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« on: May 03, 2010, 04:43:58 PM »
I have a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop that I've been playing on for a few years.  The thing is, the laptop has an intel integrated video card, which sucks for playing games.  For the last few years I've been playing in windowed mode (3/4th laptop screen) which doesn't bother me at all, but what does bother me is for the most part it feels like playing in 35FPS, even though I do a timerefresh it says 58 or so.  Sometimes it's good, but when there is more action it is a huge problem.  So I have turned off a shitload of services, and all the processes running.  I have done that before, but I did it again, and hopefully it will be better. 

Can someone post an ideal configuration for this?  Ideally I'd like to not go to software mode, which if I recall correctly doesn't even play right on this computer.  I don't care about the graphics.

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Re: shitty video card
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2010, 07:38:07 PM »
You could suck it up and go get a new computer already....of course that would exhaust an excuse for you.

They're cheap, hell, if over the last couple years you put aside 1 dollar a day you could of already had a new one.
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Re: shitty video card
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2010, 09:35:01 PM »
Intel onboard gfx just sucks ass. My laptop has that and it can't run a solid 90fps unless I play it in software mode while windowed. If I tried to play the game in Opengl or D3D with low settings, an explosion or rocket trail would give me a 20-35 hit in fps.

I guess you could turn off projectile trails (if you can find a way for it not to turn off rail or cell shots), and I've seen people use simple explosions, although I wonder how they did that.

That's all I really can think of. I mainly posted to bitch about my shitty laptop.

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Re: shitty video card
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2010, 02:32:53 AM »
there's got to be a minimal configuration, when I do timerefresh it says 58, but only feels like 30 when there is action.  To me 60 feels just fine.
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Re: shitty video card
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2010, 02:45:37 AM »
there's got to be a minimal configuration, when I do timerefresh it says 58, but only feels like 30 when there is action.  To me 60 feels just fine.

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Re: shitty video card
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2010, 03:08:21 AM »
when I do timerefresh it says 58, but only feels like 30 when there is action

Use "timedemo 1" to obtain more realistic average fps metrics than timerefresh.

Example, on my none-too-special desktop system:

] timedemo 1
] demomap demo1.dm2

689 frames, 2.0 seconds: 349.4 fps


If you want to work the CPU a bit harder, there's the old standard Q2 "crusher" demo:

http://tastyspleen.net/~quake2/demos/crusher.dm2


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Re: shitty video card
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2010, 04:28:52 AM »
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money isn't burning holes in my pocket, and I have bigger problems than a computer now so I am working with what I have.

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awesome, I will post the results.  although something is wrong for sure, because it feels like star trek warp speed when there is action, I also turned off every possible service in windows and all processes..
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Re: shitty video card
« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2010, 07:05:27 AM »
for some reason when i play in windowed mode, by using alt+enter, i get lower fps than on full screen.
the only way for me to get more fps on a bigger screen is to lower my GL_mode,
find out what mode u are using (its the resolution) for me, thats the fix, on GL_mode 4 i get plenty fps, Gl_mode 5 playable, but not nice, any gl_mode above 5 totally eats my fps..

Mode -1: Custom resolution
Mode 0: 320x240
Mode 1: 400x300
Mode 2: 512x384
Mode 3: 640x480
Mode 4: 800x600
Mode 5: 960x720
Mode 6: 1024x768
Mode 7: 1152x864
Mode 8: 1280x960
Mode 9: 1600x1200
Mode 10: 2048x1536
Mode 11: 1024x480
Mode 12: 1280x768
Mode 13: 1280x1024

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Re: shitty video card
« Reply #8 on: May 04, 2010, 10:08:58 AM »
I got 56 FPS with FPS capped at 60 (I picked a random demo so I'm pretty sure that doesn't matter), maybe it is fixed, since I just recently turned a bunch of services off.

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Re: shitty video card
« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2010, 12:24:02 PM »
for some reason when i play in windowed mode, by using alt+enter, i get lower fps than on full screen.
the only way for me to get more fps on a bigger screen is to lower my GL_mode,
find out what mode u are using (its the resolution) for me, thats the fix, on GL_mode 4 i get plenty fps, Gl_mode 5 playable, but not nice, any gl_mode above 5 totally eats my fps..

It was always my understanding that games, especially older ones, run faster in fullscreen because it stops trying to update the display for windows or any other window handle that is open. When you run in windowed mode, it is still drawing and refreshing everything else in the background. This should be trivial on machines of today but that's what I read in my age old DirectX book.
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« Reply #10 on: May 04, 2010, 01:38:20 PM »
I'm pretty sure the video is messed up sizing wise but it doesn't bother me, like the screen is 3/4th size but the rest is black..
I remember trying a whole bunch of settings and without software that's all it would do, unless I missed something.
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