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Gaming/Video Performance - Inpsiron E6500
I recently purchased an Inspiron E6500 for business use and included the nVidia 160M video card option. The laptop has a dual core CPU and 4 gigs of Ram running Windows XP.
I've been primarily testing the game performance with World of Warcraft after reading some reviews that said you could get an acceptable framerate but I'm not having much luck. I've tried updating all the drivers/BIOS but game performance even with all the settings turned down and running in an 800X600 window is still really, really choppy.
I knew the laptop wouldn't be a gaming powerhouse and that's not the primary reason I bought it, but at the same time I had hoped to at least be somewhat more playable than it is considering the hardware specs. I've read a bit about installing video drivers aimed at the gaming cards from places like laptopvideo2go and didn't really see enough of a performance increase to make the game playable. I don't believe it's an internet connectivity issue as I'm using the same router for my desktop and laptop and the desktop is just fine.
For WoW players specifically who have had success with an E6500...whatv video/audio settings are you using? And is there something I missing or not installing or not configuring correctly for gaming in general?
Again I know it's not a gaming-specific laptop but I was hoping to at least be able to kill some time with some WoW when I travel for business.
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April 16th, 2009 12:00
8600M GT 9300M GS NVS 160M Chip Core G84M G98M G98M Memory Type DDR2/GDDR3 GDDR3 GDDR3 Stream Processor 32 8 8 Core Speed 475 MHz 550 MHz 580 MHz Memory Speed 400/700 MHz 700 MHz 700 MHz Shader Speed 950 MHz 1400 MHz 1450 Mhz Max Bandwidth 12.8/22.4 GB/s 9.6 GB/S 11.2 GB/s Memory Bus Width 128-bit 64-bit 64-bit Max Memory 512 MB 256 MB 256 MB Current Consumption 20 W 13 W 12 Wrequired ram in reality.
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April 16th, 2009 13:00
Yeah the more I read about the 160M the more I realize that it's probably just not a good tool for the job. Unfortunately with work I didn't have the option of ordering an XPS system so I'm trying to make the best of it.
I grabbed the latest drivers from laptopvideo2go and got those installed. I have 4 gigs of RAM.
I saw some suggestions to try WoW in OpenGL mode as well via a switch in the shortcut so I can see if that helps. I'll see how much the tweaks helped and see if I can at least get a playable framerate for a little questing or at least some fishing to pass the time.
Thanks for the suggestions and any other tweaks/tips!