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    E1505 Video Card 945GM

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Bladez, Jun 24, 2006.

  1. Bladez

    Bladez Newbie

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    Does anyone know of an intel utility or another third party utility that will allow me to change settings of the onboard video? For one, in games, it seems that Anti-Aliasing is enabled.. and that doesn't make sense for an onboard card.

    I also am curious if I can use the Intel driver for it, or can I only use the Dell one?

    Hopefully someone may have info, I was going to try the Intel driver, but I don't wanna jump blindly if someone else has done so already. :) hehe
     
    Bladez, Jun 24, 2006
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  2. E1505Guy

    E1505Guy Notebook Consultant

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    You can use the Intel driver but you have to totally uninstall the Dell one, otherwise it won't let you use it (Intel one) for some reason. The Intel one has more goodies to change (at least on the version for the GMA 900 in my M140).

    You may have to do it the hard way and download the *.inf file from Intel and install using the found new hardware wizard if the above doesn't work.
     
    E1505Guy, Jun 25, 2006
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    jeffmd Notebook Evangelist

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    btw dont mistake anti aliesing with the hardware interpolating the screen (zooming it up and then bluring it to smooth the hard edges out) if your in a lower resolution then the screens native res.
     
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  4. Bladez

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    Well my thing is that I was playing Quake3 on the laptop and noticed that when I zoom in, there were barely any "jaggies". I assumed that because my FPS was really poor--poorer than it should have been in my opinion--that bad FPS + no "jaggies" meant that AA was enabled on the card. Normally I disable it on my desktop because it's a huge hit on my 1.4Ghz Athlon.

    I got the Intel drivers installed perfectly. I did notice however, that there is no way to control the AA from that control panel. :(

    Some of those settings were weird too, anyone know of a place that describes out what each setting does?
     
    Bladez, Jun 25, 2006
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