Nvidia 8400M performance, general discussion

I am currently using the modded version from tweakforce version 163.67(this is there latest version for laptops right now)

All the games i played before updating my graphics card has a slow loading time and will have a hard time getting the fps to stabalize to 25-30.

 

it will tell me what? dont mean to sound like a prick, but cant you just tell me?

if anyone else can help me out would be appreciated...

Graphic: nvidia 8400M 896mb turbo cache the laptop has 2gb ddr2 ram.

i went and checked it out and i asked the guy what 8400M was it (as in was it a G, GS or GT) and he said "it's just a Go series, the cards your talking about are for desktops" which puzzled me abit...

so how do i know what series it is? next time i think i will talk to someone abit more in tune with things was in a rush so couldnt really see anyone else.

also what does 'dedicated ram' mean? and whats a bad/good/great amount to have?

 

can nvidia 8400m run games like FIFA 08????
plz reply at the earliest....

 

What brand are you going to buy, if it is acer then it will most likely be a 8400m G.

What is the end of that card? either G, GS or GT. but any of those will run FIFA 08 well. checked systemrequirements lab and it says that my laptop can handle it at recommended settings.

 

Asus F3SC:
Processor: CORE2DUO T7300 2.00GHZ,
HDD: 160G,
Memory: 2x1GB DDR2 667MHZ,
Screen: 15.4 * WXGA COLOURSHINE,
GPU: GEFORCE GO 8400M/128/384MB TURBO *

yeah i think your right it is a 8400m G.. with 128mb dedicated

is there really much of a difference between the different 8400m chips?

i know its a long shot but i cant find it... does anyone have the link to this thread where someone posted screen shots of various games using an 8400m i think the games were battlefield 2 and this other one that looked like final fantasy(2-3 girls on steps, greyish bg)... there was also shots of House and another Tv show.

 

I'd like to know why in the heck this darn DV9500 notebook refuses to install modified drivers (from Laptops2go) without completely screwing up (BSOD).

 

There is quite a difference in their performance. Although even the G can still play latest games in lowest settings. It also depends on what kind of games you play.

 

Strange that I have problems playing FIFA WORLD CUP 06 on my laptop. Its not that the game runs slow, it gets slow sometimes, however, the menu and options run considerably slow, one has to wait like forever to select a team.

Furthermore, my Friend who has a Core Duo (not 2 duo) 2.00 GHz, with GMA 950, seems to run the game smoothly with any issues.

Some other games I found issues of slowness are:
Call of Duty 4
Legay of Kain: Defiance

 

No, I haven't updated My drivers yet.
But considering that it might give me a performance boost, I will do it tomorrow. (The Tweakforce version)

 

You should also overclock it to increase it's performance.

 

Can you tell me How? and what is the safe limit,...

 

Download Rivatuner (latest version). The driver version (i think) does not allow overclocking BUT if you press the check box that says "allow hardware overclocking". There will be a boost in its overall performance

 

RivaTuner Overclock Guide
http://www.guru3d.com/article/article/449/4

 

I already followed this guide. It is just that after i set the frequencies and click the OK button, the frequencies will just reset back to it's original state.

There is also no TEST button.

But as I said Rivatuner when you check the "hardware overclocking" box. It will still have a performance boost than not having it checked.

 

HELLO EVRYBODY1
I HAVE A HP DV2625EO With a geforce 8400ge grapcard THERE ARE NO OVERLAY. Ihave aLVAYS HAd OVERLAY ON ALL MY LAPTOPS MY LATEST WAS A DV 9XXXX +geforce 7600.....TRIED TO 2UPPGRADE TO XP on the dv 2625 BUT THE GRAPHIC CARD DOESNT KICK OVERLAY THERE either. ITS SUBSTENSIAL FOR ME WITH OVERLAY..OR HOT KEYS whEN EDITING VIDEO TO GET THE WIDEO OUT ON ONE FULLSIZE SCREEN AND KEEP THE APPLICATION ON THE OTHER MONITOR. ....! THE MENY IS NEW IN NVIDIA BUT THERE IS A OPTION WHEN I HAVE SET THE APPEREANSE ON EXTRA MONITOR-VIDEO7TV-..WHeN SET TO 720 p hdtv its says in the manual that it will be possible to set how the video should appear....in full screen on selected monitor with the player on primary "mirroring" the video. ...this option seems to bee gone. have spent weeks trying to figure out .....is there some messias out there who can modyfy this driver.... (im dissapointed. with vista, the os is back to the childhood)
HOPE SOMEONE KNOW HOW TO HACK OR MODIFY A DRIVER.?????????????(to THE GEFORCE 8400GM ...it HAS 2 GPUS.) Happy new year evrybody from drfilmz norway.

 

Hey everyone, I broke 2000 in 3dmark06 today with my 8400M GS! Take that for everyone who doubted its capabilites

 

Nice overclocking, Smooth!

 

I have read a lot about the upcoming 9 series refresh, but no one has mentioned anything about low end cards. Will the 8400 be getting replaced by a 65nm 9400?

 

Would the 8400 gs on a 2 gig system with a 5450 processor be able to play on medium to high settings with FEAR and FEAR perseus mandate?

 

At a lower resolution, it should.

 

Who here has an 8400G that has overclocked his GPU?

Also what is your highest attained score in Windows Experience Index?
(I got 4)

 

I have a 8400M G in my lappy (watch my sig).
I have it OC´ed to 500/500 and I got a good performance improvement using 169.09 modded drivers in WinXP XP2. I got 1422 in 3DMark06.
I haven´t OC´ed to higher levels because above that numbers the system becomes unstable. Don´t know why because I´ve seen people with higher numbers.
In Vista I got 3.4, 3.4 in Aero and 4.1 in games, the rest is almost the same as you. I got this score with Aero turned off and with 157,67 drivers.
How do you have 4??
Cheers

 

I used 173.65, can't overclock GPU using any tool(ntune, riva or atitool), but used riva to overclocked shader to max, used ntune to overclock my motherboard's FSB, ntune to overclock my CPU to 2.38GHZ from 1.9

That's pretty much it. my temps are always at 55 C for CPU while GPU near 80 when gaming normal is 65C.

 

What is the max for the shader clock?
And how do you use the ntune to overclock FSB and CPU?
You´re using which version of WinVista?

 

For me 1200mhz(caution: some games will hang when overclocked this much while others benifit greatly from it

there is a setting in mine in the performance tab that lets me do it(I think this is only for Nvidia based motherboard)

Vista Home premium

 

OK, thanks for the quick reply.
Take care

 

Will you try what I did???

 

The part of the FSB and CPU I won´t because I think it´s impossible. But I´ll give a try with the shader clock on SuC and COD4.
I just asked for curiosity coz I know I can´t go much further with this G.
I forgot to mention that with OC to 500/500 my temps never passed the 71º. In some games it doesn´t pass the 65º (like PES).

 

really???? do you use a cooling pad?? I just improvised, also this was always my GPU temp even before overclocking my shader. Ill try downclocking it

 

No I don´t have a cooling pad yet. My lappy is 15.4, it´s bigger so probably doesn´t generate so much heat, yours probably smaller right? Sometimes I use 2 things (don´t remember the name, sorry) that are used to close/open the plastic bottles (p.e. water bottles) to put under and in the back of my lappy to make it higher for the air get out and not 2 be in contact with the surface keeping him cool. hope you understood what I said.
500/500 is a small OC, it´s a 5-15 FPS improvement depending on the games. The temp with or without OC is almost the same.

 

It's 14 inches, maybe your right. I am still looking for drivers that can help me overclock.

Your method is just like mine only thing is that mine are not plastic bottlesw but a stand for action figures or something like that.

Is it cold in your country???

 

I´m from Portugal and it´s not very cold right now, about 15º-20º depending if the sun is up or not.
The drivers that let u overclock is definitely 169.04 and one time I did with the 169.28 in Vista. Now I use Vista for work and XP for playing.
And I was wrong, instead of 71º it should be 75º, it´s the top temp I reached playing SuC (OC´ed) but without lifting the laptop.
Yesterday I was playing PES2008 with the laptop lifted and max temp was 67º, with and without OC.
Take care

 

Tried 169.04, yes it lets me overclock and i got aboost in My windows experience index(Gaming went up to 4.8) Bbuuuuut my FPS went down to 35fps from 41 in Halo2, while I overclocked it to 550mhz core.

I had to go back to 173.65 driver to get the best performance

(If thats not cold here in my country, The Philippines it is already considered very cold, normal temps here at midday are between 35 C to 45 C.)

 

OK, your country is really hot, that should explain the temps you have.
The funny thing is that yesterday I tried the 173.65 and they let me overclock. I used nTune, not tried Rivatuner yet.
Only with the driver the Win Exp Index went from 4.1 to 4.3 in Games and Aero stayed the same, 3.4.
OC´ed to 500/500 I got 3.6 in Aero and 4.6 in Games.
Not tried in real games because I got them installed in my XP partition.

 

Well since you overclocked the WEI thinks that it is still better but just like what i said eventhough 169.04 let me overclock it gave me less FPS in games.

 

The 8400G isn't meant to be overclocked, and is not really a powerful card. I pushed my GT to 550/650, but only because the DDR3 allows for much cooler data transfer. The GT also has twice the vertex shaders, which is really what makes the difference. With my clocks after a few hours of Call of Duty 4, it gets up to around 74-76C max.

 

I don't really overclock my GPU but it gets that hot, I think it really maybe because I have a 14 inch laptop.

 

Hello.

I'll soon be buying this laptop:

Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core T2310 (2x 1,46GHz)
Cache: 1MB L2
Memory: 2GB DDR2 (2x 1GB)
HD: 160GB SATA (5400rpm)
Screen: TFT 15.4" BrightView WXGA (1280 x 800)
GPU: nVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
GPU memory: 895MB TurboCache (128MB dedicated + 767MB shared)

Due to my limited budget and urgency (it's readily available at a close store) this will be very likely what I'm buying.

I assume WoW will play fine by the previous posts, but I'm curious about another "old" game...

Will GTA: San Andreas run fine on a machine like this? I used to play it on my PS2 but it's broken and I miss that game... I found it for PC at a very cheap price and if my new laptop could handle it (with high quality) I'd love to revive it again.

Thank you.

 

Yes it would run at fairly high quality....

 

Arruda: Yes GTA will run fine on the highest settings possible with no fps lag.

Anyone know if a 8400m gs can handle Flight Simulator X + Acceleration expansion pack? If so, what level gfx settings?

Also purchasing a logitech extreme joystick if all is well. Cant think of any new games to play so im trying out the simulation genre. My lappy specs on sig

Cheers

 

Does anyone know if a 8400GS 128mb on the xps m1330 can run Unreal Tournament 3, Bioshock, Crysis, or Gears of War?

 

I have the MSI Ex600 with geforce 8400m G and i can play COD4 with no problems ... (Low Settings)

 

They will all run

at 1280x800, expect medium on UT3 and Bioshock and low for crysis and GoW

 

for me all the games run at 1024x768 except for crysis....but for some strange reason UT3 is the only one that runs on 1280x800

 

Hi,

My name is Sydney Wieffer and im from The Netherlands, as you see im a newbie to this forum.
After searchin for a long time for more info about the 8400m GS i finally found this forum.

Alot of good information to be found here, but still got a couple of questions about this videocard.

First to start,
Iv got now a HP Pavallion DV9770 with this specs:

First question to start of:
1.
What is better in use? Vista HOME? this is what i'v got now, or WINXP?

2.
Where do i find stable drivers ? On the Nvidia site it said i must download it from the HP site, but this driver crashed mine Vista and gave it a bluescreen with info that the driver of nvidia is bad.

3.
Overclocking this videocard... is that risk free?

And ohyea Vista gave my grafics -i tought- a 2.5 in score

And for now, i want to play Battlefield 2 but its very slow on my laptop My desktop pc with 7600GT is much faster with less specs, my laptop got better specs then my desktop pc.

 

8400M G acer 4520G

 

How much more powerful is the ATI mobility HD2600 512mb GDDR3 than the 8400M gs 256mb.

I'm looking at these two laptops:

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16834147659

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16834101154

THings I want to use this laptop for:

I am looking for the ability to play some games like Myst V, Uru, Tiger woods golf, GTA SanAndreas, and likely some newer puzzle type games like the myst series (my wife likes these a lot, right now she is playing Myst V on our current laptop with radeon mobility 9200 64mb and she doesnt seem to mind how slow or low res it is. It actually doesnt look bad, its just a low res.)

I also want to be able to stream movies from netflix to my Home theater via HDMI.

WHich one of these video solutions is more future proof?
Is there another laptop that I should be looking at for around (preferably less than) $1000

 

The HD2600 is by FAR the better card. It's about the same as a 8600m gt

The only thing is the gateway is vista 64 bit so there may be some compatibilty issues.. But hey 4 gig ram

 

compatibility issues with what types of things?