M1530 1680 x 1050 Screen - 20-30% gaming performance increase tip

This is a performance tweak tip for M1530 owners with a 1680 x 1050 resolution screen. Forgive me if this has already been posted but another forum member asked me in another post and I thought I would share with everyone.

I didn’t buy this laptop just for games but do find that the larger screen resolution does stress the 8600 graphic card and as we know running at anything less than native resolution looks rubbish. However I was told a tip by a friend that essentially allows you to run at lower resolutions, but still maintain the native detail.

To keep the native resolution you need to tell the graphic card not scale when selecting a non-native screen setting. This is done in the Nvidia Control Panel, under change flat panel scaling, simply choose the option ‘Do not Scale’. What this means is when I select a smaller resolution (say1400x800) the screen isn’t stretched, it’s simply shown smaller (approx 1inch of black border) but still at the native resolution.

There is no such thing as a free lunch and there isn’t a miracle cure, clearly I am sacrificing about 1 inch of screen, however the performance benefits are quite surprising. Last night I did a test with Team Fortress 2, at 1680 x 1050 setting (with a few shiny options on) I was getting around 19-30 FPS. When I changed to 1400x800 (with no scaling set in the Nvidia Panel) I was getting 25-55 FPS.

This won't be to everyones taste, but hopefully some will be happy with compromise.

 

thats of course what a lot of people do when gaming. playing a decent game in native resolution is very demanding, and only a few users here have really good graphics cards in their notebooks ( 8700mgt and up).

all the other people will have to play the games in lower resolutions. but displaying a non-native resolution can cause blurry images.

see this link a wikipedia , and you´ll see the difference in raw pixels and percentages between the different resolutions :

standard resolutions :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SXGA

widescreen :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSXGA+

if you just look at the differences between the resolutions in percent, you will be able to guess the how much better a gameplay in lower resolution will be. roughly.

 

nice tip out there

 

bump for a nice tip.