My New 8600M GS plays COD4 on Low Settings, Nooo!

I had relatively high expectations when my new notebook came yesterday (specs in signature). I first went through Vista Tip and Tweak thread (made some adjustments), then installed Call Of Duty 4. To my unfortunate suprise, COD4 (multiplayer) only runs clean and smooth on 800x600! With an 8600GS I was convinced I'd be runnin relatively higher than that. I also slightly overclocked after realizing the graphics issues and such, which helped a bit. But what's the deal?? I know I can get far better performance outta the GS, what's left to do??

 

No offense, but what made you think the 8600GS would run better than that. It is a decent card, but COD4 would really be pushing it (the GT would be much better suited with twice the stream processors/shaders). Your GS has alot of RAM, but not the core to use it all..

 

Why didn't you go for the Asus B2? The 8600GS is not a card for serious gaming. Some would argue neither is an 8600GT, or a laptop for that matter, but I think the B2 has the 8600GT and would suit you better. Send the HP back. My $0.02

 

I think that my ATI X1600 is a quite a ways weaker than the 8600 GS and I run COD4 on medium settings with 25+ FPS at 1280 x 800.

Try updating your video card drivers.

The 8600 GS should be able to run COD4 on medium-high settings just fine.

 

I know, I just don't want to spend the extra $300. I'm seriously thinking about it at this point though.

I wasn't expecting the GT specs from it, but I was deffintiely expecting a bit more than I'm gettin. I expected AT LEAST medium settings ran clean.


Also, patriot, I did update my drivers (running 167.45 now). Whether or not I'm gonna try some more for trial and error is undecided yet.

 

yea, like usapatriot is saying, I actually have a HP 9500t 8600mGS 256
runs call of duty 4 1280X800 medium settings fine. Overclocked or otherwise. I do have it overclocked so I get a 3000 on 3DMark06 demo version. Are you running on high performance setting. (Vista power settings)? I went through all the tweak guides too. The computer gets faster and faster with time. It use to take forever to boot up now several months later it boots really FAST. By the way what drivers are you using. I'm using laptopvideo2go drivers with the mod inf 169.04 and rivatuner.

 

4096 overclock with 8600M GT
Click on 8600M GT

 

DeadShot2k8 run a 3DMark06 and see what your score turn out to be.

 

Remember to turn to High Performance! And yeah, run a 3DMark06.

 

Yea I have the same card and run it pretty good settings.

 

Return it, get the GT!. It's really an amazing card for it's price.

 

Make sure you notebook is plugged in while you game and that your GPU is not in battery saver mode.

 

Maybe changing the drivers would help too.

 

Yeah...drivers make a big difference. My 8600m GT runs SP @ 1680x1050, all max settings, 0xaa/8xaf and very playable FPS, but I run MP in 1280x800, all low settings, textures on Extra and 0xaa/8xaf and EXTREMELY SMOOTH FPS, I'm talking 100+ usually, pending the server of course. That GS is limited by memory bandwidth...64bit vs 128bit makes a huge difference.

 

The 8600 gs has a 128bit bus, at least in the official nvidia specs. I have a go7600 and run fine in 1024x640 shadows off, other settings on or normal or medium and textures on extra. The 8600gs should do better than that. Have you installed better drivers than the drive which com with your notebook? have you uninstalled the previous drivers? The uninstalling of previous driver is crucial to getting good performance.

 

OH, my bad. It has a 128bit bus as well, I got it mixed up with something else I was thinking. The difference that is killer, the 8600m GT has 32 Stream Processes, where as the GS has 16, which is like half the performance.

 

@ Ziggo0: Why not bump up some of the settings and run COD4 on medium or high? You will still get perfect playable 30+ FPS.

 

do a clean install and update drivers. make sure your power settings are set to performance.

 

30fps in MP is way to low for me...with everything on high, it's 30 ~ 60, sometimes higher. Looks BEAUTIFUL but its studdery and not smooth anymore. I require the smooth for fast gameplay.

 

Yeah... I can't play if the game doesn't stay 60 fps constant. 30 fps is way to low to play multiplayer in any Shooter game.

I'm playing WoW most of the time now which runs fine. But I'm a bit disapointed I cant play DoD: Source with high settings and good frame rate. :/

 

i played i ith 10-15 FPS online and it went super, i dont require more than 10 fps in firs person shooters i pwn anyway

 

Haha....ha......ha?

Anyway, to the person that started this thread, as per usual, there's a whole pile of rubbish in this thread that needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. No matter what anyone tells you, Call of Duty 4 will not run consistantly smoothly at 1680x1050 max settings 8x AF (or anything close to it). My desktop HD3870 is prone to dips at those settings in intense situations. In fact, the desktop ddr3 8600GT hasn't a hope at running COD4 at 1680x1050 max settings 8x AF either. If I try and emulate the amazing settings posed by people here (1680x1050 high settings with AF) it's virtually a slide show, even at 1280x800 maxed out it gets ugly. My 3dMark score is 3.6k, stock. OVerclocking adds more frames but is not the difference between being able to run high resolutions and texture settings as is often claimed here.

And the 3870 is about, literally, 2x as powerful as an 8600GT. Incidentally, I have an 8600GT (mobile) myself. COD4 runs pretty well at 1280x800 medium-some high settings. But to be very honest, 1024x768 high settings is the sweet spot for me, to maintain a constant smooth fps. After all, what good is a game looking pretty when the cinematic action is just ruined by jerking all over the place in the larger firefights? Multiplayer runs well at the same settings and maintains a 30-60fps range.

I'd imagine your GS should be able to pull off 1280x800, rounded medium settings. Online is slightly more forgiving then SP in normal sized servers.

 

How did u manage to overclock your hp9500.
mine wont let me. i thought it was hp & vista but its not.
please let me know. ive tried everything and the 169.04 drivers isnt installing properly. i got later drivers though.

thanks

 

How did u manage to overclock your hp9500.
mine wont let me. i thought it was hp & vista but its not.
please let me know. ive tried everything and the 169.04 drivers isnt installing properly. i got later drivers though.

thanks

 

i play COD4 at 1024x768 all settings on medium, except shaders/shadows and no aa/af, in sp and get around 30-50 frames, and granted i have an 8400gs.

EDIT: i remember once i was playing CS:S and my frames were 9-22....i was like WTF...turned out vista was set to power saver mode....turned it to high performance, back to 50-90 frames (iceworld + small GG servers..lol)