-poor quality of the graphics. Is BFV just as bad with nVidia cards as BF1942? I'm using the latest forceware drivers. Is there an older driver that performs with better quality? I hope Dell offers the M28pro as an upgrade/sidegrade.
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post #2 of 17
4/25/05 at 12:17pm
odd

your using the 76.50 drivers? is your quickset set to max performance?
Im thinking their other issues involved
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post #3 of 17
4/25/05 at 12:24pm
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Originally Posted by Gantua
odd

your using the 76.50 drivers? is your quickset set to max performance?
Im thinking their other issues involved
Crap, I just remembered that my vidcard settings are at max performance which MAY solve my quality issue, but that only magnifies the sh!tty fps.
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post #4 of 17
4/25/05 at 12:40pm
run 3DMark'05 and post your score here
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post #5 of 17
4/25/05 at 12:52pm
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I'm scoring 5100 to 5200 on average.
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post #6 of 17
4/25/05 at 12:56pm
thats very good... weird that you are having that problem...
I'm going to install it this afternoon on my lapy to see if I get the same problem..
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post #7 of 17
4/25/05 at 1:09pm
Check the settings for Performance(3d) in the Clock Frequency area of the drivers. Clock on manual overclocking, then Performace (3d), then on the load defaults button.. if it's like mine, it was underclocking the video card memory something fierce (i9300 w/6800).

I'm running the 76.50's and played battlefield all weekend on my laptop (lan party).


- Spuds
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post #8 of 17
4/25/05 at 1:42pm
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Try running the Urban Siege map in DC. I find this map shows the most flaws and the worst frame rates. I find a lot of disappearing and reappearing content while flying the helo's over the flag in the market (east of the tall tower). This also happened on my 6600GT.
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post #9 of 17
4/25/05 at 1:52pm
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Oh I forgot to mention. The sound sucks as well. Everything is out of tone and all the radio calls sound too high pitched. I wish Dell left the Intel Hi-Def sound processor instead of the crap they replaced it with.
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post #10 of 17
4/25/05 at 2:22pm
Well, I had issues playing Rainbow 6 Raven Shield. It played poorly.

When I called tech support for help, they told me the machine has problems playing older games. I reinstalled XP Pro and all the new drivers. This helped a bit, but problems remained. Needless to say, I returned the machine. The question remains, why does a smoking machine have problems playing old games such as BF and RvS? I was totally frustrated with the machine...I wanted the best, and was once again disappointed with Dell.
That is the last time Dell will get me. I am done. There will be other laptops with a 6800 Ultra in it. Then I will move up.
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post #11 of 17
4/25/05 at 2:48pm
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Originally Posted by Mutt
Oh I forgot to mention. The sound sucks as well. Everything is out of tone and all the radio calls sound too high pitched. I wish Dell left the Intel Hi-Def sound processor instead of the crap they replaced it with.
Meh, I think Intel High Definition audio is overrated. I figure if you really want good sound, and you have the money for an XPS Gen 2, you can surely afford a $74 Audigy 2 USB 2.0 external (w/ a remote). That gives you 7.1 channels and 24-bit quality. If you don't want the external, there's a PCMCIA audigy 2 as well, but it's $100.
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post #12 of 17
4/25/05 at 2:56pm
I orderd the PCMCIA audigy 2 for $85. Look on Amazon.
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post #13 of 17
4/25/05 at 2:59pm
I think the problem is that some game developers neglected to beta test and provide support for the upper level 6000 Nvidia cards. All of the major new games I have run great but RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (a known poorly coded game rushed to market for christmas) gets maybe 4-7 FPS on this machine for several minutes until jumping back up to about 40-50 FPS. So I don't think it's your machine; it's the games. I have no idea why this is happening.

But look on the bright side. Need for Speed 3 runs great on this machine even though it was released in 1996 or something and designed for windows 95. It runs on XP despite never being patched or upgraded for it. :P It has absolutely no idea what a 6800 ultra even is.
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post #14 of 17
4/25/05 at 3:00pm
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Originally Posted by |-007-|
Meh, I think Intel High Definition audio is overrated. I figure if you really want good sound, and you have the money for an XPS Gen 2, you can surely afford a $74 Audigy 2 USB 2.0 external (w/ a remote). That gives you 7.1 channels and 24-bit quality. If you don't want the external, there's a PCMCIA audigy 2 as well, but it's $100.
If you spent the money for an XPS Gen 2, surely you should expect better quality. Besides external soundcards sacrifice performance (something I already have an issue with). I will be getting an Echo Indigo internal card (key feature is the built in headphone amp and higher fidelity over Creative's alternative). I am not surprised that the sound is not the best. I am upset that the sound is the worst I have ever heard on a PC (barring those older than my 486 DX). Odd though that the sound out of the speakers is loads better than that coming out of the headphone jack. You can't run speakers at a LAN so that makes that headphone jack very important.
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post #15 of 17
4/25/05 at 4:00pm
Played RCT3 for 5 straight hours yesterday on max detail, 2x AA with constant frame rates of 40 fps +. And I would expect the same to be true for BF, Rainbow Six, Quake, you name it - anyone sending his laptop back because he can't get his drivers to work right is nuts. So it's not the games, it's the crappy setup. I have the 76.50 drivers and absolutely no issues - maybe you should get rid of some adware, spyware or some ridiculous firewalls and virus scanners in the background that don't do anything except making a system perfectly safe by making it unusuable to the user, thereby forcing the user to leave it switched off
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post #16 of 17
4/25/05 at 6:22pm
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Originally Posted by Quark999
Played RCT3 for 5 straight hours yesterday on max detail, 2x AA with constant frame rates of 40 fps +. And I would expect the same to be true for BF, Rainbow Six, Quake, you name it - anyone sending his laptop back because he can't get his drivers to work right is nuts. So it's not the games, it's the crappy setup. I have the 76.50 drivers and absolutely no issues - maybe you should get rid of some adware, spyware or some ridiculous firewalls and virus scanners in the background that don't do anything except making a system perfectly safe by making it unusuable to the user, thereby forcing the user to leave it switched off
You never get any slow down in RCT3? Wow, nice For the most part I don't get slow down, but there are sometimes where the game just seems to die. Not sure what causes it but it doesn't last for more than a few minutes. Developers said it'll be fixed in the expansion. Can't wait for that though. Looks like it'll be lots of fun.
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post #17 of 17
4/25/05 at 6:34pm
what settings exactly are you using to play dc? ie:Anti-aliasing and such
i use a 6800 gt and it plays fine on my desktop
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