78 Degrees 8600M GT Fallout 3 new drivers from dell

I just updated my video card drivers to 176.44 for the M1530 today, and have got an excellent 3d mark06 basic score of 4758.

Anyway i was playing fallout three on medium, with all draw distances high + 2 shadows + bloom at 800X600 and when i exited to check the temps, it was at 78 degrees C. I was only playing for 5 minutes and it got THAT hot! Im used to 72 being the maximum temp i see, how does this happen!

I have not overclocked or ANYTHING and i am on BIOS A09

 

I dont really know how it got that hot, but I thought that temp was normal for the 8 series GPU?

And you can use rivatuner so you wont have to alt tab the game to check the temp (shows up on the upper left hand corner of the screen)

 

Why are you playng with so low settings?
I'm playng it 1280x800 everything set to High and I have very rarely some fps drop (only on VATS screen anyway).

78 degrees however is normal. My temps reach 90 when playng something massive.

 

what he said, I also have a m1530 and playing all on high (some UltraHigh) and 1280 x 800 with rarely some stuttering.

 

a *good* frame rate is a very subjective term.

 

78 Degrees is well below the max threshold the card is capable of. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Now, if you want to talk about hot, my previous system's GPU (go7800gtx) would frequently reach temps of >110 degrees C!! Now that was a great system. Nothing like frying some eggs and playing games at the same tiime.

 

I have 82-85 C max.. For me it is too much. But the card should live with it, though probably not that long as it could. High temperatures does shorten the life of the components.
Now, if GPU is 82C then how hot is the memory ?

 

Wierd, the game is running more poorly now, i just updated to bios A11

 

What driver are you guys using?

 

176.44

Im interested to know how people get playable FPS at all high at 1200X resolution on the M1530...

AKuma is using 177.72, if thats what laptop video to go is, i would suspect that is why he is getting better performances... Otherwise my computer is a dud, as i have a .6GHz faster CPU and .5 Gig more ram than him... and im running fallout off a 7200RPM external hard drive, which is faster than my internal 5600 RPMM

 

Unless you're running off an eSATA drive, you'll get horrible performance over USB/Firewire. An internal 4200 RPM drive will perform better than a 7200 RPM USB external.

 

Hmm> USB not fast eh? That makes no sense though, cos I edit with High Definition footage. So anyway, i was editing on my internal 5600RPM and it was sluggish, using my external 7200RPM it was extreemely fast. So?

 

Haha! And I worry when mine hits 105C! 78C is right where it should operate at. It means its working hard.

 

what about the CPU, mines hitting 70-71. Its a Core 2 Duo t7800 (merom?) 2.6GHz???

 

also, when i play fallout 3 on these higher settings i get a massive slowdown heaps later on when im playing, its fairly good for the most part then it just goes crap and i have to exit the game...

 

My internal drive has a sustained average transfer rate of 72 MB/sec, 12.8 ms response.

Googling around, external drives max out at around 30 MB/s, with averages in the 20's, and about double the response time.

And you're running Fallout 3, a very system intensive game, and wondering why the performance is off?

 

Some t7500 hit 80C while heavy gaming.

 

Ok so I changed the game and installed it onto my C drive, the 5600RPM internal HDD, (from the 7200RPM) No performance increase AT ALL.

But maybe im being unreasonable, I essentially run the game with no AA or AF (i get the wierd vats problem if i do) then i run on 1280X800 with HDR lighting and on high, then tweaking it so all the draw distances are at maximum for everything except lighting and shadows, in fact i turn some of the shadow settings down.

I get minor stutter in Megaton, but out in the wasteland is where its most noticable. Any spin i make will drop to 10FPS when walking normally forward and shooting can go from 20-40FPS VATS still stutters but its no bother, cos it freezes time anyway.

Is this what is to be expected from my specs? (see sig)

 

I'd say yes, notebook GPUs are notoriously bad at high particle count scenes, and if the trailers were any indication of wasteland, it's a dusty, debris filled area that's likely to bring a mobile GPU down.

 

On my, m1530 i idle at 70c (high performance mode) and i start to worry when it gets to 110. what are you doing to make it run so cool? your processor is faster to, that should make it faster. if my hard drive it 7200 rpm instead of 5400 rpm will that effect the temperature very much?