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Performance help on laptop

BAdrien112BAdrien112 Member Posts: 11
in Dark Age of Camelot
Hey, My main rig runs Daoc perfectly with everything turned up, but my laptop (1.4 ghz on board graphics 512 ram) runs it a little sluggish (even with everthing turned off/down, classic textures(also char models) and I know a laptop isnt the perfect rig to play an mmo on, but I was wondering if anyone had any tweaks that might help the performance a little. or anyone that uses a similar laptop that has the same issues and found a way to improve the performance:).



Thanks.

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  • uncusuncus Member UncommonPosts: 528

    To help you, someone would need more info...What brand, CPU chipset, shared a/V chipset, etc

    There are many tweaks for laptops listed on the NWN2 site - I know I had to get the latest drivers [always a good idea! Only downside is you need to know the manufacturer/chipset used] and run a spoof program to make NWN2 think I had a dx9 card even though I had plenty of video RAM [it requires 128M and I have 256M but an older chipset]

    I googled laptop tweaks and got quite a few hits; I'd suggest that you try that, too.

    One last suggestion: there is a free program, Belarc Advisor, that will tell you what drivers, chipsets, etc you have if you don't already know.

     

    Good luck

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  • JulianDracosJulianDracos Member UncommonPosts: 1,528
    If the ToA client still works you can use that.  Other than that you need to upgrade.  Minimum specs are 1.8 gig and 512mb ram with a real video card and not an intel on board chipset.  Run ToA, get some more ram are really the only things you can do to help things out. 
  • BAdrien112BAdrien112 Member Posts: 11

    i only have the epic edition client sadly. It works quite ok now but A little performance gain is always welcome, specially in cities the performance leaves somethings to wish for.

     

    so are there any general tweaks that could bring a bit of performance gain? I looked on google but didnt find much else than updating my drivers(which I did).

  • WerppaWerppa Member Posts: 211

    this isn't exactly a tweak, but if you can afford extra 512 ram, it would be of some help for you

    "I actually cook my meat with nothing but my burning hatred for vegetables"

  • BAdrien112BAdrien112 Member Posts: 11
    sadly I cant afford such an upgrade, and I dont know if the laptop motherboard even supports any more sticks of ram.:(
  • WerppaWerppa Member Posts: 211
    Originally posted by BAdrien112

    sadly I cant afford such an upgrade, and I dont know if the laptop motherboard even supports any more sticks of ram.:(
    I meant that you should buy one 1 gig stick of ram, that costs even more, like 70-80€ in here . But you can sell your present memory and get some money from it too

    "I actually cook my meat with nothing but my burning hatred for vegetables"

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