New Asus g1 owner question.

I just purchased an asus g1 today, I should get it next week with any luck, hopefully with no dead pixels ).Anyways are the speakers really that bad, I hate headphones but it's not too big of a deal I will buy some external usb speakers.Also what kind of performance can I expect to get in oblivion and fear?Thanks for any help.

 

As for the speakers, what I have found is that at their default setting they do sound rather tinny, I've heard worse in laptops. However if you change the equalize setting to "powerful" they actually sound pretty decent for laptop speakers. (note, in Vista I always got popping and crackling, no prob since going back to xp)

As for oblivion or fear, I only played the fear demo and you have to tweak some of the settings but get pretty decent performance. (can't run at full native resolution basically)

 

I think most people complain about the G1's speakers because they actually project out the sides rather than forward. This does create a small "dead zone" directly in front of the computer. It's not a big deal to me but I also spend most of the time with headphones on.

As far as game performance I haven't loaded up Oblivion but I play Vanguard on it and am very satisfied with the performance. I would assume Oblivion would play just fine on it.

 

Well, just to give you a clue of what I'm getting with my G1 and Oblivion with the following settings (according to AnandTech's article) and the XTreme-G Mobileforce XP Video Drivers (version 9420)

Running at 1280x800 (widescreen) I get about 30 FPS

Texture Size Large
Tree Fade 100%
Actor Fade 100%
Item Fade 66%
Object Fade 90%
Grass Distance 50%
View Distance 100%
Distant Land On
Distant Buildings On
Distant Trees On
Interior Shadows 95%
Exterior Shadows 85%
Self Shadows On
Shadows on Grass On
Tree Canopy Shadows On
Shadow Filtering High
Specular Distance 100%
HDR Lighting On
Bloom Lighting Off
Water Detail High
Water Reflections On
Water Ripples On
Window Reflections On
Blood Decals High
Anti-aliasing Off

Cheers!
RayanMX

 

Hehe pretty old post, in fact i think he listed his G1 for sale a while ago. Guess he didn't like it.

 

He did once say:
"Welcome to the club, enjoy the best notebook ever made."
in a new G1 owner thread. maybe he wants the G1s?

 

I think he wants one of those high end dells....the MX something. Why I don't know

 

DING DING DING!!!!

You got that right AlexOnFyre!!!

I upgraded my G1 to a brand new G1S!!! LOL

I was pretty happy with the G1 and didn't have plans to upgrade just yet, but a friend of mine wanted my G1 soooo bad that he paid me right there on the spot $1500 for it even though I recommended him to go online and get a new G1S instead, he insisted so much that I didn't have other option but to let it go... (seriously!)

Happy holidays!
RayanMX