My wife has the Toshiba Satellite A75-S209 (with an added 512mb ram to make it 1024-128 = 896 for the onboard video card), and she loves the way the screen looks with the vibrant colors and clarity. She also really enjoys how reliable the notebook is. No crashes or other problems whatsoever.

However, I've recently gotten her into playing "UT2004" and "Gunz Online (The Duel)", but I've noticed that her frame rates in UT seem really low, when compared to how they used to be when I had the notebook. Now, I seem to remember getting upwards of around 600 in 3dmark03, and 3xxx in 3dmark01, but I can't find record anywhere of where I posted it. So, unfortunately I can only compare the current low scores to what I remember.

She currently gets:
400 in 3dmark03
2200 in 3dmark01

I've just recently installed Omega 4.12 drivers (I heard they run 9000IGP the best), as well as GART off of ATI's site (though I don't know if I installed it correctly). Doing this I was able to increase the 3dmark scores to 468 for 3dmark03, and 2268 for 3dmark01 (still seems low).

Now while I've heard that some people with the 9000IGP can't run 3dmark03 at all, I know everyone is getting better scores with 3dmark01 than I am. 3405 seems to be the norm for 3dmark01.

Any comments or help is appreciated.
-Ransom

it could be throttleing down due to heat, have you cleaned it recently?

Haven't cleaned it, but it's kept in a very dust free environment most of the time. It also never shuts down due to overheating while gaming (which I have a friend with the same notebook, and his used to shut down every few minutes due to overheating.

-Ransom

cleaning it would help in my opinion.

sorry, don't mean to resurrect a dead thread

my bad.