nvidia go 7700?

i am going to buy the asus g1 somewhere around the end of the month and was wondering how well the 7700 would fare with games like fear,oblivion and gothic 3. i ll probably be playing gothic 3 most tho. thanks

 

its a mid range card so medium settings shud be fine but u cud end up playing with high settings if u settle for lower resolution

 

If my X1600 256mb can run Oblivion on med-high, the 7700 should do it better.

You should be able to run both of those games on medium-high settings.

 

yup, yup. I run oblivion on high settings, native resolution (1440x900) with a bit of tweaking, and while it runs fine indoors or in cities, in the wild it stutters, especialy if there's grass. If you overclock (like me) you can push it just this side of playable. F.E.A.R. fares better since it's an older game. don't know about gothic 3 though.

 

Weird stutters are probably caused by Oblvion loading new areas from your HDD since you have 2gb of RAM.

A 7,200rpm HDD might help aswell as some of the tweaks in the tweakguide for Oblivion at tweakguides.com

 

Are you saying that 2 gb ram is not enough to run oblivion well?

 

If that is the case, I don't see which notebook can. 4 GB RAM would cost you as much as your notebook. I think what he meant was that the bottleneck is the slow Hard drive, not the RAM, which is enough.

 

No,it should be enough,rigs with 2GB's of RAM can Max out Oblivion.Though it's good to free up ram as much as you can.See the Tuning Guide in the guides section.Defragging and this kind of stuff will do good too.
To get a better gameplay experience you'll have to get a better GPU and CPU.(More stress on the GPU).

 

Well i have a fast 5400-rpm (seagate momentus 5400.3, perpendicular recording). What i meant with stuttering (since lag is not the right word, and i can't remember the correct english one) is that the frame-rate is like 13-18 or something (i really hate that tall grass). I still find that playable though, so it's all good.

 

Well it stutters when its loading new areas in game.

No, I did not say 2gb of RAM was not enough. It is enough.

 

I have played Gothic 3 from the beginning to the end at native resolution with medium settings with very little problem. The game looks and plays very well. Some settings can be tweaked to high. Just make sure you have the most recent up to date patch. Fear, at native res runs well with mostly medium setting, high textures. The test feature is great for tweaking it for best frame rate vs eye candy. I have yet play Oblivion for now, it is on my list of things to do though.

 

I run oblivion at high settings. high textures at least shadows low and etc.

a g1 though isnt going to be able to do that at 1680 x 1050. More like medium

 

Can you specify your clock speeds after overclocking?

 

I've clocked the Core to 510 MHz and the Memory to 460 MHz, which are the limits for my card. Other cards may reach better or worse results (I've seen better). I should also mention that I have turned on HDR.

 

Whats HDR and how do you enable it?

 

High dynamic range increases the difference between lights and darks in images (in this case, games) and allows for more graphical details. Not all games support HDR lighting, but if you do decide to enable it, make sure your graphics card can handle the extra performance load (the card first has to support HDR).

 

Yeah can I enable it outside the game?
Like if I use a third party software like RivaTuner.

 

As far as I know, HDR is an in-game option.

 

hey I just ran Ghost Recon at 1400 * 900 resolution,and full settings and its ran just fine!!!!
I didnt even overclock