Hey guys just an question

Hello all am new here just need some help with something I have a laptop M1530 and I installed windows 7 on to it (used to have windows vista on it) everthing works fine but my dvd rewriter drive ( Optiac DVD+-RW AD-7640A ATA is not working right and just wonding if there any updated drivers for it and I have an Geforce 8600 GT it should play GTA4 prefect but I have to run the game on really low graphices and it still lags abit but other dx10 games works fine with max graphices at 1200x pix like lost planet,eve online,nfs,007 game that just came out would the gta 4 game run better on windows vista or there a fauilt with something.

It says on graphice information here

system information here

is there some how i can make it so it would use some of the total available graphices memory? because its only using the 256 the laptop as 4gbs ddr3 memory in it atm too

video of gta 4 ingame

 

Hi and welcome to nbr
GTA4 is quite a demanding game and my 9800GT struggled a few times.
i notice from your screen shot you are running 32bit so you will only be able to see and use roughly 3.1gb ram

when you double click on my computer can you see your cd/dvd drive there.
is so try this: right click on it and press properties > press hardware > properties > does it say this device is working properly. even if it does go to driver at top of page and press update driver and see if that works.

 

yeah everthing seems to be working fine I have made a screenshot to show ya here would the games run better on 64 bit system windows 7 or 64bit vista but I do not no if it would work on this laptop thought but my brother as a restore cd for his new laptop he got month ago only thing that bugs me that is this laptop cost me over a grand an his laptop cost 500 an works fine with gta 4 lol

 

Like MrDJ said, your os is limiting you a bit, the game is very hardware intensive, GTA4 from my understanding also eats alot of cpu power too if im not mistaken. Now the 8600 is roughly only 1 generation better then the graphics card in the ps3, and on ps3 the game is running on low. Your card might be able to handle slightly better then low I suspect. also if your card only has 512mb of vram that will hold back the game too.

Also DX10 if used correctly can run games more efficiently leading to better performance if coded right, I have a feeling thats the case here. GTA4 is kinda like crysis, a hog just to be a hog, and when it comes to lappies its near impossible to upgrade them, might aswell sell it locally, drop another 500-1000 on something a bit newer if you'd like to see some sparkle or buy a desktop.

 

or i can just use ma desktop since i used the laptop i put the alienwear back in the box lol it to big thats why i got the laptop hehe just was trying to fix the lag ingame guess ill have to switch it back for abit

 

sounds like your SOL then, should went with an m17x from alienware, woulda lasted you a couple years and power housed through games.

 

yaya i fixed the problem wasnt patched to 1.0.7.0 now have no lag ingame but i got to start all over again

 

well thats good, what settings are you playing it on curiously?

 

Statistics
Average FPS: 20.98
Duration: 34.37 sec
CPU Usage: 65%
System memory usage: 58%
Video memory usage: 100%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1280 x 800 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: High
Reflection Resolution: High
Water Quality: High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x16
Night Shadows: On
View Distance: 38
Detail Distance: 45

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Video Driver version: 266.58
Audio Adapter: Speakers / Headphones (SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz

File ID: Benchmark.cli

 

i did a test on laptop because i need to reinstall windows on laptop but i get this error dunno what it post to meant though image here