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    tweaking crysis

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Shirley, Jan 9, 2008.

  1. Shirley

    Shirley Notebook Enthusiast

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    just bought a xps 1530 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T500 Vista Premium w/
    15.4 in LCD 1680x1050 w/ 3GB RAM w/ 120GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive &
    256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT.

    Don't know much about vista yet. 1st system w/ vista. Is there anything that I need to look out for (background jobs that vista may incorporate) that may hinder my crysis performance? Anything I need to tweak on the vista side that might improve my performance? I saw a topic on this the other day and I tried the "search" function and still can't find the dang thing. any hints on vista?

    what's a good site to download a program to check my benchmarks?

    what's the current stable nvidia driver for the 8600GT?

    thanks a million.
     
    Shirley, Jan 9, 2008
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    jin07 Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    KockM Notebook Evangelist

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    Disable the transparency in the display settings. That will increase performance. Another thing to do is make sure you have the most recent drivers. Just make sure you uninstall the current drivers first, restart, install the new drivers, and then you should be all set. Another way could be to go into your nVidia control panel, manage 3d settings, advanced, find crysis.exe, then add your crysis game file to that. That is all I can reccomend. http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=16545 Is the link for the "most" stable drivers for Vista 32-Bit.
     
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    lozanogo Notebook Deity

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    To maximize the performance of such demanding ways there is an alternate way instead of clean install: clean boot ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796). Basically you only load the windows processes instead of everything else, saving lots of resources. Note however that this boot will disable the antivirus (since its not a windows process) so it is not safe to web-browse during this boot.
     
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    onlycopunk Notebook Consultant

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    First things first, do a fresh install of Vista only, not all the HP jargon. So you can start fresh.
     
    onlycopunk, Jan 9, 2008
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