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    Acer 5920 + Command&Conquer3

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by dannywanny, Aug 2, 2008.

  1. dannywanny

    dannywanny Notebook Consultant

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    How well can 5920 users get this game to run? I have to turn things down to the "low" setting at 1024 resolution before I get smooth gameplay. On anything else there is noticeable slowdown even at the start of a skirmish with just my base! Any tips or tricks to make it run better on my laptop?

    Cheers!
     
    dannywanny, Aug 2, 2008
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  2. daljeet

    daljeet Notebook Evangelist

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    You don't need to do much to run Pc smoth, you can improve profarmance via running disk cleanup and disk defrangmeter, and for start up, type msconfig in Run, by this you can able to disable unwanted programs run at start up.

    Explore more find more, have a nice day.
     
    daljeet, Aug 2, 2008
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    dannywanny Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks for the ideas. I've just done disk cleanup and defrag, and also disabled startup items (although a still few remain).

    I should have probably given more information about my laptop. It is 8600m GT 256mb DDR2 graphics card. I'm interested to know how other Acer 5920 laptops are managing with C&C3. I've read the 8600m GT benchmark sticky in the "Games" forum, and it said that the 8600m GT DDR2 was capable of 30FPS (the limit) with all settings on high!!!! So I'm a little confused why the game is so slow for me, except when I seriously turn the settings down to low / medium.
     
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    creeco Notebook Enthusiast

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    Witch driver are you using for your card? The stock driver?
     
    creeco, Aug 2, 2008
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    dannywanny Notebook Consultant

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    I was using 175.80 from lv2go, now I've gone back to 174.74 because I heard they were cooler, but I haven't tried C&C3 again yet - I will try soon. I don't really know which nvidia control panel settings to use either - I just turned it to "Performance", expecting that to give best FPS?
     
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    Try installing XP.
     
    SAiLO, Aug 3, 2008
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    creeco Notebook Enthusiast

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    Actually i ran crysis on medium at 1280*800 res on vista, also installing xp wont make any noticeable difference.
     
    creeco, Aug 3, 2008
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