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    World of Warcraft in full res on a T61p?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by symphara, Nov 2, 2007.

  1. symphara

    symphara Newbie

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    Has anyone tried playing wow in full resolution (1920) on the 15.4" T61p? I'm very curious to find out, and please include settings such as AA - anticipated thanks for the answer!
     
    symphara, Nov 2, 2007
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    Rorschach Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Well first of all the res you are asking for doesn't exist on a t61p. The t61p can handle crysis and since wow is ancient old now it should play on high settings native res easy.
     
    Rorschach, Nov 3, 2007
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    admlam Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    He's asking about the WUXGA resolution. The answer is yes, but I wouldn't expect you to be able to crank all the settings to maximum.

    Otherwise, WSXGA (1680x1050) should be fine.
     
    admlam, Nov 3, 2007
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    Thrashy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah, WoW is not terribly demanding on any sort of modern hardware. I'm currently running WoW at native res on my WSXGA+ T61p, with all settings on max and 4x AA, and get around 40-50 fps indoors. I'm usually pegged at 60 indoors (tearing bothers me a lot so I have v-sync on). It'll drop to around 30 or so when there's a lot going on (a really intense boss fight in a raid, for example) but is perfectly playable. I'd imagine you'd have to make some adjustments downward on the WUXGA screen, but not very much.
     
    Thrashy, Nov 3, 2007
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    Fignuts Notebook Consultant

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    Confirmed....World of Warcraft plays great on the 15.4" WSXGA+ T61p. I've attached Fraps and nTune event logs for a flight from Shadowmoon Valley to Netherstorm, with max settings (except for multisampling, which was disabled) at 1680x1050, vsync disabled, using stock Lenovo-recommended drivers for everything (including nVidia drivers 6.14.11.5666, aka. Forceware 156.66), and Powermizer disabled.

    Average was about 53 fps, but the benchmarks were bogged down a bit with all the benchmark logging disk activity. GPU temperature went up to about 80 C, from a normal idle of about 60 C (with Powermizer disabled--about 56 C with it enabled).

    Enabling 8x multisampling seemed to reduce framerate about 15-20 fps. Still quite playable. It looks beautiful with or without multisampling. I'm just happy it easily outperforms my old desktop PC with an ATI 9800 Pro.

    PS - the 0 fps readings near the end of the fps log and in the minmaxavg log are from task switching out of WoW to end the benchmark logging.
     

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    Fignuts, Nov 9, 2007
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