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    Assassins Creed on 8600m GS GDDR3

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by theneighborrkid, Apr 14, 2009.

  1. theneighborrkid

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    Got my LG P300 today, was wondering if there was any way to boost performance on this game. L4D/TF2 run fine on high/medium but AC only runs at 25 FPS all low 800 x 600. Have newest drivers, T8100, 4GB RAM, Vista Business 64 bit, 8600m GS GDDR3...
     
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    game is up to date too ? ....
     
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    It is off steam so I would imagine so.
     
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    Tweak around with your setting in the nvidia control panel. Experiment with different graphics card drivers. Overclock your GPU. Buy a laptop cooler.
     
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    you need to run in dx9 mode. Navigate to the steam folders and then the assissins creed .exe folder there should be a shortcut for both dx9 and dx10. send dx9 shortcut to the desktop then run from there. Assissins Creed is demanding game graphically and Dx10 just taxes the hardware with no noticeable enhancements.
     
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    Don't really want to overclock and the latest overclockable driver for the p300 was 169.04 which is pretty old...I'll try the running in DX9 and see if that helps. thanks guys

    Couldn't get it to overclock and dx9 didn't seem to help much...
     
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    Any recommendation on a driver or is the official nVidia one the best?
     
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    178.48 from nvidia are the best drivers and official too. But again Assassin's Creed, like many modern games software when developed and released, are 2 years advanced over current hardware, so in order to see it run how it was envisioned with full graphics settings enabled you'll have to get a computer released almost 2 years after Assissin's Creed was released. Your current card I believe is 128 bit, and the game taxes my 9700m gts 256 bit card until I change to Dx9 mode.
     
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    It is odd to me because Gears of War seems to be around 25 fps average on high but Assassins Creed barely does that on all low... Going to test COD4 soon, and it is also amazing that it only plays tf2 on medium and yet an ATI 3200 IGP can do it on high...
     
    theneighborrkid, Apr 15, 2009
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    assassin creed seems to be very choosy with its drivers
    when i used it with 169.04 i couldnt play it [assed 800x600
    but when i switched to dox's 182.05 - man, it was like i had a new computer! with no o/c o could play it at 1280x800 low setting (still looks v good) and with o/c to 650mhz gpu i could play it at 1440x900 low

    try doxs 182.05 or his newest one in laptopvideo2go. its like owning a new card for our aging 8600gs'

    cheers
     
    trvelbug, Apr 15, 2009
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