Terrible General Gaming Performance.

My Dell Xps M1710 has the following specs:

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7400 Processor (2.16GHz,667MHz,4MB L2 cache)

2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]

160GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive

512MB DDR3 nVidia® GeForce™ Go 7950 GTX graphics card

Vista Installed

I recently played the Crysis demo and the performance was terrible. I was told that this notebook would run it well at med-high settings, but it struggles even at med-low. Anything I can do to improve performance? Also, can I not overclock?

Thanks

 

Try and turn wireless off.
Make sure you are exited out of the windows sidebar.
Switch your battery performance to "high performance".
Try defragmenting your disk.

Let me know how this works.

 

Thanks for the advice, but what difference would turning the wireless off make?

 

What resolution are you running it at? You may also want to look at the latest drivers at laptopvideo2go

 

old graphics driver, too many processes running that is eating up your ram, defragment hard drive (altho this will most likely help with loading times only)

 

Crysis is a beast of a game. I have to run med-low settings on my 1520 (8600GT) to get any framerates above 30. Installing the newest drivers from laptopvideo2go and overclocking will definitely help.

 

Kill every not essential apps, like virus scanner...it can eat the resources and slow everything.

Other than that an M1710 should handle Crysis at least as good as a 1520, if not better.

 

Try out the Dx9 version

As a matter of fact, Its likely that its near to impossible because i ran the M1730 everything at medium and the performance was smooth and great. It has dual graphics cards while 1710 doesnt.

 

It will run Medium, nothing high. My M90 can run all medium at 1200x800 res.

 

I'm not sure if turning off the wi-fi will do anything, but it might. Also, trying running the game ib compatibility mode for XP service pack 2.

 

So you won't be intertupted while tweaking your vidcard.

 

yeah turning off the wifi helps free the proN resource section of your computer!!

 

I tried all the suggestions on my 1520 and am still getting crappy performance....I think it's the graphics card. Are there any OFFICIAL drivers that are better than what came stock with my comp (7.15.11.143, 6/14/2007)????

 

I had really bad performance when i got my 1520 w/ vista 32bit, default Dell configuration. I did a 3dmark for comparison of other 1520 setups like mine and I was scoring like I had a 8400m GS.

I just wiped it and installed XP and Vista 64bit, both new OS's had no performance issues. Dell has(at least mine)a really bad out of the box performance config that must be retweaked or better yet wiped.

 

Seconded; are there any newer/better drivers? And does anyone know what ForceWare version these drivers are?

I got a 3261 on 3dmark06 with these drivers.

 

Try the 169.01 with modded inf. (laptopvideo2go?) This bumped my 1520 to over 3400 in 3dmark06 and made Crysis playable on medium settings.

T7100 2gb ram 8600m GT 256 no overclocks