Why the problems with the zv6005us

I bought the following configuration two weeks ago and love it:

AMDAthalon 62 3200+
1280MB Ram
128 Meg ati
80 Gig 4200
WinXP home


I'm able to play HL2, EE II with zero problems. You can't beat it for the price. I will admit, this is an upgrade from a Compaq 1525US, so it's a major improvement. It's allot cheaper than a Dell XPS or Alienware Area 51. Am I missing something?

Cope
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13

 

I never adjusted them after installing, but here are what the game says everything is set on:

1024 X 768
Aspect: Normal
Model: Med
Texture detail: Med
Water detail: Reflect World
Shadow detail: High
Antialiasing mode: None
Filtering mode: Trilinear
Shader detail: High
vertical sync: Disabled

Plays with no noticable issues.

Cope
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13

 

What resolution and video settings did you use to play HL2?

 

Will it really make a differance?

Cope
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13

 

Try changing your HL2 aspect to widescreen. 1280x800 will put a little more stress on the GPU but it should handle it.

 

do you know how many FPS you were getting while playing HL2?

~HP Pavilion ZV6000 series~
-AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz
-512MB RAM
-128MB ATI Mobility radeon X200m
-80GB 5400RPM HDD
-15.4" Widescreen w/ Brightview
-DVD±RW W/DL support
-XP Pro
-2X 12-Cell Batteries

 

Don't even know how to tell?

Can you elaborate?

Cope
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13

 

When you start HL2 go into the options and then click on advanced. Check the box that says allow developer console. The push the "~" key (obviously without the quotes) and you should see a little dialog box pop up. type in the box "find showfps" (once again without the quotes). It shoyld show you a few diferent command you can use. The one you are looking for is something like "showFPS 2" or "drawFPS 3" with 2 letters followed by a underscore before the string (ex. "cs_showFPS 2" or "cg_drawFPS 2")or something like that. Type that in and then start playing HL2 like you would any other time and up in the right hand corner you should see some numbers. The one you want is the one that is followed by FPS. The numbers will change so give a range of numbers that you recieve. If you could do this for me i would greatly appreciate it.

Ps. if you cant understand what it is that i am trying to say then type something like "show FPS in HL2" in google and find the command to show the FPS from there.

Cheers!
~mtrivs~
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~HP Pavilion ZV6000 series~
-AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz
-512MB RAM
-128MB ATI Mobility radeon X200m
-80GB 5400RPM HDD
-15.4" Widescreen w/ Brightview
-DVD±RW W/DL support
-XP Pro
-2X 12-Cell Batteries

 

i play wolfenstein: enemy territory perfectly if anyone is interested. kinda like cs.

 

Low was 29 high was 53 average was right under 40FPS. What does it all mean?

Cope
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13

 

oh, also when playing games this lappy remains surprisingly cool. not hot parts. with heavier apps (games) a second fan turns on and vents out at the right.. warm air on your hands lol..

anyways.. my only complaint is that this has the worst glare ever. how am i suppoed to use this in the daytime with windows and lights surrounding meh~?!?

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by bOOm

 

well basically the more FPS, the better the game is performing. FPS actually stands for Frames Per Second. So it is kinda like the speed the game is performing at.

I would have to say that from all the down-talk i am hearing about this machine, these FPS scores here here are plenty to get a smooth gaming experience out of this lappy. Now i wasnt expecting to play doom3 on this, so it is great to know that i can play HL2!

Thank you very much robcope!

mtrivs

~HP Pavilion ZV6000 series~
-AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz
-512MB RAM
-128MB ATI Mobility radeon X200m
-80GB 5400RPM HDD
-15.4" Widescreen w/ Brightview
-DVD±RW W/DL support
-XP Pro
-2X 12-Cell Batteries

 

Also, robcope, if you wanted to get a higher FPS score then you could decrease the quality of things like shadows and water detail. This will give you better performance, but less quality. It all depends on the personal preference. If AA of AF are on, you could also turn them down/off to provide great performance increases as well.

~HP Pavilion ZV6000 series~
-AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz
-512MB RAM
-128MB ATI Mobility radeon X200m
-80GB 5400RPM HDD
-15.4" Widescreen w/ Brightview
-DVD±RW W/DL support
-XP Pro
-2X 12-Cell Batteries

 

Im with Robcope on this one. I'm not a gamer at all, but I wanted to find out what everyone was talking about. So I installed the Doom 3 demo from their website. Which I never played before. I ran it and started playing it. I was waiting for something to happen, like for it to freeze up or my computer to explode or something. But it ran. I continued to play it to the next room where you go to the "underground" dungeon. (I must admit this game is addictive.) And I didn't notice anything except an occasional "click" in the audio. I looked at the setting and it was set to the lowest quality. I tried out all the setting medium, high, i didn't try the highest quality cuz it gives you a warning about having "500 megs." I'm not sure what that means cuz i'm not a gamer so I didn't do that one. But it ran. Is there something I'm missing? I read all these reviews about this laptop and benchmarks and stuff. But I can't find any proof of how "bad" this laptop is.

Compaq r4000
AMD 64 4000+
1 gig Ram

 

ok so i retract my last post. I understand what everyone is talking about. There is definitely lag on the game whenever there is a lot of things going on. it tends to skip or jump. oh well.. i wish i never played this game. cuz it is fun!

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by spdamf

 

ya i have brightview. dark backgrounds blow.

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by bOOm

 

I have the same screen as you

Cope
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13

 

i'm curious what the regular widescreen looks like. when i got the brightview screen, i could definitely do without the glare. It's annoying.

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by spdamf