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    Lotro P-6860 Fx

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by adjas, Jun 24, 2008.

  1. adjas

    adjas Newbie

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    Anyone running LOTRO on a P-6860 FX?

    I've just bought this laptop to run LOTRO and it keeps stuttering and hitching even after setting it to low setting and running it on directx 9 or 10 it's still awful.

    In resources monitor the system is not getting taxed at all.

    I just opened the box and installed LOTRO out of the box and uninstalled all the bloatware.

    It's really annoying that LOTRO runs better on my 2.5 year old laptop (LG S1 Express Dual with XP) than on my newest laptop which I bought for LOTRO.

    go figure.

    any help would be greatly appreciated.
     
    adjas, Jun 24, 2008
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  2. Rotz

    Rotz Notebook Consultant

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    Maybe try to update your video card drivers?

    Usually the drivers that come stock with computers are lacking. There's a thread about this very subject if you navigate your browser to this thread on the forums:

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=262481

    Hope that helps out!
     
    Rotz, Jun 24, 2008
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  3. Quadzilla

    Quadzilla The eye is watching you

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    You should read the vista tweak guide on here if you havent already, also you may want to consider just formatting and starting from scratch(with the OS disk your lappy came with) which there is also a guide on here for that as well which explains how to make backups of all your drivers and apps etc. last but not least you can follow the xp guide and install that os on another partition and dual boot.. lotro will run perfect maxxed out on this system .

    just use the search tab for the stuff recommended and you should get the results your looking for.
     
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  4. Peter Bazooka

    Peter Bazooka Notebook Evangelist

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    Check the fps in the game and if they look good defrag the harddrive. I know that some stuttering can be caused in big open-world games when the game has to access the HDD (if thats the case a defrag could solve the problem). And I know it sounds silly but make sure that you have the computer set to high-performance and that you have it plugged in since some drivers seriuosly downclock the gpu while running on the battery no matter what the performance setting is.
     
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  5. id10t error dfw

    id10t error dfw Notebook Consultant

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    Definetly update the drivers and check for high performance mode, I have it running on a P-6831FX(specs in sig) and it runs flawlessly at the highest settings.
     
    id10t error dfw, Jun 24, 2008
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