openGL games with FireGL V5200

i have been experiencing some problems playing Call of Duty with my Thinkpad T60p which has a FireGL V5200. the pictures are awful and i experienced lags all the time. i've tried omega drivers, radeon drivers, mobility drivers, nothing worked. can anyone help me how can i do it properly? thanks.

 

Welcome to the world of workstation cards. They don't work well with games in general. Go with the default drivers from IBM, those will probably work the best for you.

 

thats not entirely true. my quadro 1500m play oblivion flawlessly at the highest settings, and graw perfectly as well. every game i haev tried on it plays perfectly, mabye just ati open gl cards dont game well, i dont know. but i do know that my 1500m has mad game.

 

Yeah, the nVidia Quadro 1500M and 2500M are very nice, but ATi isn't really known for their OpenGL support. Like Pitabred said, just try going back to the default IBM drivers... they usually work best for workstation cards. If you still have terrible performance, you may need to get your computer checked out. As far as I've seen, the 1500M and the 2500M are the only two workstation cards available that hold their own in games so well.

 

My buddy also has a Quadro card. It won't show the water in HL2. Shaders, etc. just won't work in the workstation cards, and he quite possibly is running into those kinds of issues. Perhaps you just don't know what you're missing when you say it runs perfectly?

 

ATI is known to have somewhat shaky OpenGL support.

If you then try to play OpenGL *games* on an ATI *workstation* card, I think the results are to be expected.

As said above, workstation cards aren't even guaranteed to render games correctly. That's not what they're made for.

 

I've seen issues on Nvidia Quadro cards as well, so their workstation cards arent perfect either.

But I usually say that there will be issues gaming on a workstation card and someone always comes in and flames me.

 

Yes, there are problems with workstation cards, even the Quadro FX 1500M and 2500M. Ford Racing 3 for instance does not work on my computer. It doesn't bother me cause I don't play the game. But the demo refused to work right. But basically, they are the same as the 7900GS and the 7900GTX, they just feature an OpenGL based BIOS and drivers as far as I can tell. I've heard that the BIOS can be flashed to a 7900 BIOS, but so far I have seen no reason to do so. And I have the HL2 demo, and unless I'm just missing somehting, I have seen no problems. Is there supposed to be water anywhere in the demo? If you can tell me where, I'll check it out and see if there are problems.

Twilight Vampire, I am not trying to flame you at all here; generally you are right. Workstation cards, and specifically the desktop cards, are not a good idea for gaming. But it seems that the 1500M/2500M are an exception to this rule. Maybe nVidia decided to save money and just rework the BIOS and drivers for the 7900 and rebrand it as a workstation card... I don't know. But I cannot speak for the FireGLs. Last I heard, the v5200 was based on the x1600 core, but having never used either of the cards, I can't say.

 

Sorry for bringing up this dumb question, but what kind of games are Opengl based, and how about those direct3D based games' performance on a Firegl5200?
I am planning to buy a t60p soon, but would also wanna play some games occasionally. SO I am curious to know how strong is the Firegl 5200's gaming capability.
Thank you for your reply!

 

I can play CS:Source on high settings without a problem, but Company of Heroes I run on Low shader quality.

EDIT: I can also play the BF2142 demo fine on Low settings

 

i think id notice if water was missing.....mabye the quadro doesnt play every game in the world well, but the games that i play, it plays perfectly

 

When I try to play WoW with OpenGL enabled on a FireGL V5200, my FPS drops from 40-60 down to 3-9. It's totally unplayable and stutters horribly. I wouldn't want to see how bad it is on more advanced OpenGL games. This happens with both the latest Lenovo and ATI drivers.

 

I'm afraid your video card may be broken. The V5200 shouldnt have any problems at all with WOW.