Half Life 2 on mobility 9700

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NexusX

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anyone have n idea on how well my inspiron 9100 will run the "best game ever made"?
system includes:
3.2ghz HT prescott 800FSB 1mb L2
640mb pc 3200
ATi 9700M 128mb ... goodenough to play on highest or close too? n to hang with the big boys

will there be a noticable difference upgrading to the 9800256mb?
 
The 9700 is no biatch, you should run it pretty well at 1024by768 at least... and i mean At Least. Especially with that cpu and ram.

~Adam
 
yeah it should be fine... 1024x980 max settings..... 1280x960 if ya wanna bump down some aa and af
 
sounds like it can happen, i dont plan on usin AA...AF 8 or 16x is a must @ 1280x800 widescreen

i wonder if my 2 year old 1800+ can handle the job. HL2 cpu intensive?
the 9500pro should keep holdin on, like it always has :cool:
 
erm.. maybe not so much, I think your 9700 would handle it much better than your 9500pro could. Mostly because of the cpu.

~Adam
 
CleanSlate said:
erm.. maybe not so much, I think your 9700 would handle it much better than your 9500pro could. Mostly because of the cpu.

~Adam
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Actually, the 9700 mobility does not really compare to the desktop 9700. The mobility 9700 has 4 pipelines and 128-bit memory. Its basically just a higher-clocked mobility 9600.
 
dunnno said:
Actually, the 9700 mobility does not really compare to the desktop 9700. The mobility 9700 has 4 pipelines and 128-bit memory. Its basically just a higher-clocked mobility 9600.
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Ohh yea, I forgot about that... That's still a hard choice though.. it'd be neck and neck but the 9500pro would probably win. 9700 is a great card though.

~Adam
 
just waitin on the 9800M (m12) 256mb 8 pipe 256bit to drop price ... btw is this the last laptop 8x agp card goin to be released?
 
NexusX said:
just waitin on the 9800M (m12) 256mb 8 pipe 256bit to drop price ... btw is this the last laptop 8x agp card goin to be released?
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Yeah I'm pretty sure it is, all the new laptops with a Mobile X800 or Mobile 6800 are all PCI-Express.

Definitely get a M-9800 if you can it has 8 pipelines so its a lot closer to its desktop brethren.
 
Here are my scores on my Inspiron 9100 with a moblity 9700 64mb. I have a P4 2.8 and only 512mb of ram.

These are my settings:
res: 1280x800 (native)
model detail: med
texture detail: med
water detail: reflect world
shadow detail: high
AA mode: 2X
filtering mode: AF4X
shader detail: high
wait for vsync: disabled

at_c17_12: 43 fps
at_canals_08: 36 fps

If I push it up to high model detail and high texture detail and 4XAA instead of 2X I get:
at_c17_12: 32 fps

The game is quite playable at native resolution. It is less demanding on my notebook than Farcry was.
 
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