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    My god it's full of stars!

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Clean, May 8, 2008.

  1. Clean

    Clean Notebook Guru

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    My new m9750.

    Beautiful.

    Awesome.

    CoD4 maxed out on WUXGA!

    Love it.

    :D
     
    Clean, May 8, 2008
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  2. HaloGod2007

    HaloGod2007 Notebook Virtuoso

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    post some pics!
     
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    Nirvana Notebook Prophet

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    that is amazing, I play cod4 under 1680x1050
     
    Nirvana, May 8, 2008
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  4. Prasad

    Prasad NBR Reviewer 1337 NBR Reviewer

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    Why !?!? Your lappy can easily play it maxed out at 1920x1200 !!!
     
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    I swear to God it felt laggy, not sure if it was related to my network connection or bad driver.
     
    Nirvana, May 8, 2008
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    That's crazy man.... I'm sure our laptops can run TWO or more instances of COD4 at that setting and still be ultra smooth @ 1920x1200 maxed ! Anyway, what driver are you using ? Try different ones... the latest 175.63 from LV2G! Also if you're playing online, it may be network latency, rather than bad performance from your computer.
     
    Prasad, May 9, 2008
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  7. ArmageddonAsh

    ArmageddonAsh Mangekyo Sharingan

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    i would so consider getting one, but it can only use old 2.13 processors and will not be upgradable to dual 8800m, which is ashame coz its a nice looking laptop, if they made it so you could use newer processors and 8800m's in it them i would be very interested in getting one.
     
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    Grey728 Notebook Evangelist

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    Really? I get ~25 fps (with v-sync enabled, I can't stand the tearing)

    Settings - 1280x800
    no AA
    All normal textures.
    Dual Card SLI enabled in-game.

    I 'believe' I have SLI enabled. I do turn on teh SLI graph indicator to see if it's on, but some games that don't use sli (FFXI online) show the graph even when it's disabled..

    I'm using drivers from laptopvideo2go v.174.93

    I WISH I could run this game in WUXGA (1920x1200) with everything maxed, but it just doesn't perform well =( Any help here is appreciated.
     
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  9. Clean

    Clean Notebook Guru

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    Have you enabled dual cards in CoD4 Graphics options aswell as in nVidia Control Panel?

    I use 174.16 driver - seems very stable so far and rocks out on my screen! ;)
     
    Clean, May 10, 2008
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    V-sync may be your problem, it usually kills framerates.

    I run it at 1920 x 1200 maxed (except AA) offline, a little less online.
    It only slows down if you try to make it (like blow up 5 cars while spinning around and unloading a machine gun or something)
     
    mjl2142, May 10, 2008
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