Asus G1S and Age of Conan performance problem

hello. i have an asus g1s and been waiting for AOC for a long time. but i have serious fps problems.
first i tried with medium default settings (0xAA, no bloom, no grass, DX9) and i get 15-35 fps.
than i tried with low settings and guess what, i get the same fps. after hours of forum trip i saw many people play the game with better performance althought their notebooks are worse than mine.
so if anyone else with a similar notebook plays this game with decent performance could you please direct me to the right way?

my specs:
vista 32-bit sp1
core2duo T7500 2.2 ghz
2gb ram
256MB nvidia 8600m GT(driver ver: 169.09)
160gb hdd

since i am using vista i was thinking maybe my memory is not enough and i can upgrade to 4GB ram. can i install vista 64-bit on this computer to utilize 4gb ram? do you think it will improve my performance?

thanks in advance.

 

Do you have the latest graphic drivers? That will definitely make or break you when it comes to AoC.

Go under Nvidia Control Panel and select performance to help your FPS.

Also if your running an old partition, a fresh reformat never hurts incase you have spyware, etc.

P.S. Defrag & ScanDisk are your friend.

 

right before i bought the game i formatted my hdd and deleted all the asus utilities.
there is couple more drivers after mine on laptopvideo2go. i could try a newer one.

 

Have you disabled Shadows? That will help a ton.

 

yes shadows disabled and water reflections off too.
but for some reason water reflection option becomes enabled sometimes. i turn it off everytime i launch the game.

 

As with any MMO, their code at release will be buggy, if all the above suggestions are done and nothing helps, I would recommend waiting for the first few patch cycles...or upgrading your computer.

 

thanks for the replies. after yesterday`s update there is a significant fps upgrade. i guess Firecrak was right. the problem is not my hardware, it is the game`s optimization.

 

I have a problem with AoC though, the particle settings never appear in the video menu.

 

i highly doubt the makers of these extremely high quality high speed games designed them to work on laptops with poor cooling

 

I have a G1S and Age of Conan as well... I'm pretty disappointed with it's performance. Being only 1 year old I figured it would have no problems running AoC... but even on the lowest graphics setting the game will drop to 8fps in some areas (like the town in the beginning).

I haven't tried overclocking my G1S yet... I've never done any overclocking... maybe that will be the answer... I'm guessing it's not possible to upgrade the graphics card.

Let me know if you find a solutions that works.
thanks,
Mike

 

I bet lowering the resolution would improve performance, but switching to a non-widescreen ratio makes the image stretch (I'm assuming) and I don't want the game to look distorted. Regardless, has anyone had luck switching to a different resolution?

 

AoC is a very graphics intensive game, similar to Crysis. IMO, to run the game with sufficient fps and smoothness, you'll need at least an 8700m GT GPU or a highly overclocked 8600m GT GDDR3 GPU.

 

chucky, try this from the official AoC forums:
http://forums-us.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=36047

It worked well for me, which I describe here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=146088&page=45