Calling all Acer 5920 gamers! A little advice please:

I know there are a lot of different models out there today, but I've got one of the earlier laptops: 256mb 8600m GT DDR2 and 2GB RAM.

I don't overclock and have no intention of doing so, but I would like to find drivers that work well for our configuration. Acer's website seems to have ancient drivers, so I'm guessing laptopvideo2go is the way forward? I've tried 169.04 and was worried that they were quite hot. I'm now using 174.31 but I get some graphical glitches in games. I just don't know which to try without spending a whole day going through them all one by one, so I was wondering if people could share their experience / opinions on the different drivers. I'm preferably looking for something with low temperatures, good FPS and no BSODs etc.

Also, has anyone upgraded to 4GB RAM and found games performing better?

(And one more question - does GRID run well on the 5920?)

Thanks guys!

 

Well, if you won't run it at max quality settings its pretty playble.

I found all games quite goot exept crysis which run's smooth only in 1024 and medium settings. All other i ran on nearly maximum in 1280.

One thing bothers me, some games runs at good fps (30-40) but i notice some lags and slowdowns. For example i see such **** in hitman 4 and call of duty 4

 

Hi. Just joined.

I've been looking at getting a Laptop for a while and was going to go down the Dell route when I came across the Acer Gemstones. After nearly blowing £1100 on a T9300 6920G, I realised that I'm going to use it for gaming/Surfing/mailing when I'm stuck in airports/hotels/cafe's and at lunch during work.

So I've just bought a 5920G off ebay for £280.

I was about to start a thread about this but thankfully I'm the sort of bloke who searches forums before adding a thread that has already been covered.

Like Dannywanny asked - Is 2GB of RAM ok in this rig? I don't use Vista on my desktop but I hear it's pretty RAM hungry. I know Vista 32 bit will only see 3GB, but is it worth spending £60 to get a performance increase?

Games wise it would be Battlefield2/Half Life 2 /Orange box stuff. I'm not worried about playing older games as I know they'll run fine.

Please, any feedback would be gratefully received.

Cheers.

 

I'm also having 2 gb and such light games as you named will run perfect even with AA and AF enabled. Also i wanted to say that under XP games runs MUCH better and faster.

 

XP is the way to go unless you want to look at a pretty OS instead of playing games at the laptop's max speeds

 

I have 2 os. Vista for everything and xp for gaming

 

Spasiba vorob and Thanks bigozone for the replies.

I think I'll be installing XP at the earliest opportunity. I'm sure there's a guide on here somewhere - this place is packed with information.

 

Well, there's no need for a guide (unless you want to use a legal OS, and then you use the guide in my signature ). You only have to switch to compatibility mode (IDE, not AHCI) in the BIOS, set it to boot from CD... install the Windows, install the drivers in the right order... bla bla bla, that's it.

 

Thargoid Killer: I have Battlefield 2 and Half-Life 2 on my 5920. HL2 runs really well - I have max settings apart from AA and AF (they do seem to affect performance on my rig...). As for BF2, there is no native resolution option for 1280x800, but other than that I use max settings apart from AA. However, I do get a bit of stuttering now and then, although FPS is still high, and I thought 4GB RAM might help with this. Hence my question

Vorob: Is this the same sort of stuttering you get? Or is it your FPS dropping?

Does anybody know some good, recent drivers to use? For example, nVidia's latest release is the 175.19 ...

 

Are you running XP or Vista dannywanny?

 

Vista Home Premium, 32bit.