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    Dell Studio 15 and gaming

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by qmrneo, May 25, 2010.

  1. qmrneo

    qmrneo Notebook Consultant

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    Hi :)

    Its being a month for my first laptop. I was always upgrading my desktop as really power place to be for gaming. But finally thought to try on laptop. So ordered:

    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
    Video Adapter: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
    Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz
    1080p
    4GB RAM

    But really felt bad when not able to run GTA4 on my machine. Any help friends....


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    Statistics
    Average FPS: 18.86
    Duration: 37.32 sec
    CPU Usage: 39%
    System memory usage: 56%
    Video memory usage: 33%

    Graphics Settings
    Video Mode: 1280 x 720 (60 Hz)
    Texture Quality: Low
    Shadow Quality: Off
    Reflection Resolution: Low
    Water Quality: Low
    Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x2
    Night Shadows: Off
    View Distance: 1
    Detail Distance: 1
     
    qmrneo, May 25, 2010
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  2. Illegal Operation

    Illegal Operation Notebook Evangelist

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    If you don't get any hits here, you may want to try the gaming discussion section. As for GTA4 and that laptop, your weak link is obviously the video card. The HD5470 is only an entry level direct x11 card and it is sure to dissapoint if you want to max settings on a lot of games. There are much better cards for laptops that will play that game.

    The only thing I can suggest, if you haven't done it already is try decreasing the resolution you're playing at if you're set to 1080. There is noooo way you will get decent frame rates with that card at that high a resolution. The game is playable with some tweaks but you will never get stellar performance.

    Good Luck to you!
     
    Illegal Operation, May 25, 2010
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  3. qmrneo

    qmrneo Notebook Consultant

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    I have tried with the least setting as:
    800x600 with all low or turned off. The game is playable but jerky gameplay. Which make hell to play it. Working around to find some solution so that it become smooth, so I can play it atleast. Updated driver, updated patches.But no as such solution yet....
     
    qmrneo, May 26, 2010
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  4. saikoushik

    saikoushik Newbie

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    my laptop has also same configuration , but when i try to play pes 2010 on high settings without connecting AC adapter game playing was little bit shaky , but if i connect charger it is working smooth

    any help please
     
    saikoushik, May 26, 2010
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  5. qmrneo

    qmrneo Notebook Consultant

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    It is to save the battery charge while not on AC. It is ok.
     
    qmrneo, May 26, 2010
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    I've read that GTA4 isn't optimized for ATI GPUs. Apparently a lot of people with ATI cards have similar problems. I have read a lot of posts where people couldn't play GTA4 on the Dell Studio Laptops.
     
    albertfish, May 26, 2010
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  7. qmrneo

    qmrneo Notebook Consultant

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    Finally I have uninstalled the game and returned my GTA Liberty city DVD(which I bought with excitement to play with GTA4 ).
    Time to move on.......
     
    qmrneo, May 27, 2010
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