asus g1s-a1 with crysis and bioshock

im bout to buy the asus g1s-a1. and i've seen vids online that have played it MAX settings w/o lag. and im also wonderin how good this comp (wit the updates) will play crysis. cuz it would be nice to play it at least on high

 

Most people play it at 1280x800 at med settings + some high ones. The 8600m gt is underpowered for these types of games.

 

If you play bioshock with all settings high at 1280x800, you will get avg of 20-25fps. At least thats what I got with 163.44 drivers back when it first came out.

 

i can play crysis with all settings at high except shaders and shadows at low at 1280x800 with average of mid-high 20's fps. i am using the 169.09 drivers.

 

I play bioshock with everything maxed on my G1S and its beautiful.

 

please tell me how you are running at a 20 fps with high settings on crysis...i can barely run the game on low with 1024 x 768...i get 5 fps....please help me i have the same laptop as you...i have everything upgraded i dont get it ...i even downloaded the 169.09 drivers...it doesnt help

 

A stock G1S is too weak for either of these games, especially Crysis.

With a bit of overclocking however, you could get Bioshock running at 1280x800 with high settings at a respectable framerate. About 30fps.

 

He isn't.
You just didn't aware that your laptop is a Dell
Mine,stock can run crysis high except shaders and shadows at 25 FPS(except ice stages) .
Bioshock run fine to.

 

The G1S is VERY overclockable !!
Especially the 8600M G GDDR3, you can go HIGH in overclocking
Overclock a bit and you can play Bioshock maxed out (overclock higher and you might play crysis on high settings ^^)

 

agree with you , got a G1S myself , but this isn't necessary to play this game...can be played good with stock frequency.

 

Ugh, I seem to be one of the unlucky ones. Crysis runs between 15-25 fps with all medium and 800x600 for me. I also seem to get lower 3dmark scores than everyone else. I'm running the latest driver and I've tried every fix I've come across.

 

hmm im playing on very high settings, just have to change the shaders and shadow to low and it will work flawlessly and yes its on 1680x1050.

 

I run Crysis on a G1S wit the T7500 + 3 GB ram + 8600 GDDR.

It will run more or less flawless in 1024 and the rest on medium. Overclocking will bring up the resolution and give high.

expect 20-30 fps.

Now over clocked it to
520 / 760 with ATI tools

I run Crysis at 1680*1050 flawlessly, all options medium, shaders low. shadows medium. FPS 20-30 steady in all action. OC temp 80-90

Did you remember to remove all bloat-ware from the laptop? - if its factory vista it packs a lot of programs you dont need.

 

hmm? i didnt overclock my GPU but i can play all on very high except shaders (low) and shadow (low or medium ) on 1680x1050.

 

Hmm maybe because you run 169.25 im running 169.09

I tried to get the 169.25 to install, but it didnt want me to- il try again. Oh and i also got a snacky photo for ya!

This is the cover over the CPU / 8600 card, i drilled some holes in it and removed some of the tape that covers the air vent. My laptop is now running 580/780 at 65c idle, 85c load. Normal load no fan noise.

 

that would void the warranty so obviously..

ASUS: hi how can i help u?
ME: I cant turn on my notebook after i dropped my notebook i wanna send it for warranty.
ASUS: let me take a look
ASUS: what these holes?
ME: OH RIGHT! forgot to tell u it droped on some nails which were evenly spaced on my floor..

lol..id rather keep my warranty

 

all i done is drill holes in the plastic above the cooling fan. It only allow more air to enter. I see no reason for why it should break the warranty?

 

You shouldn't be modify/change anything that is not supposed to be modified/changed ie. drilling holes. Even if technically it's not that big a deal, Asus can still come after you so they don't have to spend money and put the blame on you.

 

I also think this void warranty...
Make modifications on your notebook = lose warranty

 

yea..if any parts requires warranty they could say that its the drilling that caused the problem and therefore no warranty..they save money too

 

Irathi: don't sweat it, and you other guys give the guy a break, he is just being resourceful. cooling is what it's all about. maybe asus should take some lessons from this guy, if he's oc'ing that well he obviously has something going for him. here is my cooling endeavor of a few yrs and going. in this rig my cpu runs at -10, thats 10 below 0. later

http://home.comcast.net/~fishnpilotscomputersite/wsb/html/view.cgi-home.html-.html

 

guaranteed those holes don't increase ventilation. Those holes disrupt the airflow intended in the laptop. If they helped at all, laptops would come with holes.

 

i dont know how you guys can play on high or very high on crysis with the stock settings, ive tried updating the drivers, which helped a bit and even overclocked a bit and the best i could do was get 17-25 fps in medium, man this sux
EDIT: nvm just oc:ed again, runs every thing max except shaders, i get about 17-37 depending where i am

 

Hey mate that is bull****! If you open up the G1S you will notice there is TAPE over the only holes that air can enter. The way the G1S is designed now the fan has to both suck in and blow out air through the same hole!

If you hold your hand behind the laptop and feel the air there ITS HOT LIKE HELL! After removing this and drilling that lid i can now feel "cool" air behind and i can feel the suction of air into the laptop through the holes. After i over clocked my laptop to 580/780 im STILL 10 C LOWER then what i had before! Also keep in mind that with 1 entry/exit for the air, the hot air will blow out and it will also be sucked back in. An efficient fan should have cold air coming in and hot air going out in different directions. Thats what i have achieved.

So please stop the bull****...

And guys, if you worry that much about a warranty you shouldnt be OC' anything, because, that aint healthy for your warranty either.. If i should ever need the warranty it would most likely mean the laptop is so OLD that i would rather buy a new one! And if i really need this i could just borrow a lid from a friend or ask asus for a new lid before i send it back for repairs...

Thank you

And for the people who has done their homework, they know that the G2S runs the same card with a higher clock mainly because it has better cooling (more space around it). Asus did not design the G1S good enough, they have not given it sufficient cooling. Im trying to fix this with very simple tools doing minimum modifications.

ive now run 3dmark06 and i got 4 600 points with 580/780

 

kool what did u use to make this drills ??? , u r genius man ... make a thread and explain this ... this is realy cool i thought about once ... cheers

bye

 

I've respect what you've done here...

But I OC'd my G1S-A1 to 575-780 and I got 4618 3dMark06 points!

But in practice when overclocked I gain like 4 fps on Crysis, so I concluded that it's not worth the effort.

 

I won't believe those of you who say you can play Bioshock or Crysis all maxed out, on a stock G1S-A1, at high resolution, until I see some videos to prove it.

The G1S is a respectable laptop - I know because I own one - but I doubt it will be capable of playing games one year from now, since it already struggles to play the most current ones.

I like what you've done to your G1S irathi! I might try that too

 

Alright explenation will be coming up on this thread;

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=146088

simply because there i can put it on the front page and keep it updated.

 

LOL I have the laptop posted in my signature with an 8600M GS DDR2 Ram and I can run Bioshock on all High settings at a resolution of 1280 X 800. Bioshock is a very well coded game.

Crysis on the other hand I can barely get it past 15 Fps on low settings at a 1024 x 768 resolution. Its playable but its pointless without the eye candy. The game in my opinion does not do to much extra over other FPS I have played.

I use stock Asus drivers, version 101.34. I overclock my card to speeds of 650 core and 550 memory.

I shut off all other stupid processes even the Antivirus because it takes enough resources and I can play these games.

The G1s should be more than capable. Don't listen to anyone's bull crap. Most of them are boutique gamers and unless they get like 100 fps the game and hardware automatically suck.

Ps: I would like to note one thing about drivers. nVidia uses something called the Unified Driver Architecture. It's meant for people to able to implement one driver for all there nVidia components. It also feature one other advantage. Every release of a driver is not so much different from that of a previous driver. They improve some bugs add a couple of lines of code to take care of different situations that were missed in the last update and so on. Really you do not get any true performance increase using drivers not meant for your card. With the proper OC'ing tools you can actually get substantial improvements but the drivers make a minimal difference. As a matter of a fact I got worse performance with 160 series drivers than 100 series drivers. So stick to the stock drivers they actually work better if properly used.