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    M40 : Anyone had any luck running a game?

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by heaveny38, Feb 20, 2005.

  1. heaveny38

    heaveny38 Notebook Consultant

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    It may sound like a stupid question, but I tried running Doom 3 and Lord of The Rings - Battle for Middle-Earth, two games that I've tried and runned successfully on my previous laptop (FX5600) and my desktop (Rade9600), and none of them works. The whole thing just stalls exactly when the game tries to enter 3D mode.

    In fact, everything seems not to work as it should, I'm starting to think there's something wrong in this machine. Like the Wireless adapter, I'm having heaps of problems with my connection.

    Aaahhh!!
     
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  2. heaveny38

    heaveny38 Notebook Consultant

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    I'm serious, I even tried reinstalling everything from scratch and now I have new results, which are strange, I think there's something that's really defective in my unit.

    3dMark2005: works
    3dMark2003: shows frames, garbled frames, black screen
    Doom 3: intro runs, but games either hangs or show black screen (I can hear the sounds and 'play')
    LOTR - Battle for Middle Earth: Doesn't even start, hang on start
    GL Excess: works

    Now what should I think?
     
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    Bluemax43 Notebook Guru

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    Wow, problems with my potential baby M40, hm.. sounds like defective unit. Somebody was saying on toshiba forum that M40's GPU was giving him great results - high number of frame count, high scores in 3Dmark etc. Try maybe installing a Sandra software which benchmarking/diagnostics software.
     
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  4. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    What video car is in the unit? If it's like the M45 we got and has integrated graphics, you can't run those games.

    Brian

    www.BargainPDA.com | www.DigitalCameraReview.com | www.NotebookReview.com | www.SpotStop.com | www.TabletPCReviewSpot.com
     
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  5. heaveny38

    heaveny38 Notebook Consultant

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    It's an Nvidia GeForce 6600 128mb dedicated DDR :) The M40 is not exactly the same as the M45 :)
     
    heaveny38, Feb 21, 2005
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    reedikulous Notebook Enthusiast

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    it should have no problem, I just tried out the doom3 demo for kicks. It ran perfectly fine on my system, I think the fan might have kicked in once or twice.. so I don't think it was even trying... oh and that was on battery power :) So I would say call tech about it something is wrong there.
     
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    heaveny38 Notebook Consultant

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    I did call a toshiba tech, he was not of great help, he said that according to "Toshiba's policy", they would not bother about my problem, that anything software that's not preloaded on the machine isn't guaranteed to work, bla bla bla... And then he said to return it to the store, which I did yesterday, I'm now waiting for my replacement... dammit, this kinda thing always happens to me :(
     
    heaveny38, Feb 22, 2005
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  8. The Chemist

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    I just got an M40 this past weekend, and I checked it out running Need For Speed: Porsche Unleashed - it was fantastic. I ran at the highest possible resolution (1280x1024x32 bit colour), with all detail settings set to the highest possible, and the game ran faster than I've ever seen on any other machine I've used it on.

    I'm very happy with my M40 so far. I can't wait to try Doom 3. :)

    Toshiba Satellite M40

    Pentium-M 1.6 GHz | 512MB RAM | 128 MB nVidia Geforce GO 6600
     
    The Chemist, Feb 22, 2005
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