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    Optimizing an Acer Aspire One Netbook for Gaming

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Pandariffic, Jun 7, 2009.

  1. Pandariffic

    Pandariffic Notebook Guru

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    Today I'm going to be purchasing an Acer Aspire One netbook, with an Intel Atom 1.6ghz processor, and 2gb RAM. It was either that or the much more powerful ultraportable HP DV2, but the Aspire won me over because of its smaller size and much better battery life.

    Now, I'm definitely not expecting to be running Crysis on this, or anything similar, but I'm definitely going to be wanting to play World of Warcraft on it occasionally, some old PC titles, such as Vice City or Morrowind, and of course my emulators.

    Is there anything I can do to ensure that these games will run as well as they possibly can on my Aspire? I'm not familiar with netbooks at all, but I hae seen some youtube videos of people running these games surprisingly well.

    Thanks in advance!
     
    Pandariffic, Jun 7, 2009
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  2. MisterQ

    MisterQ Notebook Consultant

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    If I were you, when playing games, try overclocking when you're on AC, but if you can and need to, on battery. I'm not sure if the Aspire one has an overclock, but in my experiences in overclocking, I get a 5 - 10 fps gain in overclocking. And in games, I run usually 640x480.

    Hopefully you should be able to run games like Counter Strike well on the Aspire One, since my netbook also is almost the same specs as your Aspire.
     
    MisterQ, Jun 7, 2009
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  3. HTWingNut

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    Counterstrike is CPU heavy. CS 1.6 apparently plays ok, but not the greatest.
     
    HTWingNut, Jun 7, 2009
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    Pommie Notebook Deity

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    htwingnut, out of interest how does CS:S run on your N10J ?
     
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    Pandariffic Notebook Guru

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    Is there a guide to save overclocking for the Aspire?
     
    Pandariffic, Jun 7, 2009
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    Red_Dragon Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Im sure he can play it on high plua he overclocks his cpu so he should be able to run it.
     
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  7. be77solo

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    keep us updated how this works out for ya... I almost snagged one of these at walmart today.... $298 with XP, not bad! Nice looking little machine!
     
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  8. HTWingNut

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    Take a trip over to forum.eeeuser.com. I know it's not an Eee, but same thing. That forum seems a lot more developed than most other netbook ones. There's overclocking tools there. Most Atom's can OC to about 2.0GHz which makes a world of difference for gaming.
     
    HTWingNut, Jun 8, 2009
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