GeForce 7000m issues

Well, some time ago I bought myself a new laptop. An Acer Aspire 7520, which in retrospect seems to have been a mistake. when I was in the store, I asked if this model was a good product for gaming so that I would have a smooth experience and I was told yes, and as I am not a wiz with computers I thought that it looked as if it would. But, alas it seems as if it can not even take games such as world of warcraft on the lowest settings as I was getting 4-3 FPS. Am I screwed with my current graphic card when it comes to gaming or is there a possibility there is a malfunction or can I possible change the graphic card. I don't much want to get a new laptop, but I would very much like to have a computer on which I could play games.

Thanks for any replies

 

It's an integrated card that was never meant to game and cannot be upgraded. Sorry.

 

Even the GeForce 7000m should be able to do better than 3-4 FPS in WoW on lowest settings; I mean, the GMA 950 can do better than that. Make sure you have the latest drivers and don't have an insane amount of crap running in the background. Also, when you say "lowest settings," that includes resolution and multisampling, correct? Even the 8660M GT would flame out if you were running at "lowest settings" in 1920x1200 with 8x anti-aliasing.

 

Because, you know, there is such a thing as an 8660m GT. j/k.

But it does sound like you need updated drivers. Someone should be able to give you the modded inf from someone. Lemme see If I have them. Nope. Cant find them

 

Ppl mk typos. it's ok.

u shud b able to ply WoW even w/ stock drvers, so lower teh settings.

 

I feel your pain, I purchased the same notebook. Acer : aspire 5520.

Nvidia, geforce 7000

Counter-Strike..Battlefield..nothing works proper.

Frames per second is messed up like yours..

I need to find a solution...

 

I have the 5520-5334 with the nvidia geforce 7000m/610m chipset, or maybe its 620, i dont remember, but anyway, It used to run those games amazing.

WOW i had like 25-30fps constantly, and even counter strike source i was running a good 14-15 fps. That's with 2 gigs of ram, and the integrated ram BIOS setting set to 256 mb. Hellgate London even ran extremely smooth!

notice i said USED to. haha something went wrong and now they play good for a few minutes and then lag hardcore, extremely choppy and ridiculous.

 

It's high chance that it's caused by overheating. Try to remove bottom cover and remove some of the dust.

 

I play WoW sometimes on my very old 2155 which uses a 200m ati integrated graphics and I get 15+ in cities and 20+ outside with 1200x800 res.

 

The x200m on my laptop will play WoW on lowest with 25-30fps. The 7000m should be able to play those games fine. I'd check your settings. Make sure the card is set to performance not quality and there is no Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering turned on. Make sure v-sync is off. Having a larger res 17" screen will not help here. Try setting WoW to lowest settings at 1280*800.

 

Hi.

I played battlefield 2142 on a 7000m with driver 169.44 on vista with only 1gb of memory, it was on low settings though.

regards

John.

 

You could also check your BIOS settings. I have a Compaq F750US laptop, which uses the GeForce 7000M. This video card uses system memory. The amout of system memory that is shared with the vedeo chip is set in the BIOS. Mine was set to 64MB of shared memory for video chip by default and I could tell it to go up to 128MB, which made a huge performance difference in a medium game like UT2004. This video chip can handle up to 287MB of memory, but the motherboard cannot let it use more than 128MB. Stupid Compaq. Stupid me for not looking more closely into the nitty gritty hardware specs before pouncing on the deal.