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    HD 6850M worse than a desktop 7600GT?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Speedlink, Jul 28, 2011.

  1. Speedlink

    Speedlink Notebook Enthusiast

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    I ran XP on the PC with P4 and 7600GT.
    On my laptop I am running W7.

    I have now played Cossacks:Back To War on my laptop and even tough it is 2D, it still stutters!

    I am considering returning the laptop and building a desktop seeing there is no solution to it.
     
    Speedlink, Aug 2, 2011
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  2. Meaker@Sager

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    Sounds like some weird driver issue.

    However there are better gaming notebooks out there.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Aug 2, 2011
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    Reutrn your laptop and get a proper gaming one. Then you will not have issues. I suggest you get a Straight gaming laptop without GPU switching if you don't want problems.
     
    TomJG90, Aug 2, 2011
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  4. Speedlink

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    Could it be the 5400RPM hard drives? I have noticed that when RE4 freezes for a few seconds, the hard drive activity LED turns on.
     
    Speedlink, Aug 6, 2011
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    Then you may have programs eating all your ram. Any HDD (even an SSD) will slow your system at that point.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Aug 6, 2011
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    I thought 4GB was enough? While sitting at idle, my laptop is using ~800MB of memory and I have about 45 processes running. I followed Black Viper's guide but most of the services I have running cannot be disabled.
     
    Speedlink, Aug 7, 2011
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