Gaming - dv6tqe/dv7tqe

That actually sounds pretty reasonable from what I've seen people report. Be concerned if you start pushing 90+ Celsius on either component. Sure, get a laptop cooler. I don't think it will solve this problem, but always nice to keep things cooler/improve airflow just for the sake of longevity of the part.

Could be hard drive stutters? Server lag?

 

Yeah, it's beyond resolution though. If you want a laugh, fire up Crysis 2 and pay good attention to shadows. The shadows from tree leaves look like Target logos. The shadows from alien ships stutter across buildings. There are awesome moments and set pieces that are wrecked by janky graphics.

DAO is definitely a good example of an ugly console version. First time I fired it up on the 360 was totally disappointing, and I just couldn't make it very far at all because the textures were HIDEOUS and the load times were unbearable.

 

OK...i tried GTA IV....am getting 20-30 fps maxed....out.....1080p .....all maxed...out ...wiht anti alliazing ...
Are These impressive results...i thought the FPS should be around 40-50

 

IIRC, GTA4 is a horrible benchmark for a GPU as the game itself is primarily CPU bottlenecked.

Edit: Yes, I believe I'm correct. Looking at some other laptops, an i7 2920XM with a GTX 485M on high (assuming full HD) is only pulling about 62 fps. The same laptop on low detail only gets 65 fps. A properly GPU optimized game should see a considerably larger improvement going from high to low if the GPU were the bottleneck.

The game is a terrible benchmark. Go use something else.

 

Ok so how did u managed to get anti aliasing?? I mean did u used enb series??? And Could u please tell me the version... I guess its 0.76

 

But the i7 2630qm is not a bad cpu ... I was thinking he should get more than 20-30 fps too

 

That's his point though, the 2920XM is an amazing CPU, and the 485m is a top of the line GPU, and it still only pulls 62.

The game is just badly optimized for PC.

 

It's not a bad CPU at all, it's a poorly coded game that's the problem.

As always, take notebookcheck scores with a grain of salt, but if you look over the entirety of all of their GTA4 benchmarks, NOTHING scores over 66 on even the lowest listed graphics settings. That's a GTX 485M with an i7 2920XM getting the same score as an i7 2720 (Radeon 6750M), as the i7 2630 (GT 540M), barely above a Core 2 Quad Q9100 (GTX 260M), etc.

The i7 2720 with a 6750M (so one bin up on CPU, one bin down on GPU) only scores 32 fps on high, and since that's a MacBook Pro that's not even at Full HD. Based on that, the dv6's 2630 and 6770M at full HD and high settings are probably scoring about right.

It's a bad game to use as a benchmark, plain and simple.

 

which game do i benchmark against??

 

QFT.

Pick another game. ANY other game. Any modern game other than GTA4 will provide a better gaming benchmark for you to compare again.

Ok, no Minecraft either... <-- couldn't resist...

 

Shhhhh don't talk about minecraft

 

Battlefield Bad Company 2 , Crysis, COD Black Ops, STALKER, Total War Shogun 2, Civilization V would be interesting. But those cost $ if you don't have them.

How about either Lord of the Rings Online or Age of Conan, both of which are free online?

 

As would Starcraft 2. If it's anything like the original in terms of popularity (I'd wager it is...), then that game will last a good decade.

Steam is having a lot of sales this week, and it changes every day. Check to see if anything interests you. TF2 is free now. Not the most graphically intense game any more, but perhaps something that can be a common test for Source engine games now that it's free (and popular?).

I always have to take MMO benchmarks with huge grains of salt. So many other factors play into it like server load, time of day (are you in Orgrimmar at 7 AM or 7 PM; big difference in the number of people it has to render), connection latency, etc. Useful if you play said MMO though.

 

Ok guys new update....i felt like going back to the age old CS:Zero....but to my horror...it was on software mode when i ran the game...and it wont switch to D3D and neither to widescreen......now this is gonna be a big problem..............for me...cause i grew up playing CS................

Anyone else with the same issue

 

First of all everyone should go look at this if they want to see the future of games graphics...
GTA4 + iCEnhancer mod. Holy mother of god. - Page 19 - NeoGAF
Second do you think a DV6t quad could run this? Or to that point could any laptop run this?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=436159

 

Play CS:Source, problem fixed.

 

Not related to your problem, but do you experience a severe hit to framerate with AF enabled? I can max out TF2 with 8xAA at 1920x1200 and get over 60fps constantly, but when I enable any AF that drops to around 40. I just keep it on Trilinear because of that but it sometimes looks ugly.

 

Speaking of TF2, is anyone else experiencing flickering underwater and at menus?

 

No, but I do get flickering in some other games, namely Cities XL 2011 in fullscreen mode and FUEL on menus and occasionally in-game

 

Havent purchased it yet

 

It's $13 on Steam. If you have the extra cash, I recommend it.

 

get the L4D bundle instead, it's half as expensive and much better

 

I'm like a kid in a candy store on Steam now, can't wait until this machine comes in, I'm gonna go broke buying games.

 

better buy them now while the summer sale is going on

 

I'm getting 20-30 fps on Global Agenda (Free steam mmo/shooter).
I have it set to high performance, I don't know why it's so low...

 

That's weird, I am getting like 60 fps on 1080p on high, no AA.

 

Anyone test Bad Company 2 at 1080p?

 

You probably don't have your AMD GPU switched on. My bet is that you're running the game on your Intel HD 3000.

 

Just play tf2, it's better than CS and CS Source

 

Are you kidding me. CS: Source in my opinion is a much better game. But this is my opinion.

 

The thing is, the card not switching happens even when I don't get a warning and nothing is running...

- Qlippoth

 

Why would the card switch if nothing is running? That serves no purpose at all...

 

I second that......cs:s rocks

 

I have the 6000 series, manual switching.

The switch software SAYS it is set to the ATi card, but plays MKVs allmessed up and with corruption and Duke Nukem Forever plays like crap. Like I said, not reliably switching. I'm goin to reinstall to factory settings and do no driver updates for graphics, see if that helps.

EDIT: Oops, so yeah, I meant from ATi -> Intel, MKVs are scrwey. Switch back to ATi plays fine. Intel -> ATi, Duke is slow, have to reboot a few time to get the ATi actually working.
If I could figure out how to switch reliably I'd be fine, I tend to either game exclusivly in a session, but want it set to Intel 90% of the time for everything else (quiet, cooler).

- Qlippoth

 

CS with gungame, so fun.

- Qlippoth

 

It would normally throw that warning in all cases unless you check the Don't prompt me again. That flag would never throw the prompt and tries to switch.

If it fails to switch, then something you installed and running in the background is blocking it. <- Another common issue with manual switching, no thanks to AMD automatic fail check if in use situation, introduced since 10.9.

 

I'll look for it when I get home.

Thanks!
- Qlippoth

 

Thats all i do

 

Haha thank God i dint purchase cs source last night...it came on 75 % of this morning.....5$ lol.....man steams gonna have all of us bankrupt pretty soon

 

I am not sure if it just was an isolated case for me, but i once bought a game for full price and then less then 24 hours it went on sale. I contacted steam and they refunded me the difference. LOVE STEAM!

 

I think that's a general policy they have, but I'm not sure as to how long this "price protection" is available. I've anecdotally seen people mention having done that with Steam customer service in other threads here, but it's generally something that went on sale just shortly after purchase (1-2 days).

 

Steam is great but I think everyone forgets they are a business and they want you to believe they are on your side.

 

Ok ...tested CS:Source....am happy with the results.....50-65 FPS ..on everything maxed...out...see here http://imageshack.us/f/171/testpe.jpg/

 

the fps from playing games is a bit unreliable due to the lot of factors (number of people in server, some maps are create inefficiently, etc). i'm thinking to have a more standard benchmark do the video stress test with those settings and see what average fps you get?

 

I could care less whose side they're on, as long as I can buy Arkham Asylum for 7.50.

 

Stress test gave more like 60-65

 

i would have done it on my comp for a point of comparison but i returned my dv6 =/ i'm sure there are plenty of people out there with cs:s i remember when I had my lapptop...like there would a random times in which the fps dropped real low for like 1 second or 2, the computer seemed to slow down...and then everthign returned to normal...never figured out what it was..

 

Yeah, I got in on that. Someday I might even have time to play games. :/

- Qlippoth

 

What max temps do people get when playing games and what kind of framerates do you get with Bad Company 2 at 1080p with medium detail?

 

someone want to test a game that actually challenges the 6770m?