Dodgy FPS on some games - ATI X1100

Right well. Hi

I baught a laptop a few months ago that my relation broke the screen. It is Acer Aspire 5102WMi and it has ATI X1100 integrated graphics. It has been in my attic for months anyway. I took it down and am now using it as a kind of big processor using external monitor etc. Well, a few of my games run well like Flat Out 2 etc which i believe do not use OpenGL. I am aware that OpenGL is the culprit for this unusual behaviour. Call of Duty and games alike have 10FPS!!! all the time and whatever i do wont change it. I am using the default graphics driver that came with the laptop - I have used other drivers but they do not really work for how i am using the laptop (they dont use my monitor resulution) and others are just poo like its all sqwiggily.

I am using Windows XP and would liek to point out again that i am using an external monitor cos the laptop one is broken...

Ta, Blurredman

 

So what's your question again?

You have to realize that it's an IGP, and has very little gaming power.

I have the same machine, and HL2 is the most demanding game I can play, and even that runs at pretty low settings. So you can't expect much out of it.

 

hmmm, no worries, just bloody anoying. Well, i am hoping to get it taken back for a new one soon, i had to wait this long as it was an insuance laptop. LOL, origional laptop broke, they gave another one for a small price which got broke again which may be a good thing as the grahpics are crap

 

Actually in this case yes, it's a matter of terrible OpenGL support. On my old X200 I couldn't run Allied assault even at 800x600 low settings (requirements: 16mb Video card) without lagging like hell, yet I could run Battlefield 2 at low settings fine (requirements: 128mb video card). I tried a lot of games, and with every single openGl engine - Soldier of Fortune 2, Wolfenstein, Call of Duty, it was the same thing everytime. No OpenGL game was playable on any settings. While it's not a problem across the entire board, I did find many users with the same issues, including one that I joined this forum to respond to...

Of course, this is assuming you meant COD original, not COD2.

 

ATI integrated graphics have abysmal OpenGL performance as HavoK noted, and unfortunately there's not anything you can do about it . . .