GeForce Go 7950GTX - High End Card, My Arse!

heya. i am using the stock drivers that came with my system for the 7950 gtx... 7.15.11.138

if i am not really having problems with games, should i upgrade to the forceware drivers anyway?

 

no forerunner, beatsiz magical gma950 can run any game on the highest settings and low resolutions and it automatically adds AA without a peformance drop.

 

Ive owned this laptop for 6 months and used 3 games on it, if you think im gonna go and buy a new graphics card that might give me a few extra fps that i wont notice you are very much mistaken!

 

As others have stated, at least do a separate partition with XP if you don't want to blow away your current Vista install.

I have tried Vista on my gaming desktop and wife's laptop. Both with miserable gaming results. Installed XP and everything was smooth as butter. Even on my wife's laptop with ATI Xpress 1100 graphics, I could play Far Cry, Tomb Raider Anniversary, and C&C 3, all of which were unplayable in Vista.

Whether this is a driver, hardware, or Vista issue I don't know and don't care. XP works and has worked, quite flawlessly for years. This is why I avoid Vista until it can prove itself better than XP.

 

Right-click the desktop and click on Nvidia Control Panel. Then click on System Information on the lower left corner. There you sould see the Forceware version.

 

forceware version 98.09..

small update, I installed the latest patch from EA, and updated my NVIDIA driver from the Dell website (even that was old, the date said February this year).

I played it and it ran a touch smoother, but still not £1.6k smooth.

 

p.s here are screenshots of the current settings.

 

lol, well there's your problem.

Talk about old.

Go to www.laptopvideo2go.com and download the latest drivers. People were saying 163.75 or 163.76. I guess it depends.

Make sure you download the modified INF in order for it to recognize your GPU.

But most importantly, unistall your current video card drivers first! Then restart and install the one's I listed above.

You can also try www.tweakforce.com and try their "modified" mobile drivers.

 

Just realised that it says your DirectX version is 10.0?

 

is 10 bad?

 

Ive taken off the driver using uninstall programs from the control panel. I have downloaded 163.75 and thats ready to be installed in the morning (its nearly 3am here!). The only thing im unusre of in when you say download the modified INF??? could you post a link to that for me please and how to do it.

thanks again!

 

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9243

 

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=15369
Click on "modded inf" and save it (overwrite the old one) in your 163.75 drivers folder before you install it.

 

ok done that and she's installing now... fingers crossed.

 

Right,

I installed the driver and rebooted. Everything was fine when i started the game apart from me not having 16:9, it had changed the aspect ratio to 4:3. I carried on regardless, and found the gameplay a hell of a lot smoother, real quick and it was still on minimum settings. 2 minutes in to playing the system shuts down, and when it eventually rebooted it told me that it got too hot and had to shut the system down.

I have now restarted windows, and im stuck in 4:3 (its a 17" widescreen Dell M1710 Tru-life thingy) and crappy desktop graphics...

 

pic of aspect

 

Another note I would highly recommend a external USB HDD to back up your data. One it'll save ya grief if ya ever happen to have a physical HD crash and two, with HDs being so cheap these days there easily affordable. Newegg has a 300gb Maxtor for like $80USD. I have two Seagate External drives, one for my music, the other for ISO's, pics, and whatever I can find to throw on there

 

I have done a system restore, so now im effectively back to square 1. Can someone tell me the best way to cleanly uninstall my current NVIDIA drivers, ready for me to install the new forceware that im downloading?

thanks

 

Im sure it wont run them in DX10 Im sure it the 8800m will dropkick your laptop into the bin

I dont really know but I just hope Nvidia hurries up or ati (never ever cough possible) with a gpu that will *HOPEFULLY* Be twice as powerfull as 7950gtx and 3 times as 8700.... because then a 8800m sli would be the ideal portable gaming solution.... Im just looking for Crysis on High/Very high settings at 1280*800 or 1440*900

 

MY GMA950 says it too!!! NOT! Its just that only vista can run DX10 so its installed.... but you need a compatible DX10 card =)

 

I have a big pen*s, so i'll let your computer dropkick mine into the bin - all i wanna do is play the f*cking game.

 

An Update...

I've not had time to attempt installing dual Operating Systems, however, I did do the following and noted some improvements:

1. Uninstalled current driver and rebooted
2. Ran a registry cleaner
3. Installed the latest tweakforce driver from notebookforums

Re-running some of the games:

Quake 4
Is now playable at 1920x1200 on Ultra setting with vsync but no AA. Framerates were mostly between 50-60fps with the odd blip down to 40fps.


Far Cry
Is now playable at 1920x1200 on Highest settings but with no AA. Framerates between 60-90fps.


Unreal Tournament 3 Demo
Admittedly, being a UT fan, this is the game that I'm most concerned about.

At 1920x1200 with all options as high as they'll go, I got between 15-20fps.
At 1680x1050 with the same settings, results were more or less the same.
At 1440x900, same settings, I got between 20-45 fps. Not much of an improvement then.

However, switiching off Bloom by tweaking the INI file allowed for "some" fps joy. Framerates shot up to mostly 30-60fps at 1440x900. Though of course the game didn't look as nice and it would still hit 20fps on too many occassions, hmmm!

MOH: Airborne
Still runs like cack. On medium or high, with none, simple or full post processing, at 1280x800 framerates continue to be bloody erratic, dipping to 15fps before suddenly rising to 60fps a second later, and then plummeting again!


I'm now waiting for my Half Life 2 Orange Box to be delivered and depending on how it performs, I'll decide on my next step...

Uninstall via Control Panel -> Programs and Features
Reboot
Run CCleaner to clean registry etc
Install new driver
Reboot.

At least that's what I just did...

Hope that helps mate

 

Hey,

can't see your pic, but those figures sound super! I'll install the same driver tonight and see how it does. If you could send my your ini file or let me know of the changes that you made to it, that would be great! I'll PM you my email.

Many thanks!

 

In MOH:A its not you GPU its your CPU there is a known bug which maxes both CPU cores to 100%.
http://www.computing.net/gaming/wwwboard/forum/8597.html

 

Its funny you should say that, I have Core Meters installed in my sidebar, and whenever MOH:A starts to load up they both max out to 100%...

 

How come last night when i installed new drivers it worked fine, but overheated like a mofo after only 5 minutes???

 

Right, Ive spoken to EA...

basically, MOH:A does not like dual core processors. The guy on the phone basically told me to take the game back as it wont work on my PC, even when running one core (min req is 2.8 i have 2x 2.16)

absolute load of ballsacks. back to virgin tomorrow to take it back.

 

That is definitely a load of ballsacks lol.

EA looks to be dropping the ball this year.

 

How can it not? It's based on the Unreal engine (right?) which should love dual core CPU's

 

im getting mixed reports from a whole host of online communities, and im not computer literate enough to decipher what is the best course of action. Im not competent enough to go messing about with setting on my pc and downloading different stuff from all over the world just to try and get one game to work.

EA have gone downhill since command & conquer red alert days i tell you.

 

@2low4u,

Can you change your desktop resolution and/or refresh rate?

Mike.

 

Yeeah i can change my desktop resolution, not at the moment though as im using the built in graphics whilst i find a stable enough driver for my graphics card! the text is massive atm!

 

The latest Nvidia for Dell driver is 156.55, available at laptopvideo2go with a modded INF (though you will have to tweak it yourself to allow more resolutions - a simple task, but if you're not up for it, let me know and I'll do it for you). It's very stable and corrected at least one major problem that many M1710 owners, including myself, had when running our notebooks on battery. I discussed it in a thread on their forum.

 

yes please if you could sendspace or any equivalent a folder with the driver and the modded INF/tweak that would be most appreciated. Will it enable me to play MOH:A though?

 

Those are some nasty textures. Are you playing it on low settings? I dont recall my UT3 game having such blurry textures on high.

 

You should take a look at how the 7950GT on the desktop performs. It is generally comparable to the 7950GTX go.

 

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz
Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX

Running a Rock CTX Pro.

The FPS you are getting in UT3 are due to poor tweaking of your ini coupled with high resolution (unnecessary).

I have a 17" screen @ 1680x1050 but run the game @ 1088 x 612 (good fps are essential to play at any sort of decent skill level)

[Engine.ISVHacks]
UseMinimalNVIDIADriverShaderOptimization=True

Above is a tweak for Nvidia cards to help with stuttering when rendering new objects

[Engine.GameEngine]
bSmoothFrameRate=False

A tweak to uncap FPS

[SystemSettings]
StaticDecals=False
DynamicDecals=False
DynamicLights=False
DynamicShadows=False
LightEnvironmentShadows=False
CompositeDynamicLights=True
DirectionalLightmaps=False
MotionBlur=False
DepthOfField=False
Bloom=False
QualityBloom=False
Distortion=False
DropParticleDistortion=True
SpeedTreeLeaves=False
SpeedTreeFronds=False
OnlyStreamInTextures=False
LensFlares=False
FogVolumes=True
FloatingPointRenderTargets=True
Trilinear=True
OneFrameThreadLag=True
UseVsync=False
UpscaleScreenPercentage=True
Fullscreen=True
AllowD3D10=True
EnableHighPolyChars=False
SkeletalMeshLODBias=1
ParticleLODBias=2147483647
DetailMode=0
ShadowFilterQualityBias=-1
MaxAnisotropy=0
MaxMultisamples=1
MinShadowResolution=32
MaxShadowResolution=512
ResX=1088
ResY=612
ScreenPercentage=100.000000

My settings, not necessarily the very best for performance (haven't really spent enough time fine tuning) but provides good fps whilst the game still looks good.

My avg fps during a fly through benchmark was 111. However this was due to a couple of poor map optimisations - a lot of the time the card was giving ~165fps.

Hope this helps

EDIT: Forgot to mention the ini is located in My Documents > My Games > UT3 > UTEngine.ini

 

Got damn that UT3 screenshot looked horrible.

 

1 week later i still havent played MOH:A...

 

now my computer keeps overheating, even when playing the original HALO it shuts down after 5 minutes of play. any ideas what this is?

 

p.s this is after installing the NBF Mobileforce VS 163.75 M6 driver

 

So do you run Vista? If you have XP install that too so you can dual boot. For XP I have the best drivers for you and those are XtremeG´s 91.47 2.50e. Those drivers are damn fast in games overall. My 7800GTX runs with those drivers just beautiful.

Overheating? Clean out your laptop, then I mean open it up and clean out the fans and blow out all dust you can.

No need to run Vista on a DX9 card, since you get better performance in XP. I run dual boot Vista and XP on my desktop rig, but then I also own a 8800GTX so I need Vista for DX10, but I never run any DX9 games in Vista, those are played in XP. Can´t be better than that.