Re: Video performance - Pavilion dv9308nr

On Jun 24, 7:06 am, Colin Wilson
<REMOVEEVERYTHINGBUTnewsgr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just bought said laptop at BestBuy. Specs claim 68MB dedicated RAM and
up to 335 MB available(I upgraded to 2 GB) for the nVidia GeForce Go
6150 graphics card. But... On games that I get 25-30 fps on highest
resolution of desktop machine, I get 9-10 fps on lowest resolution on
laptop. Is this a problem with nVidia, Vista or what?

Do you have a faster gfx chipset on the desktop machine ?


The desktop has an nVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 with 128MB. Mistyped
earlier, laptop card has 64MB dedicated RAM. Have had the desktop for
close to 2 years, so would assume that the laptop should be more
advanced.

Laptops aren't really designed for playing games, and are generally
more accustomed to having to save battery power as against rip-roaring
performance (not an issue on a desktop, where the PSU is straight off
the mains), and from what I remember (i'd have to double-check) the
gfx memory is being shared with the main system memory - this always
drags performance down a little.

Right, I've never really seen a system using shared memory between
video and main memory that performed very well, but I thought since it
had 64MB dedicated and with 2GB there should be some headroom even on
a windows machine. But...

At the price point you will have paid (around $899?) you'd got
yourself a reasonable not-quite-rock-bottom machine

Not complaining about the machine. Very impressed. One of the best
keyboards on a laptop I've ever used. Screen is very clear and
responsive. Sound is remarkable. But... Point of reference: my
daughter has a Gateway that we bought for her about a year ago and her
performance on the same games is comparable and maybe even a little
better than my desktop. It cost a couple hundred dollars less than
this laptop, so I don't believe I'm unreasonable in expecting this
machine to have better video performance.

At any rate, thanks for your reply. If you hear or read about any fix,
please let me know.

Yours,


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