Would any of you guys know why an Asus G1 would get 11 fps in half-life 2?

I'm on windows 7 Professional x86


It's a G1 from 4 years ago (Core2Duo T7200 2ghz, 2gigs of ram, Geforce Go 7700..some 100 gig hdd)


It ran fine on XP and I can't really try to dual boot XP to check and see if it's windows 7 being weird because when I try to shrink my current partition 7 only lets me shrink it by 9 GB...and I don't think that's enough for XP.


Anyway I've tried various drivers (the vista ones on Asus's website, the 179.67 nvidia drivers from windows update, Dox's optimized ones from laptop2go) and there's no change in fps at 1680x1050 (the laptop's native resolution)

If I drop the resolution down to 720x480 or something it'll go up to 40fps but still...this computer shouldn't run half-life 2 that badly. (Nor for that matter HL2 Ep 2..which is what HL2's source engine was updated to. At worst it got 30fps for HL2 Ep2 with high settings on Windows XP way back when).

Changing the detail settings doesn't help improve performance much either.

It's weird.


Could there be some power setting on 7 that's downclocking the video card (or the processor too I guess)? Or am I just out of luck?

 

My asus G1 would run borderlands really slow unless i lowered the resolution to something like 720x480 too. I just gave up thinking the card was pretty old.. and it is !

 

Yeah.

But HL2 is older.

oh well. I managed to dual boot with XP anyway and it still won't work right (got maybe 5 more fps..but 16-20ish is not playable at native resolution. and 40 at the lowest 16:10 well...that's playable but really disappointing).


I'm just gonna blame the source engine update. That and the computer being 4 years old.



whelp. Looks like I may need to update my laptop.

Damn though. I was really trying to hold out until they got a powerful switchable graphics laptop. You know. One using a 360m or something as the vid card (instead of a 310 or 330).