- Dec 10, 2005
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Hi there guys!
Yesterday i took delivery of my new Dell Vostro 1700 and overall i'm very pleased with it. The performance in games using Source engine, Oblivion and a few others all run very well, i'm quite impresssed with it. I've even overclocked the GPU to give a little extra performance. The system specs are:
17" Widescreen @ Native res of 1440x900
3gb RAM
2 x 5400rpm 160gb hard drives
8600m GT 256 @ 580mhz Core 490mhz memory
The OS is Vista Business, which i'm assuming is the same as Premium with some added networking features? Anyway down to the nitty gritty of the problem. As it had played all my other games on it i wanted to try playing a bit of Crysis. However, this is where the problems arise and the system seems to just choke. I ran it at a resolution of 1280x800 at the auto-detected medium details and i was getting 2 fps, which considering the performance i get in other games is a bit weird. I then dropped the resolution to 800x600 and the details to the lowest possible and the performance only improved to about 4 fps. I updated Crysis to the 1.1 patch and that had no effect. i know that i can't run the game at high details, as i'm very aware of the 8600m GTs performance but i should be able to get at least a 30fps average in 1280x800 at medium details, rather than the 2 fps i'm currently getting (And when i say 2 fps, i mean fraps is telling me the game is running at 2 fps and ti looks like a slideshow!).
I have no idea what the problem could be, although i will be updating the graphics driver later. the only other thing i can think of is formatting the notebook and getting rid of the dell bloatware, but then i don't think they gave me a copy of windows vista business on CD which means i'd have to go back to XP which i don't really want to do.
Does anyone know what the problem could be? I scoured the internet and these forums but to no avail, i'm getting pretty desperate! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Quantum Sheep.
Yesterday i took delivery of my new Dell Vostro 1700 and overall i'm very pleased with it. The performance in games using Source engine, Oblivion and a few others all run very well, i'm quite impresssed with it. I've even overclocked the GPU to give a little extra performance. The system specs are:
17" Widescreen @ Native res of 1440x900
3gb RAM
2 x 5400rpm 160gb hard drives
8600m GT 256 @ 580mhz Core 490mhz memory
The OS is Vista Business, which i'm assuming is the same as Premium with some added networking features? Anyway down to the nitty gritty of the problem. As it had played all my other games on it i wanted to try playing a bit of Crysis. However, this is where the problems arise and the system seems to just choke. I ran it at a resolution of 1280x800 at the auto-detected medium details and i was getting 2 fps, which considering the performance i get in other games is a bit weird. I then dropped the resolution to 800x600 and the details to the lowest possible and the performance only improved to about 4 fps. I updated Crysis to the 1.1 patch and that had no effect. i know that i can't run the game at high details, as i'm very aware of the 8600m GTs performance but i should be able to get at least a 30fps average in 1280x800 at medium details, rather than the 2 fps i'm currently getting (And when i say 2 fps, i mean fraps is telling me the game is running at 2 fps and ti looks like a slideshow!).
I have no idea what the problem could be, although i will be updating the graphics driver later. the only other thing i can think of is formatting the notebook and getting rid of the dell bloatware, but then i don't think they gave me a copy of windows vista business on CD which means i'd have to go back to XP which i don't really want to do.
Does anyone know what the problem could be? I scoured the internet and these forums but to no avail, i'm getting pretty desperate! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Quantum Sheep.
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