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    Tomb Raider Underworld - How does it run?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Helegad, Dec 7, 2008.

  1. Helegad

    Helegad Notebook Enthusiast

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    My laptop has a 2.5GHz Core 2, 4GB RAM, HD 3650 Mobile.

    I had to turn off shadows and anti-aliasing and lower the filtering to blilinear (but I have a suspicion it coulda gone higher than that with not much effect) to get my amazing performance, but other than that, all other specs are on full and it runs like a charm. I luv it, I luv it, I luv it. But I finished it within 2 days :( Oh well :p

    How does it run for you?
     
    Helegad, Dec 7, 2008
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  2. chesieofdarock

    chesieofdarock Notebook Deity

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    I only played the demo, but I got similar resuults with my 8600m gt. My frames did drop however after playing for awhile, but that has been happening a lot lately with heat issues. I'm probably going to have to replace my gpu soon, but I;'m waiting to see if dell adds any new graphics cards before doing so.
     
    chesieofdarock, Dec 7, 2008
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  3. Red_Dragon

    Red_Dragon Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    yeah i played underworld as well and the game looks GORGEOUS! i ran it pretty much maxed out this game is actually demanding so it no surprise you had a hard time running it maxed.
     
    Red_Dragon, Dec 7, 2008
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    tried only the demo...maxed out :p
     
    deedeeman, Dec 7, 2008
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  5. Helegad

    Helegad Notebook Enthusiast

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    Lol, yep, maxed out is the way to go. Pity GTAIV can't get it right.
     
    Helegad, Dec 7, 2008
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  6. Rahul

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    Well, I haven't played a Tomb Raider game in years, but GTA4 has much more to render and calculate, its world is immense with no loading times as you move throughout it, there's many cars on the road, physics to calculate, etc. Though the PC version is definitely not as optimized as it can be, I don't expect performance of GTA4 to be the same as Tomb Raider.
     
    Rahul, Dec 7, 2008
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    too bad GTAIV can barely run
     
    cumbaya19, Dec 7, 2008
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    Helegad Notebook Enthusiast

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    Underworld unfortunately looks a lot better than GTAIV on max settings :(
     
    Helegad, Dec 8, 2008
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    It runs fine on my Thinkpad T400.
     
    jedisolo, Dec 8, 2008
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