Cant my laptop play CSS on HIGH or DX2?! (7400 go)

Can anyone tell me if my laptop should be able to handle DX2 or BF2 ?

DX2 runs terribly I have no idea why, CSS runs at around 30 FPS and this is on med settings, drivers are up to date as well as spyware and virus definitions..

Laptop is a C2Z/B:

Manufacturer:
Sony Corporation - Laptop - (Model: VGN-C2Z/B)
Processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.7GHz
Memory:
2046MB RAM
Hard Drive:
110 GB
Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400


Ive tried tweaking the settings in the nivida panel to performance only and no ai or aa on but still the same bad fps....

Any ideas please?!

 

Try different drivers? Go7400 won't tear through BF2, but it will run at medium-ish settings without any hiccups. Check out my Go7400 screenshot thread, to give you an idea of what both me and a few other members can get out of it in modern games. I've never overclocked mine, so it's all taken at stock, and the drivers I used for the games testing are listed somewhere in there too.

Personally, I got 50-80fps out of CSS at 1024x768 at high settings. Also, as obvious as it sounds, you are playing while on AC and not battery power right?

 

Are you trying to run the aforementioned games at your LCD's native resolution? If so, that would explain the poor performance. You would be both pixel fillrate and memory bandwidth limited at your lappy's native resolution with the Geforce 7400 Go.

 

You should be able to run CSS at 1280x800 with high settings and still get 50fps or so. Check your drivers.

 

download and install the latest WHQL drivers fro laptopvideo2go.com (it will have instructions on how to install them)

 

Ive updated to the latest drivers from laptopvideo2go still getting the same fps, yes Im using an external monitor with a rate of 1280 x 1024 would it make that much difference to my fps?

 

Forgot to add on sony's site it says the following for my laptop model:

NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7400 notebook graphics processing unit with Total Available Graphics Memory of 335MB

However when I look in display settings it tells me the following:


TOTAL AVAILABLE GRAPHICS MEMORY: 559 MB
DEDICATED VIDEO MEMORY: 64 MB
SYSTEM VIDEO MEMORY: 0 MB
SHARED SYSTEM MEMORY: 495 MB

Is it possible to increase the dedicated video memory, could this be causing my low fps?

Cheers

 

What OS are you using? I'm guessing Vista since it's sucking

 

Very Funny.... Except not, Vista runs games fine. It has to be your video card drivers. And does your game just compleatly freeze at any point?

 

Yes running vista Home edition... My games don't crash at all, Ive tried both the latest driver and an older driver and it doesn't make any difference at all

 

***Bump***

 

No, it isn't possible to increase the dedicated memory.

 

So you have the 64MB card. This means high resolution games are out the window. Try running at 1024x768. It should make a big difference.

 

Thats ridiculous when I bought the laptop at PC world in said the following as it does on their website:

Graphics CARD: 128MB nVidia GeForce Go 7400

Theres no way possible that the information is wrong which is showing in the display properties?

 

What's more likely:
1) the computer doesn't know what's inside it
2) someone in marketing that wrote the "ad" on the vendor's site doesn't know what's inside the computer

 

Is it possible to enable turbo cache on my card? I don't know if the 7400 has the ability to have turbo cache enabled....

 

I'm sorry, but what the hell is DX2? Direct X 2?

 

Deus-Ex 2, really wanted to play this game just finished DX1 (Deus-Ex 1) just to play the second game

 

It can definitely play DX2.

 

Ive tried changing the resolution to 1024x768 its helped abit but still its unplayable sigh