bioshock performance on T61 140M ?

I bought the game, and it's almost unplayable. (nvidia 162.50 drivers)
I'm playing it at 800x600 with low quality settings, and it's still jerky.
My specs are pretty top of the line other than the GPU, so I don't see any options.
I thought that this card would at least allow light gaming....
maybe I just need a desktop

 

I didn't bother with a discrete graphics card on my notebook because I had a feeling it would be like that.

New games like World in Conflict are even pushing my X1900XTX to its limit, so I didn't even want to try it on a notebook.

 

im getting like 25-35 fps on medium settings on my t61p. you should not expect much from the t61, it is not built for intensive 3d apps.

 

it's a shame, but I really wanted the 14" widescreen T61.
I wish they offered the 14" wide T61p (and with 256mb VRam - what's the deal with that!)

It wouldn't be worth me getting a desktop right now, as it'd only be better in GPU. (would feel like a waste of $1k just for graphics!)
Maybe I'll get a Barcelona (Phenom) later

 

This game does have a lot of issues with graphics cards and even after downloading the nVIDIA drivers that were "supposed" to be compatible with this game. Im pretty sure BIOSHOCK is going to come up with a patch soon. Your card should be able to play at those settings fairly well so im sure its a driver issue. Heck I have crash issues the moment I start this game on my T61. lol

 

I really question Nvidia's commitment to the Quadro 140M, they have released 1 driver, no updates. The card has the specs to be a decent card, but they don't seem to show themselves in real world performance (they seem to work ok for the benchmarks, but it is not uncommon for card makers to detect benchmarks and do special treatment).

If you look at other nvidia cards, they post driver updates frequently, even if the update doesn't update anything critical, the driver for the T61 was released in May I believe and hasn't been touched since. You know there have got to be fixes, nothing is ever perfect the first time.

 

Get the 163.44 nvidia drivers and you should notice a big improvement.

 

where are these drivers at? Are you sure it will work ok with the 140M?

 

Yes, It will work perfectly fine. Here: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=14562 My 3DMark 05 score is 3451.

 

Thanks, I have installed it and I can confirm that it is a great driver for the 140M and it does run my games better. Thanks again, big help.

 

Always welcome.

 

how do u handle bioshock now?
what other games have u tried, and what kind of fps did you get for each?

 

man, im loving Bioshock on these drivers! Just played about 30-45 mins of it on 800X600 on MAX settings and other than a bit choppy performance during battle scenes (understandable) I just love playing it at these settings and 1024X768 on medium setting is smooth as well so IMO it's no problem playing Bioshock under these settings but ofcourse you might have a different preference. As long as you don't have unrealisic expectations like it's gonna play like an 8800GTX, then you will really appreciate this card.

 

nice, i never planned on playing bioshock, but seems like 140M should handle SC2 pretty well.

have you tried wow, or war3? or CS/hl2/CS:S

 

No, I haven't tried WOW or WAR3, but my next game (all time favorite) will be BF2, so I will post the results here, although im pretty sure BF2 will run very well since im having no problems with Bioshock.

 

I just installed the BioShock demo on my T61 with a 140M and the game won't even load up!

I have the 163.44 drivers from laptopvideo2go as mentioned in this thread. But the game just crashes before even getting to the menu screen.

Team Fortress 2 runs fine...what am I missing? Someone mentioned something a while ago about a DX10 fix? Do I need it?

 

how about for the t61p with the 570m 256mb gddr3 gpu?? Is there a stable driver out there that will allow me to play it maxed with directx 10 without crashing? Cuz everything works fine maxed out with directx 9, but not so for directx10 =[ ?