Nvidia 8400M performance, general discussion

Some games and other software.

Although 64bit operating systems are supposedly being more widely adopted now so it may just be the way to go.

 

Has anyone tried Call of Duty 4 on the 8400M GS? How does it run?

P.S: It will be on a Dell XPS M1330 paired with a T9300 and 4GB of RAM.

 

It runs well at 1280x800 low-medium settings, which still looks really good. Don't let the low-medium settings discourage you.
I took a couple screenshots on my m1330 somewhere, so look it up when we get search back :\

 

The GS is around half the raw power of the GT, so you may be able to pull off 1280x800 all low to keep a good framerate for online. I OC mine, and play at 1280x800, all settings on "Extra", and get around 40+ FPS at all times.

 

I don't like this post much and I give a reason:

What if some people can't afford something better and they still like some gaming? Telling them they can't game?
Sorry, no offense to you in any kind and all respects to you, but you forgot this maybe. These people are enough in count.

 

I agree Roger, the 8400 in now way is below average. Even the 8400G isn't below average. I think people highly under-estimated it, especially the GT. (Any 8400GT DDR3 user can tell you this)

 

I've your same notebook and I'm worried about gaming performances: I'm getting less than 20 fps with BF2142 with very low settings... shouldn't it perform better? Am I missing something, may be some configuration?

Our video card has 128MB of DDR3 in addition to up to 1,5GB of shared memory.... It's a mobile card, but I think it can perform much better than this on those not very recent games, we are not talking about Crysis...

Do you have those performances too? Can someone suggest anything to improve my performances? Obviuosly I don't want to risk to burn out my video card only to play a game, overclocking is out of question, but may be some trick, some Vista configuration or a driver upgrade?

I'm running forceware 174.31 and I installed RivaTuner to hack the video card, but I left all settings to default to avoidcompromising the hardware.

 

You should be running it alot better

General advice:
Leave your laptop plugged into the ac adapter,
Set your power plan to "performance",
Update the game to the latest version.

Have you tried different drivers from laptopvideo2go.com?

 

For gaming, should I expect one of these configurations to be significantly better than the other, all else equal? The info page suggests that the Radeon 3200 is basically as good as the 8400M, but I'm unsure whether any of the processor combos below present a bottlenecking issue.

128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 (2.0GHz/667Mhz FSB/2MB cache)

ATI Radeon HD 3200
AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor RM-70 (2.0GHz)

 

The HD3200 is new and i havn't seen alot of reviews or benchmarks on it. From what i have seen it can perform similarly to the 8400m GS but if there is little to no price difference than the 8400m GS is a safe bet.

The core 2 should be a little faster although for gaming you wouldn't see any huge difference between the two.

 

I just got Bioshock the other day (for $15; thanks to whomever posted that!)and, unless I run on low quality and 800 x 600, it is like running through molasses...

I am running on XP and downloaded 163.44 drivers from laptopvideo2go (supposedly the drivers that are optimized for Bioshock) and it is somewhat better, playable with FPS of 20-50, depending.

 

What kind of FPS are we talking? 30? 60? 125?

 

sorry i didn't notice the reply

generally around 30-45, lowest i've seen is 20

 

How do you think the 128MB NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 8400M GS would work on an Intel® Pentium® Dual Core T2390 Processor (in a Dell Studio 15 or an Inspiron 1420)?

 

I've tried running Halo 1 with 128 MB 8400M GS (ddr2; 178.13 driver) and gameplay is horrible - screen starts getting choppy and slow in some areas but at other times, gameplay becomes smooth. Tried putting everything on low and set frames as VSYNC/30FPS. I've even tried rolling back to 169 drivers and it was barely any better and still slow. Checked the temperatures of GPU in case of overheating and it was 65 C.

Bioshock runs fine at 800x600 but Halo at the same settings... -.-;;

Anyone have any ideas?

 

Does anyone know what safe temperatures look like for overclocking the 8400m GS?

If I were to overclock, I would be playing World of Warcraft for 2+ hours, so it needs to be a temperature that's safe for that amount of time.

Thanks in advance.

 

hey, does anyone know the best current driver for the 8400M GT

and where i can get it?

sorry if this question is asked a lot.. :[

 

I'm using this one:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=22225&st=0

It's pretty good

 

Do you guys think the 8400gs on the dell xps 1330 could handle dawn of war 2?