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    Increase FPS Fallout 3 Indoors? 8600m GS

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by theneighborrkid, Apr 27, 2009.

  1. theneighborrkid

    theneighborrkid Notebook Evangelist

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    Hello all, I have a LG P300 (T8100, 4GB,8600M GS GDDR3, etc.) and am trying to improve the frames I get indoors, no matter what settings I use I can only get about 10-20 in most indoor areas even though outdoors I can put settings to high for the most part and hold 30+ FPS, any help or input would be appreciated.
    Thanks
     
  2. JohnnyFlash

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    Drop the interior shadows count.
     
  3. funky monk

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    what you can do for a cheap cooling pad is to get some cheap terracota tiles and soak them in water so that they are saturated. The water soaks in so that they are full of it but at the same time not wet, put your laptop on the tiles and then all you have to do is to re-soak them every now and then.

    Make sure that they aren't wet on the surface though, we don't want to short anything out. Anyway, once you have the laptop on this cheap new cooling pad, phase change takes care of the rest
     
  4. JohnnyFlash

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    Um... left field! lol

    Sorry dude, I think you might have answered the wrong post.
     
  5. theneighborrkid

    theneighborrkid Notebook Evangelist

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    Umm I don't need to cool anything, this laptop actually stays very cool, have the processor under clocked and is currently at 19C right now, and GPU never is on fire or anything, will try the shadows but maybe I thought I tried that already, will check and try again.

    Shadows are off and no change, hmmmm
     
  6. JohnnyFlash

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    That is strange.

    I'll direct you here then. Best source of information for any settings in the game.

    Are you running HDR or bloom?
     
  7. theneighborrkid

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    Yeah I thought so... I skimmed through that but didn't really find anything too helpful but I'll have to look through it in some more detail
     
  8. theneighborrkid

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    I have HDR on but I'll try again right now with HDR and Bloom off

    Yeah with them off I get 14FPS in Rivet City market

    Something must be up, I click High Detail, change AA to 2, AF to 4 and Max Interior Shadows to 2, I get 10 FPS, but if I change all settings to low (no change in resolution) I get 14FPS

    To get the duh questions out of the way, I am running on High Performance, on AC, and everything else is normal, no freaky temps
     
  9. funky monk

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    Wait, you said you underclocked the processor? How much did you underclock it by?
     
  10. shadowlaw

    shadowlaw Notebook Consultant

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    I got the same symptom too

    Its really annoying cause exterior area is running very smoothly, and then suddenly when you go to interior area, everything is laggy and slow
     
  11. JohnnyFlash

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    What driver version are you running on which OS?
     
  12. theneighborrkid

    theneighborrkid Notebook Evangelist

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    Oh sorry undervolted, not underclocked :) and Um just retail picked it up from Target last week, so version 1.0? and Vista Business 64 Bit
     
  13. Hagen Nordheim

    Hagen Nordheim Notebook Guru

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    hey, I had the same problem!, isn't it weird that outdoors run flawlessly and indoors don't? when there's clearly more polygons, shaders, etc, outdoors.
     
  14. theneighborrkid

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    do any of the patches address this issue
     
  15. BenLeonheart

    BenLeonheart walk in see this wat do?

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    Lol, be sure to be running it on performance mode... you know.
     
  16. JohnnyFlash

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    The patches mess up the VATS, so I wouldn't touch them.