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[fuego_w8]

Hey guys. I've been looking through all the fixes and googling stuff for
days and have obtained some marginal improvements...but they are very
marginal. Wonderin if anyone could help me out or had some insight. I
recently got DA:O and Awakening and even though I am running it on an
msi laptop, and I feel like my laptop should run this game much more
smoothly than it does. I know my pc isn't the best but anyway I have...

Intel core i5 480m @ 2.66 ghz
4gb ddr3 ram
250gb 7200 rpm hdd
1gb ddr3 nvidia gt 425m vram
Win 7 home premium 64bit

Like
i said, yes it's a laptop, and yes maybe not all the best but I feel
like it should pull more than avg 25 frames on 1280x768, Graph Detail-
Med, Antialaising- 4x, Graph Texture- Med. I do regular defrags, disk
cleanups, virus/spyware scans, and keep my drivers updated. And I put
most of my data on an external hdd (not games though). Also, my game
will occasionally crash to desktop. Sometimes it takes a couple hours.
Sometimes 20 min.

So far I've adjusted/checked my paging file and
that doesn't really do anything as my system has never told me I was
low on ram. I've adjusted/looked into core affinity, which i found the
optimum/most stable to be cores 0,1,2 (my i5 has hyperthreading and thus
has 2 physical cores and 2 logical cores). When I run DA:O I also stop
as many (that I know are safe to) background services/apps/processes as I
can. And I've also ran DA:O in vista sp2 and xp sp3 compatibility modes
and they run basically the same. And I've done repatches and
reinstalls. With and without Awakening.

So the question is, for
my rig, on these settings is that fps normal? Cause it seems kinda low. I
also played Starcraft 2 and I run it with high detail, high texture,
low lights, and med shaders and shadow and usually average 30 fps. And with low shader, lights, shadow i get 40+ fps I've
looked into it but can't find much of use but my nvidia uses "optimus
technology" (biggest vga bs I've ever seen). I'm not an expert by any
means so I was wondering if there was an insight into possible issues or
fixes. Sorry about the long post I just didn't want anyone who would
answer suggest something and me reply "tried that".

[Gorath Alpha]

Like any "20" card from nVIDIA, all you have is a glorified business card that is optimized for charts, graphs, presentations, and spreadsheets, not for games. The bottom end to use as a beginner to games, not playing them at all often would be a "35" or "40" card. With one of those, you could have had medium quality images, medium resolution screens, and decent frame rates.

nVIDIA has been all over the map with numbering since abandoning their previous scheme following the second run of the 8n00 cards (renamed as 9n00s, and moved to a thinner wafer), it is easier to look at the "GTS" and GTX" prefixes, which have been somewhat less variable (not completely, though).  A GTS is in the middle of Mainline now, when it formerly was more commonly at the upper end of that class.  GTXs are both the high end and the very top of Medium these days. 

You needed to research your purchase better if gaming was what you wanted it for, sorry (no, you are unlikely to be lucky enough to have anywhere you can go with that machine to bring it forward from business grade to gaming grade).

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 15 juillet 2011 - 08:29 .

[fuego_w8]

I didn't buy it for gaming but I was hoping when I bought it that would be able to handle some gaming. Oh well. You live, you learn.