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    Studio XPS 16 and gaming

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by gateway44, Apr 15, 2009.

  1. gateway44

    gateway44 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've been reading through most of the xps studio 16 threads but can't seem to find any definite information regarding this laptops gaming ability. I saw one youtube video in which WoW took like 40 seconds to load...and then another in which crysis was supposedly running at decent settings. What are people's actual experiences with load times/lag/etc with this laptop?
     
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    I would call it a little more than medium gaming laptop.
    It has a pretty good GPU, Fine CPU, Fine Ram so I really think pretty capable to be a gaming notebook.
    However if it had an Nvidia card it would be much better for gaming ;)
     
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    It's a decent gaming machine really. As long as you stay away from power hungry games like Crysis and GTA4, it should arguably handle anything you throw at it with reasonable settings.

    The HD3670 is ATI's contender to the 9600M GT from Nvidia so it's a pretty decent GPU in the middle class.

    The only downside is that the XPS16 gets HOT when under stressful load. So proper measures should be taken to reduce the heat.
     
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  4. gateway44

    gateway44 Notebook Enthusiast

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    that's for the responses, have any of you played any games such as left 4 dead on this rig?
     
    gateway44, Apr 16, 2009
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    any of the new games should play fine on your sxps 16, you just might have to tweak the settings a bit, a good technique is to stay at a low resolution, but get all the effects. so your game will run smooth, but it will have the nice eye candy.

    of course it might be playable at a higher resolution, and with less effects, your call there :D ( by the way, i dont know if it happpens with ati, but reducing the shader quality a bit on my geforce 8600gt dramatically increases FPS )

    i say this from experience with the less powerful geforce 8600, witch can have trouble at higher resolutions.
     
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    Seriously the 16 can't handle crysis?
     
    DELL_boy, Apr 16, 2009
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    When I installed Crysis Warhead it automatically configured all the setting to "Gamer". The FPS are really bad (like 10 or so), but backing it off from there would increase the playability. My Studio XPS 16 can handle Crysis Warhead, just not as well as a computer with a desktop GPU.
     
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    Define "handle Crysis" many rigs can run Crysis, it's not that bad...

    It's once you want to turn on all the eye candy and jack the resolution that most rigs can't handle it anymore.

    The HD3670 certainly can run Crysis and most likely at medium/high settings, although I wouldn't bet on the highest that's for sure.
     
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    it can "handle" crysis at the settings crysis set itself at, but to make it more playable I would back a few of the settings to "Mainstream"
     
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    thanks for the info everyone!
     
    gateway44, Apr 16, 2009
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