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    outrun 2006 on acer 5920g

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by andythrill, Oct 10, 2007.

  1. andythrill

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    hi guys,ive been playing outrun2006 coast to coast on my acer 5920g laptop and i love the game but what annoys me is the way the game pauses for a split second at the end of each level,is this normal for this game or do i have a graphics issue,my laptop has the 8600gt at 256mb,most of my other games seem ok,i know outrun is a bit of a dated game now but im a bit of a fan,ild just like it run better,any views would be much appreciated,ive updated my graphics driver but has made no difference :confused:
     
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    provide the drivers of ur video card, please. perhaps, u might also want to consider checking out this website: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com
     
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    its the 163.44,thought it would be ok
     
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    should work fine. what os are u rinning the game on?
     
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    the almighty vista
     
    andythrill, Oct 11, 2007
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    well, the almighty has the tendency, from what i've seen, to not cooperate properly with some games...hence, the almighty haha
     
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    yeah your right mate,lol
     
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    i take it ild be better off with xp
     
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    i'm not trying to offend vista lovers or anything, but i do really enjoy what xp has to offer as of right now. i don't really care for the eye-candy.
     
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    does running norton still have negative affects on playing games?the only problem in outrun is the split second pause as you go from one level to the next,the harddrive light comes on as well as if it is loading something suppose it could just be normal,does anybody know?
     
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    Close or disable all AV programs while playing game is recommended
     
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    agreed. well, that one second pause might very well be the hard-drive loading textures/level details, etc...
     
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    bigspin would there be any av programs running?ive gone into task manager and nothing is showing,could there be something else running in the background?
     
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    sorry bigspin ,iknow what you mean now,do you know how iturn off the free norton software that came with the 5920 i cant see away of turning it off or disabling it
     
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    Sorry I never use resource hog Norton products.. :cool:
    I uninstall it ASAP when i got my 5920 to my hands and now using Kaspersky
     
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    its ok bigspin ive now worked it out,so do you really think keeping av running while playing games could have an affect on performance,if yes why?
     
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    because most antivuruses have tendency to eat up a lot of resources like ur ram and give ur cpu a run for the money... when scan is active, ur hard drive is also active, that's when u hear it working loud.
     
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    thanks guys for all your replys.end of topic
     
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    B'coz AV scan your background files and use some CPU cycles .Games load large sum of files to the memory & you can see some lagging when AV scan them while load into system memory
     
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