Tuesday, May 24, 2005

So I got a laptop and it rocks!!!!!!!!!

Check it out with all its magesty!!!

Compaq Presario R4000

- Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Home Edition with SP2
- AMD Sempron(TM) 3000+ (1.8GHz/128KB L2 Cache)
- 15.0" TFT XGA (1024x768)
- 128MB ATI RADEON(R) XPRESS 200M w/Hypermemory(TM)
- 512MB DDR SDRAM (2x256MB)
- 60 GB 4200 RPM Hard Drive
- 8X DVD Drive
- Integrated 56K Modem + 10/100 Ethernet LAN
- 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
- Microsoft(R) Works/Money

And revel you dogs, because this compy was cheap as free! It'll take a little getting use to, but so far I've installed a ton of games on it, and the DVD player works perfectly on it. :D

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi,
Wondering what games you've played using this notebook? I just got my son a very similar notebook with same processor and video card. He's having trouble running "City of heroes" and is having trouble with it.

Any suggestions?

2:07 PM  
Blogger tammo21 said...

This may depend on the amount of memory you got with it. Mine has 512 MB, so if you have less it may have a problem. Also, Nvidia is coming out with driver updates pretty frequently, you may have an older driver installed.

What I noticed right away on mine is that the 3d video is displayed differently on the flat panel display than it is on a CRT monitor. I don't know why it is different, maybe drawing the image is just done different, or it may be the vidya card. Mine is an ATI, so if you have that, check their website instead of nvidia.

Also what I noticed (and this may be just the game) is that one game has a delay between sounds and video (beyond good and evil.)

I think it's simply a matter that mobile processors are built different from regular ones, so you're bound to notice differences. Try also visiting the city of heros website to see if they have had this problem noted before. More than likely they will have a fix for you.

1:43 AM  

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