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    TM4501WLMI and CounterStrike Source

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by slofire, Oct 14, 2004.

  1. slofire

    slofire Notebook Enthusiast

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    Might be a stupid question, but important for me since i play this game and help run a community. Has anyone tried playing it yet on the 4501 and if you have what is the frame rate on it like?

    thanks, [ :)]
     
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  2. Venombite

    Venombite Notebook Virtuoso

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    You should be able to use different drivers for your notebook. Especially with the Omega Drivers on the market, as well as the ATI Modder. This Modder allows for the drivers from the ATI site to be used on ATI Mobility GPU's.

    ATI Mobility Modder:
    http://www.driverheaven.net/patje/

    ATI Omega Drivers:
    http://www.omegadrivers.net/

    The "new" ATI drivers (4.8 and up, currently at 4.10) has the ATI Catalyst Control Center, this is a utility to allow for overclocking your card.

    http://www.atitech.ca/products/catalystcontrolcenter/index.html

    -Vb-
     
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    Venombite Notebook Virtuoso

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    I haven't run this game, but since the unit has an ATI 9700 GPU, it should perform fairly well. It plays Doom 3 decently and that was an OpenGL game (not ATI's strongest area), so with CS Source, supposedly using the HL2 engine, is based on DirectX and this is where ATI shines.

    -Vb-
     
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    slofire Notebook Enthusiast

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    Now would I be able to use the ATi drivers or are there special notebook drivers i would have to get from acer....i really do like keeping my gfx drivers as updated as they can possibly be
     
    slofire, Oct 14, 2004
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