Gaming on NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400

I recently purchased a HP Pavillion dv6375us notebook with an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 with 128MB discrete memory. I tried playing Age of Empires 3 and Command and Conquer 3 on it, but it is extremely choppy. I even lowered the resolution to 800 x 600 but saw no difference. Is there something else i can do to the setting, or am SOL?

Thanks!

 

Have you tried lowering other settings, like bloom, and make shure anti aliasing is off. Not only is your card not very powerful, but it's only 128MB, it's perfectly capable of playing these games, just at very low settings.

 

I can't even get C&C3 to run on my Go7400, it freezes on the splash screen. But from what I'm reading elsewhere, it should run fine at medium settings. I have a Go7400 Screenshot Thread, if you want to check it out it's in my signature.

 

I've played both of those games along with FSX with no problems, med-high settings at 1280x800. Using stock drivers (with settings turned down) and also 165.01. Everything has been great except 165.01 crashes (BSOD) with FSX, and I hear its quite common with other games as well. I think it all comes down to drivers, look at tweaksrus.com for the latest driver.

 

I have the X1400, which is better than the 7400, but still... And i can run C&C 3 fine. Check my sig. And its on medium settings and 1280X800 res.

 

OK, do you guy's see a problem? I think so, so help him!

 

OK

A) Powerpack: WHAT???

Are you yelling at us to help him when you yourself offered nothing. just checking.

B)

What drivers are you all running?

Also it would help if you would post system specs, Ayanik7, and your OS.

 

Yes that would be helpful... I know if you run vista, you have to download some patch with C&C 3 to get it to run.

 

Ok i put EVERYTHING on low setting from the Options menu in the game and it is running fine now with C&C 3. but it sucks not having the detailed graphics as before. Oh well, its better than nothing.

 

Ayanik7, WHAT DRIVERS AND OS ARE YOU RUNNING.

as IIIM3 said there is a patch for Vista users and to get the card to perform well you MUST upgrade your drivers, the stock drivers are typically crap. You just need to go to laptopvideo2go.com or tweaksrus.com and search for a driver, read what they say about it and what everyone else's experiences are. Then download the one you believe sounds good, if it doesn't work, revert back and try a different one. Its going to require some effort (research) on your part and its not an exact science so you may have to try more than one before finding one that doesn't crash during a game.